Can Mindfulness Help With Anxiety?

A lot of research shows that mindfulness can be very helpful with anxiety and so I want to bust a myth that mindfulness the goal there is not to experience no anxiety or not to get rid of your discomfort but instead it's more of a willingness to feel that discomfort and then do the thing regardless. So when we're in a socially anxious moment in a conversation our attention naturally turns inward. We use that spotlight analogy again so our spotlight tends to turn inward and highlight either our anxious thoughts like oh am I boring her or highlight our bodylike how do I stand to look more casual what do I do with my hands. When we consciously focus outward on that task at hand on the other person then our