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Your Anxiety Questions, Answered | Judson Brewer

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Anxiety Is Driven Like a Habit

Anxiety is driven like a habit. So those pieces that feeling of anxiety can trigger the mental behavior of worrying. And then they start to see that cause and effect relationship, which is, Oh, when I worry, I actually feel worse. This feeds back and makes me more anxious. The second step is asking this very simple question: What am I getting from this? You can look at it from a neuroscience lens or an ancient Buddhist psychology lens. We must what give them to our brains.

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