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23. Patience and Thalamic Gating

The OptimalWork Podcast

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How Does Anxiety Affect You?

The more you dread a sensation, the more your thalamus is priming to notify you completely of it. The less you dread it, the less you think about it,. It just happens and you barely then notice it. People who are really avoidant of anxiety is either like they're anxious or they aren't. That's when we help them to be curious about the sensation.

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