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Anxiety Is a Habit — Here's How to Break It

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

Anxiety Habit Loops

Our brains are set up to be as efficient as possible. And we set up habits as a way to learn how rewarding a certain behaviour is, and then forget about the details. We don't change it until we up date that reward value. So if i learned the reward value of cake when i was five, and i'm just mindlessly eating cake when i'm forty five, it's probably not so helpful. The only way to up date the reward value is to pay attention, is to bring weerness in. You want to disenchant youre anxious actions. It doesn't keep your family members safe or solve a problem,. Do whatever they do without distracting them from their own

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