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#563 - Dr Russell Kennedy - Why You Feel So Anxious All The Time

Modern Wisdom

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The Alarm Anxiety Cycle

The mind is a compulsive meaning making machine. It makes up these, you know, what ifs, worries, warnings that make sense of this alarm. This is mostly subconscious below your level of conscious, and you're just doing it automatically. And then you blame the worries for the pain, but it wasn't the worries, the worries of the byproduct of the pain. The pain is actually this alarm that's been stored in you since you were a child.

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