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A Better Way to Solve Problems & Why Anxiety is a Good Thing

Something You Should Know

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What Is Anxiety?

If our stand stowards anxietyis that we need to immediately suppress it and get rid of it, we lose an opportunity to understand what we are struggling with. Anxiety is a call to tune in to those concerns, because you can't ignore it. It's made to be unpleasant so that we sit up and pay attention, kind of like a smoke alarm. The flip side of anxiety is hope, because it sends us into the future where both the bad and the good are possible. We don't need to go to a therapist with our daily anxieties to also think of anxiety say, hey, there are things i can leverage about this amazing emotion that actually we've evolved to have.

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