#322 - Predicting Reality
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Benefits of Mindfulness for Anxiety
Anxiety is a classically negative emotion that people find mindfulness can be very helpful with. It's possible to feel the anxiety, just feel the mere physiology of the butterflies in your chest. And you can notice that consciousness is just this open space in which everything thoughts and sensations are appearing all by themselves. The moment you shift to that openness and just mere awareness, they lose their psychological implications. Anxious feeling no longer has any more meaning than indigestion or itching on your skin.
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