Radio Headspace Befriending Your Anxiety: How Compassion Loosens Its Grip
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Sep 26, 2025 Explore the idea of befriend your anxiety instead of battling it. Discover how anxiety can signal unmet needs and foster reflection, as shared through personal experiences at a meditation retreat. Learn techniques to approach anxiety with compassion, treating it like a scared child. Rosie offers a simple practice to acknowledge and listen to anxiety without the urge to fix it, paving the way for deeper connection and self-trust. Embrace this gentler perspective to loosen anxiety's grip.
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Reframe Anxiety As Part Of You
- Anxiety can be invited in rather than fought, reframing its role in our inner life.
- Seeing anxiety as part of you opens the possibility of listening instead of resisting.
Meditation Retreat Brought Up Anxiety
- Rosie describes a silent meditation retreat where stillness brought up intense anxiety.
- She initially resisted the feeling and questioned why meditation seemed to make her worse before she reconsidered her stance.
Anxiety Might Be Trying To Join You
- A teacher suggested anxiety might be trying to 'join' you rather than stop you, which shifted Rosie's perspective.
- That idea helped Rosie see anxiety as an internal signal with a potential message instead of an external enemy.