Episode 182

Anxiety Mastery

During the pandemic and even beforehand, many people around have been feeling an increase in their anxiety, and may not even know the cause. If you’re nervous, your mind can run away trying to find justifications, and that can lead to a downward spiral – nerves leading to fear, combining into anxiety, imagining awkward situations, and so on.
You don’t always need to know the causes to feel anxiety, and as it turns out, many times you don’t need to know the causes to solve it either. In this episode, Kurt goes through some perspectives and techniques to help you address, overcome and start to transmute your anxiety and other emotional problems into something beneficial.
Topics discussed include:
Pranayama or breathing exercises
The importance of being open-minded
Dropping anxiety like a weight
Coping mechanisms and thriving strategies
Tech detox
Meditation – mindfulness, seated, walking
The way you think
The power of language over your state of mind
Black and white thinking
How to stick with a habit
How resistance to anxiety causes you to become more anxious; and
Having a little faith