The role hypochondria plays in preventing weight loss is not talked about much, but it ought to be as it speaks to the many ways that anxiety shuts down our attempts at making a better life.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Why logic and reason fail in the emotional realm
- Why hypochondria's true aim is not to make you afraid, but to make you hopeless.
- Why living a better life can be seen as a threat to our survival.
- How trying to fix anxiety or rid ourselves of it actually deepens the delusions.
If you can't think your way out of anxiety, what is a person to do?
- How to use reality as a grounding force even when anxiety and panic are part of your reality.
- Why emotions are actually more objectively real than our thoughts.
- How acceptance allows calm presence to the most "uncomfortable" emotions.
- How presence and acceptance prevent us from getting psyched out and falling for anxiety's spells.
- How nighttime anxieties can result from very different stresses than the topics pm anxiety is focused on.
- How to use non-engagement to "unplug" anxiety.
- How to giving attention to pain minimizes suffering.
- How to distinguish between site pain, resistance pain and embodied pain.
Why accepting hard things doesn't make them suck any more than they do without acceptance and how it actually lessens our suffering.
- How awareness and acceptance during hard times allow us to avoid more pain and notice more opportunities.
- How to take attention away from anxiety while focusing it on the underlying emotion.
- Why many of your anxious thoughts are actually the product of trying to "think" your way out of experiencing anxiety or an uncomfortable emotion,
- How seeking to remedy anxiety exhausts you and makes you more susceptible to anxiety.
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