629: How to make choices that support anxiety recovery

This week on the Anxiety Slayer podcast we’re discussing how choice creates your life experience and how to practice making choices that support your recovery from anxiety.

 

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Notes from this week’s episode:

Checking in and choosing differently

Noticing your emotions and the choices they provoke.

Checking process: is this choice going to bring me more stress or more peace?

Inaction is a contributor to anxiety

  • Ayurveda - inertia is related to fear - the three qualities of nature sattva, rajas, tamas

  • “The doing cure” 

Outside influences on how we make decisions

  • Parents, authorities and role models

  • Friends and social groups

  • Social media

Past influences on how we make decisions

  • Trauma and memories

  • The way it’s “Always” been done

  • Looking for differences now vs. then

Keys to upgrading choices

  • Strong desire / motivation

  • Support

  • Practice

  • Mindfullness

Knowing what works for us

When we want to learn to do something, it’s human nature to look at how other people do it, but what we need to know ishow we would do it. What serves us well?

We might learn from others, but that  works best alongside unearthing our own way forward, and that begins with knowing our nature.

If we know ourselves, we can discover what works for us and what doesn’t and save ourselves a lot of stress, time and energy.

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