Dr. Martha Beck (Oprah's Life Coach): I Nearly Died, So I Stopped Lying! Why You're Anxious & How To Fix It! Fix Your Childhood Trauma!

When we lie our bodies get very weak. For example Stick your arm out. Say I love fresh air. I love fresh air. Now I want you to do that while lying, and the lie I'd like you to say is I love to vomit. I love to vomit. That's so weird. I love fresh air. I love to vomit. Why is that? It's because of the way the brain is structured. And there are many tricks. Do you want to do some more? Martha Beck PhD is a Harvard-trained sociologist and world renowned life coach whose notable clients include Oprah Winfrey. Her neurological based techniques have helped individuals cope and adapt to an anxiety addicted world.

So our brains are biologically pre-programmed to be anxious. Taught by innocently believing lies by socialization or trauma. Socialization says you're not good enough, you should try harder, that was a bad choice, all kinds of things. And trauma tells you, oh my god, everything's dangerous all the time. And then it creates horror stories that haven't happened yet to make you safe. But the thing about anxiety is if you get stuck in the anxiety spiral, it just keeps getting worse. For example, I have memories and a lot of physical scarring from sexual abuse, which started at five years old. And then by the time I was 30, I had depression and anxiety and bedridden with autoimmune diseases, thinking I could just kill myself. But I can tell you with one hundred percent certainty it is possible to trick our brains and shut down anxiety. So if I'm feeling anxious, what would you recommend that I do? Here's one of my favorites. Quick one before we get back to this episode. Just give me thirty seconds of your time. Two things I wanted to say. The first thing is a huge thank you for listening and tuning into the show week after week. It means the world to all of us, and this really is a dream that we absolutely never had and couldn't have imagined getting to this place.

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