Transform Your Anxiety Into Your Greatest Strength | Dr. Wendy Suzuki

90% of the population identifies as suffering from anxiety. Okay, so 90% are affected by anxiety. Is it possible for us to change the way we think about anxiety and and start to heal our brain, heal our mindset around the topic of anxiety so that it doesn't affect us or consume us in our life. Is that possible?

Absolutely. It is possible. And I think the first step is to realize that anxiety and our stress response, which is causing all those negative feelings, evolutionarily, that is a protective mechanism. It is necessary for our survival.

It was and it is necessary. So it was evolved so that if there is a lion coming at us or a dangerous situation that you're in, that you automatically have that increased heart rate, that increased respiration. All the blood goes to your muscles so you can run away. Our problem is that in this day and time there's not a lot of lines coming at us, but there's all the worry that we see every single day when we look in the newspaper and look at our Instagram feeds. And that worry of a possible terrible thing that might happen, that also activates our stress and anxiety systems.

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