How to Understand Anxiety and See Threats Clearly
Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
Shownotes Transcript
We’re living in an anxious time, and part of the reason we’re anxious is because there are very real challenges we face both individually and collectively. But we’re also affected by the natural tendencies of the brain, which is easily influenced by fear and threat. On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson focus on how we can see threats clearly and be the “right amount” of concerned.
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Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
1:20: Why is it hard for us to see threats without excessive worry?
3:35: Transcending evolutionary influences toward fear
6:30: The last time Rick took LSD
10:45: Discerning what’s valuable in our anxieties, and leaving the rest
15:45: Forrest’s apartment fire story
17:35: Disagreements in evaluating a threat between people
21:55: Probability of risk
25:00: Practical techniques to assess threats with more clarity
29:30: Existential acceptance
33:30: Help for anxiety about anxiety
37:15: Recap
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