Habits That Keep You Stuck in Fear and Anxiety. How to Overcome Anxiety

Main subjects

AnxietyAnxiety, stress, and inner calmHabitFearStressF/Friend / friends

Main threads of the conversation

• 0:00Why doesn't anxiety go away? Most people's main mistake
• 0:42The main action for removing anxiety
• 1:35The unnoticed habit that makes you anxious
• 2:53You create anxiety in yourself and others—how do you stop it?
• 4:49What can you do in the moment when anxiety takes over?

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• 00:01

  My name is Alexander Volchek, and here on my YouTube channel, I talk about true personal development and expanding your potential.

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• 00:35

  So the first action is to start looking at the causes, rather than even trying to resolve the anxiety itself.

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• 00:51

  I can try and want to change this anxiety as much as I like, but if I don't examine what is really causing it, I'll simply be addressing entirely different issues, as in the example of a cold house.

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• 01:33

  On a deeper level, the question is whether a person wants to look at whether they themselves—their actions and behavior—are causing anxiety in other people.

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• 02:38

  I remember my mother telling me something when I started living in my first rented apartment. It was in 2010, when we moved from Minsk to Moscow. She said, “You never know how long you'll be renting this apartment.”

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• 02:55

  Any temporary apartment can become a permanent one, so treat it as permanent.

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• 03:56

  Someone knows they might have problems at work.

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• 04:42

  This wasn't simply preparation. It was constantly saying it aloud, a kind of impulse and anxiety that kept occurring.

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• 04:50

  It wasn't some inner sense, and it certainly wasn't intuition, because she was ready to die every year.

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• 05:56

  Don't try to get rid of the worry. Tell yourself, “Listen, this is an interesting time. I can live through this worry, and I will live through it. I'll observe this state.”

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