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Keyword thought keyword emotion many times we have thoughts or emotions that are negative. We get triggered and we learn behaviors based on our association with that trigger or with that stimulus. We then try to determine why we have that trigger and what caused it. That is not productive to go down the rabbit hole of why. You think that when you have that answer you can fix it but many times you will get more anxiety going through that process price. Think about that and say what if the y doesn't matter? It doesn't matter what triggers worrier anxiety but it does matter how you react to it.

— from The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy) · Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer.

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The first is a shift of mind: worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles, it only steals today's peace, and do it enough and you string a whole "anxiety necklace," one bead of dread after another. So stop interrogating why you are anxious — that is its own rabbit hole; what triggered the worry matters far less than how you answer it. The second kind works on the body: when the wave rises, do not fight it but let it come, get curious about it, and watch it crest and pass — and help the body along by breathing slow and deep from the belly, which stimulates the vagus nerve and tells the heart and lungs to stand down. — The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)

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