How to Overcome Fear Using Curiosity (Daily Update 22)

Ever wonder why tightness in your jaw and shoulder are linked to stress? Did you know that you can use curiosity to change your relationship to anxiety and fear? The Irish novelist and poet James Stephen’s wrote, “curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” Learn how to do this today.
Resources:
1. Subscribe to the Dr. Jud channel (click the red SUBSCRIBE button) to be notified of future daily updates, and join a free weekly "office hours" anxiety Q&A session on Mondays at noon eastern US (12:00 EST)
2. Build your awareness using mindfulness practices, like those in the free "Breathe by Dr. Jud" app, available on both Apple and Android devices.
Apple: apps.apple.com/us/app/breathe
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For more resources on anxiety, including free mindfulness exercises, visit www.drjud.com or follow me on Twitter @judbrewer or Instagram @dr.jud.
3. The University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre is offering weekly mindfulness classes with an associated podcast to support people during the COVID 19 pandemic. Further details here: oxfordmindfulness.org/online-.... Visit the Free Mindfulness Project for a growing library of free talks, videos, online courses and live practice sessions: www.freemindfulness.org/covid19. Also, Mindful Leader is providing Free Live & Online daily meditation & support groups: www.mindfulleader.org/free-me.... Dr Ron Epstein explores different ways we experience uncertainty, and how cultivating curiosity, presence and connection can help in his blog: www.ronaldepstein.com/blog/2020/4/1/uncertainty-by-ron-epstein.
Jud Brewer MD PhD ("Dr. Jud") is an addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is the Director of Research and Innovation at Brown University’s Mindfulness Center, and associate professor of psychiatry as well as behavioral and social sciences at Brown’s School of Public Health. His work has been featured on 60 minutes, at TED.com (4th most viewed talk of 2016), and in media outlets across the world. He is the author of The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).

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These videos are brilliant. Thank you so much. Would really appreciate something more on overthinking e.g. ruminative thinking style or 'low-level catastrophising

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This is excellent! Just learned about you yesterday from one of my wise sons.

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I'm so happy to find you here and I'm listening to your audiobook too "Unwinding Anxiety".....i have soo much to learn from you..thank you so much!!

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Thank you so much for these videos. Watching this daily really helps me. I liked the Tigger quote today about “how well you bounce”. Made me think of resilience. I would like to hear more on that topic. How do we bounce back after a setback? Covid-19 is a big one and there are small setbacks daily with new information on the virus and it’s effects on people and the economy. How do we keep bouncing back?

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My anxiety causes me to puke and just be super nauseas basically 24/7. This COVID situation has made it so bad that I have been eating once every few days if that and am so I’ll. Is there a way I can make that physical symptom less intense?

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Embrace your physical symptoms. Don't try pushing them away. It's judging them and pushing them away, the problem is. Same with emotions. You've probably been at it for years, judging your emotions as good or bad, and only validating the feelings you think are nice, pushing the rest away. Validate anger, envy, hurt, sorrow, all of them, and watch the anxiety lift, in due course.

[@mryan4452]

Oh and also, don't "get down" because you feel angry, hurt, envious etc. If you do you're only judging them, not validating them. Embrace them all. They hurt alot less than you think they will. It will take a few weeks of validating them before youll notice positives.

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