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Being Well Podcast: Relaxing Anxiety During Stressful Times
November 9, 2020

If you live in the United States – and probably for many people who don’t – relaxing anxiety during stressful times, especially weeks like this one, is becoming more and more necessary for well-being. Today Dr. Hanson and Forrest talk about relaxing anxiety, weathering the storm, and taking in the year as a whole.

Key Topics:

  • 1:30: Where do we want to allocate our attention?
  • 5:00: Rational, appropriate stress and anxiety. 
  • 8:00: The cost of ‘negative’ emotions. 
  • 12:30: Practices of calming stress. 
  • 14:45: Giving yourself grace, and accepting some amount of stress. 
  • 17:40: Deal with the bad, turn toward the good, take in the good. 
  • 22:15: Seeing what is true. 
  • 26:45: Being happy when others are not. 
  • 36:40: A practice for calming and centering. 
  • 44:45: Learning from the hard parts of practice.

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