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The 2-Minute Test That Proves You're Creating Your Own Anxiety · Bye Bye Panic

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  [SPEAKER_00]: The root cause of your anxiety isn't that sensation or symptom.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not the physical sensation, it's not the panic attack, it's not even that intrusive thought or the de-personization de-relisation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The root cause of your anxiety and what's keeping this alive is actually two things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Number one, it's your focus and number two, it's the belief and meaning you have.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: around those sensations and I'm going to prove it to you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be doing an experiment in this video that's going to show you how you are keeping your anxiety alive and this one thing will help begin to reverse it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So make sure
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  [SPEAKER_00]: to watch this video in completion, make sure to understand it, and do the exercise along with me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's get it started.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, it's important to understand that when we hear that we are causing our own anxiety, it could feel very callous, it could feel like we're very misunderstood.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And what I want to share in this video is not that you are causing it intentionally.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You are doing what any rational, logical person would do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're feeling a sensation, so you're focusing on it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're trying to fix it, why wouldn't you?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Any other issue you have in life, you go and focus on it and you fix it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If your car breaks down, you open the hood, see what's going on, you fix it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so what you're using is you're using that same part of your brain.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're using that same logic and you're applying it to your anxiety.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not recognizing that when it comes to the realm of anxiety, when it comes to internal work, the focus actually magnifies it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It amplifies it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Think about focus as a magnifying glass.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not only do you amplify the problem, but what happens is that it makes it just bigger than it is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so what happens is that you are looking at it and it's this big when really,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: the issue is just this big, but because this is experience, because you're looking at it a subjective way, it feels much bigger than this is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I wanna run you this experiment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What I want you to do is close your eyes and focus on that one symptom or one sensation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It could be whatever you want.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It could be that tingling sensation, maybe it's the breathlessness, maybe it's the brain fog.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to focus on that sensation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Notice it, stare at it with your mind, analyze it, try to figure this out, why is this here?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What does this sensation mean?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Does this mean something is wrong?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Keep staring at it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What you're naturally gonna find is that that symptom begins to increase.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you seeing it when you're focusing on it, when you're analyzing it?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The symptom begins to grow.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you notice that when you just hyper focus on it, you start analyzing why is it's happening to me?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What did I do to deserve this?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What if this is something else?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When you start going into that fixed mode, naturally, that symptom, that sensation begins to grow.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What's naturally happened is that you now you've put a spotlight on it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Your attention has been put on it and when your attention is put on it, it naturally grows.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now this isn't just random.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the cycle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is why many people can say, Sean, I'm not fighting the symptom, but the symptom is still there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sean, I'm not fixing the symptom and I'm living my life, but it's still there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, one of the things they haven't focused on is the focus element.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, it's not about not fighting, it's not about not fixing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's about being aware of the five F principal we teach in BiBib panic, which is fixing the symptom, fighting the symptom, getting frustrated by the symptom.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: fearing the symptom, and the one people neglect focusing on the symptom.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Recognizing that when you focus on it, it's gonna grow.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, you might be thinking, okay, well, how do I stop focusing on it?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's important to understand the mechanics of your mind right now, the mechanics that are at play.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: See, what happens is that you feel a sensation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're not sure why it's happening, and so you're brain naturally fills in the gap by creating meaning around it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So that digest of issue is there because maybe there's a gut dispiosis going on.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that brain fog is there because you know, whenever you might have smoked some weed and had that panic attack, maybe it was laced with something.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But just because you have that sensation doesn't mean the meaning is true.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, the brain is fitting it with meaning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's basically interjecting its own meaning into it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, it can do this from your past history.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you had a friend or family member that went through something, and so what it tries to do is it tries to fit in the gaps.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When it creates meaning, well, the meaning enforces danger.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So the digestive issues is the dyspiosis and you need to get that fixed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The brain vulg is because of the chemical imbalance or different parts of your brain messed up, or whatever theory you have.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so the meaning creates danger.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now when it's dangerous, your nervous system is designed to focus on it, put attention to it, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If there's a tiger, well, the tiger is dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So keep your attention on the tiger, because the tiger moves and you don't see it and you're not paying attention, it can get you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you see the mechanics that play?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And what happens that this reinforces it?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so when you focus on that symptom and you're viewing it as dangerous, when you're assigning meaning that,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, what it does is that it begins to amplify the symptom.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, how do you reverse the cycle?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What we're gonna be doing in other experiments?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I want you to close your eyes and focus on that same symptom.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, when you're focusing on that symptom,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Recognize that this symptom is just an offset of anxiety.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What you're really dealing with isn't anything dangerous, it's just uncomfortable.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And really what you're dealing with is just adrenaline being burnt off.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When you're feeling that heart palpitation, if you're feeling that brain fog, if you're dealing with those even intrusive what it thoughts, that's just your brain burning off adrenaline.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean anything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, not only is it harmless, but there's no long-term consequences.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All this is is just an onset of a sensitized nervous system.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All you need to do is throw it under the anxiety umbrella.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to do anything about this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, your body knows how to heal this better than you consciously do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All you need to do is step out of the way.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And recognize.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing wrong.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's no imbalance.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're perfectly healthy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is just a sensation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Completely harmless.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You just didn't know why you were having this sensation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But now that you know, it's just from a high-percensity nervous system, you don't need to do anything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, you can just let it be there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you wanted to go out and have fun with friends, you can do that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And you can let the feeling come.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you decide to stay home and do absolutely nothing, that's okay too.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The feelings can stay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The symptoms will go away on its own and you don't need to do anything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you notice, as you're doing that experiment, you feel a little bit of lightness?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you feel like there's not much you need to do?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you notice that as you do that, you don't hyperfocus on it as much?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You start recognizing that this isn't dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The meaning around your sensations is that it's harmless, that it's not dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's uncomfortable, but there's nothing actually wrong.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you notice how your attention naturally goes back?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you see how it's softens?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and you might even notice it's still there, but you'll notice that it's softens.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And as you do this for a longer time, well it's softens more and more.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And over time it subsides.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And you start recognizing, oh wait, it's not here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then maybe you have some stressful situation and then it kind of pops up a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But you know it's not dangerous now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so what's happened really, it's not that the symptom is there or not.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's not the point.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The point is is that the relationship between the symptom is changed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's no longer about trying to analyze and trying to think it's dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's recognizing that this is just an offset of anxiety.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're completely healthy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing to do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so what's happening is that as you do this, you'll notice that the adrenaline's burning itself off.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now your body has a chance, finally, to burn off all this excess adrenaline.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: See, when your nervous system is sensitized, your body's naturally creating more adrenaline.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But your body needs to burn it off.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But as it burns it off, it can manifest itself in symptoms.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So when you're burning off access to adrenaline, you can feel that in our palpitations.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can feel that in dizziness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can feel that in breathlessness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can feel that in truth thoughts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But what happens is we try to fix that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We try to block it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So the body can't burn off the adrenaline.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And what happens is the body just reinforces it by creating more adrenaline.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Because you're running away, you're resisting, you're adding pressure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And fundamentally what's happened
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and you're creating meaning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the solution isn't by distracting or avoiding.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As acknowledging the elephant in the room, hey, this symptom is here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: but it's also recognizing the second part, which is attaching meaning to it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, this is harmless.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As you recognize it's harmless, as you start interpreting it as harmless, well, the focus doesn't need to go there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The focus will naturally divert into other things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I hope this experiment helps.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you want to know the principles of healing, make sure to check out this master class right here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for watching.