How to Overcome Anxiety for Good: A Practical Guide to Quieting Your Mind and Rewiring Your Brain

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Podcast Host: Neeti Keswani
Podcast Guest: Mike Wood

Neeti Keswani: Welcome to the podcast. This is your space for self-improvement, wellness, and mindset mastery. Here, luxury isn't about things. It's about the freedom to live authentically and heal deeply along the path. I'm Neeti Keswani, author, storytelling coach, and we help businesses bring their message out so it's authentic inside out and you're able to reach your right audience.

Today we are going to explore a success story with Mike Wood. Mike Wood is the creator of the "Learn to Love Being You" 10-week program. He has helped countless people break free from limiting beliefs and quieten the mind to cultivate true self-love. His story is one of resilience, healing, and lasting success, and he's here to share practical tools for anyone ready to move beyond survival and into freedom. Welcome, Mike.

Mike Wood: Thank you for having me.

Neeti Keswani: So lovely to have you, Mike, on this call in this discussion. We have some set of questions regarding anxiety for you. Tell us about your story, your background and how did you get into coaching people on anxiety relief.

Mike Wood: Well, I grew up with anxiety. You know, I had a rare form, I still do, I guess, a rare form of dyslexia. And so when I graduated high school, I could read at about a second-grade level. I figured out cool little ways and little tricks to get myself through, navigate school and graduate with a bunch of C's and D's. But it left me with a lot of anxiety. It made me feel like I was less than. I thought everybody was more intelligent than me. And I had all these programs inside that told me constantly that I was less than, that other people were smarter than me, that I was stupid. Just a constant barrage of thoughts that lived with me on a daily basis until I was in my late 40s and I learned why I was programmed that way and how I was programmed. Once I understood how the subconscious mind works, I was able to go back and kind of reframe all that stuff with love and compassion and make that go away.

Neeti Keswani: Right. And then your shift into anxiety coaching, is that a genuine natural process for you to get into something because you have overcome it?

Mike Wood: Yeah. You know, when I turned my focus from the outside world and turned it inward and had the tools to understand how my mind and body worked, I started to see pain in everyone. It was almost a curse for a long time because the same pain that I was holding on to, I could see it in everyone. And so, it was instant pain and, you know, sorrow for everyone. So, I wanted to help everyone. If I'm feeling great all the time now for no reason, why can't everybody else feel the same way? I learned really quickly it doesn't work that way. Somebody has to want to. You can't push it on them. So, it's been an evolution for me. And then once I got to a certain place with my own health and mental well-being, people started just coming to me. And so, it's kind of evolved in a slow, organic way that's been beautiful. And so, once I was able to help one person, it was almost like a drug. Now, I just want to help everyone that is willing.

Neeti Keswani: Lovely. So now tell us, what are the practical steps that you possibly help people with when you are helping somebody dealing with anxiety? What are the three things that you look forward to when you are sort of starting your process?

Mike Wood: So the first thing is just to help people understand where peace and joy is found. Peace and joy is found in the present moment. You know, when we stop thinking about the future, where anxiety is, and we stop the noise coming from our past, that's where depression is found. And so, just some basic fundamental understanding of where peace is found. But the trauma from the past