In the last few months, many people around have been feeling an increase in their anxiety, and may not even know the cause. If you're nervous, your mind can run away trying to find justifications, and that can lead to a downward spiral - nerves leading to fear, combining into anxiety, imagining awkward situations, and so on.

You don't always need to know the causes to feel anxiety, and as it turns out, many times you don't need to know the causes to solve it either. In this episode, Kurt goes through some perspectives and techniques to help you address, overcome and start to transmute your anxiety and other emotional problems into something beneficial.

Topics discussed include:

Pranayama or breathing exercises

The importance of being open-minded

Dropping anxiety like a weight

Coping mechanisms and thriving strategies

Tech detox

Meditation - mindfulness, seated, walking

The way you think

The power of language over your state of mind

Black and white thinking

How to stick with a habit

How resistance to anxiety causes you to become more anxious; and

Having a little faith

Hatha Yoga Pradipika

https://jivamuktiyoga.com/fotm/hatha-yoga-pradipika-0/

Does the Earth's Magnetic Field Cause Suicides? New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13769-does-the-earths-magnetic-field-cause-suicides/

Meta-Health and EFT Tapping with Sam Neffendorf

https://theparadiseparadox.com/205

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

https://amzn.to/2ofx2T1

Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/

Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

https://amzn.to/334mSDE

Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins

https://amzn.to/2M8XV32