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What this book knows

Anxiety is the primitive 'monkey mind' overriding your values — and you can retrain it by acting expansively, not safely.

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mind-and-cognition

The monkey mind cannot do risk assessment. When it hits the fear button, we are as simple and single-minded as our forebears. Anxiety is a call to action.
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Reasoning with the monkey mind is impossible. It learns by watching what you do. If you want to stop being ruled by the monkey, you are the one who will have to change.
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self-and-identity

As long as I am certain, as long as I am perfect, and as long as others are okay I will be safe. Each assumption overestimates the threat and underestimates our ability to cope.
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Nearly every situation throughout your day pits your values against the monkey's. All situations, no matter how routine, are opportunities to practice your new mind-set.
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transformation

Coping with her son's illness turned out to be an opportunity for Samantha to change basic assumptions she had operated from her whole life.
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When you open your body with your breath and make space for pain, you are also allowing more room for pleasure. When you cultivate an expansive mind-set, resilience follows.
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