This week on the Anxiety Slayer Podcast, we're discussing how you can learn to retrain your mind to be more positive.

Welcome back to the podcast. I'm Shan van der Leek here with my good friend and co-host in Angasivere.

We've been producing free podcasts for you since 2009.

And again today we're going to talk about how to retrain your brain, how to retrain your mind from

automatically going to

searching for and going to more positive outlooks in life.

Hey Ananga, how you doing?

Hey Shen.

This is another excellent topic that came to us from one of our

listeners and I'm glad we're gonna dig into it today because we all whether we

know it or not have this natural tendency to lean towards negative thinking

versus positive thinking. Yep the mind is wired towards a negativity bias. That's how our programming works. We have a

definition here to get us going. A negativity bias makes us subconsciously give more psychological significance to negative experiences than positive ones of the same intensity.

It's an amazing thing, isn't it, how our brains and how our minds work and it often happens to me when I'm getting some research together for something or we're getting ready to record a show and I'll be reading somewhere else or listening to somewhere else and then that same topic comes up which always makes me feel it's good and timely and relevant and this morning I was listening to a wonderful lecture with a monk who I very much respect

and he made this point that our mind has a negativity bias and the way he described it was if

we hear something negative we tend to believe it instantly we don it. It just goes right in if we hear

something negative about somebody else, about a situation, about us,

something maybe about our health, something we read in the news, anything negative,

straight in no filters.

And when positive information comes that way, we might question it, not give it so much validity, or it might pass

us by altogether because it's not how our filters are set. So we're all wired to give more weight to negative rather than positive experiences.

And it's so unfortunate because we miss out on so many beautiful experiences that we could

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