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Don't Feed the Monkey Mind

How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear, and Worry

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Don't Feed the Monkey Mind

By: Jennifer Shannon LMFT
Narrated by: Jennifer Lund Jorgens
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The very things we do to control anxiety can make anxiety worse. This unique guide offers a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based approach to help you recognize the constant chatter of your anxious "monkey mind", stop feeding anxious thoughts, and find the personal peace you crave.

Ancient sages compared the human mind to a monkey: constantly chattering, hopping from branch to branch - endlessly moving from fear to safety. If you are one of the millions of people whose life is affected by anxiety, you are familiar with this process. Unfortunately, you can't switch off the "monkey mind", but you can stop feeding the monkey - or stop rewarding it by avoiding the things you fear.

Written by psychotherapist Jennifer Shannon, this book shows you how to stop anxious thoughts from taking over using proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mindfulness techniques. By following the exercises in this book, you'll learn to identify your own anxious thoughts, question those thoughts, and uncover the core fears at play.

Once you stop feeding the monkey, there are no limits to how expansive your life can feel. This book will show you how anxiety can only continue as long as you try to avoid it. And, paradoxically, only by seeking out and confronting the things that make you anxious can you reverse the cycle that keeps your fears alive.

©2017 Jennifer Shannon (P)2017 Jennifer Shannon
Anxiety Disorders Mental Health Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Spirituality Meditation Health
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The monkey concept I could not connect to. I can see how it would be helpful to others though.

Some great tips, but cannot connect to the concept

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I always knew my anxiety was holding me back in life, however, it wasn’t until I started glistening to this book that I realised how life SHOULD FEEL.

I have referred countless people to this book as I know my life is already expanding. The freedom I now feel is incredibly priceless to me. I used to fear and have an imagination that would literally stop me dead in my tracks. Now, I have started to expand and live from a place of feeding the monkey that supports me to live happy.

Please read this book, it will help and you’ll read through it thinking it was written just for you.

Changed my life!

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This book provides concrete and practical ways to deal with your anxiety and rewire your brain

Helped me immensely

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Now I know how to not feed the monkey minds. I enjoyed this audiobook and shall practice these methods in everyday life.

Useful!

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This makes a lot of sense and simplifies how to navigate our often complicated minds! Highly recommend this if you want to try a practice that will make a true difference in how you live your life. I’m very grateful I found this book. Will certainly be one I listen to over again to try to master its teachings.

Truly awesome book!!

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...encouraging a worrier to write out in vivid detail their greatest worry is risky business. My greatest worry is my child will be kidnapped and sold to a paedophile ring...among others. It happens, yes it's statistically unlikely, but it does, so it's not even irrational.

Imagine taking that to its extreme in "vivid detail".

No thanks.

The mind of an anxious person can go to some terrifying places and the feelings are not bearable, nor are they "welcome-able", no matter how good that might sound in theory.

Some great strategies but...

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Anyone who experiences anxiety or worry would strongly benefit from this book! It explains very well why we are anxious and how to move past anxiety and worry

Fantastic!!!

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I think this book is more suited for people with OCD. I'm sure it will be great for people with this condition.

Not for me

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