Dr. Alia Crum

All the ways in which she's a little clammy, all the ways in which she's a little nauseous, all the ways in which she might, you know, feel her heart racing.

Maybe she's going to pass out, right?

We all have these symptoms like all the time, right?

This is what's, you know, so interesting about our bodies.

If you ask yourself to pay attention to your body, you realize sometimes we do feel nauseous.

Sometimes our heart races.

It's like happening all the time.

Now she has a reason to find that.

So that belief changed her attention, changed her emotions, anxiety off the charts, fear off the charts.

It probably changed what she was motivated to do.

I'm assuming she didn't take many flights for many years.

And physiologically, those symptoms get created.

So the beliefs were intended to protect her.

The settings of the mind were intended to protect her, but they were actually creating the reality that she feared most.

So what's beautiful in her example is that you don't need 10 years of therapy necessarily to kind of shift the settings in your mind.

Now, don't get me wrong.

I'm all for therapy.

And sometimes we do need many years to explore the origins of our beliefs.

But in her case, she realized, oh, I don't need that setting anymore.

Thank you, body, for trying to protect me.