Thanks for listening - hope you enjoy this one as much as we did making it!

So I was with some mates of mine last night and the company they work at has just announced massive changes and they’re all facing uncertainty about their jobs and their future. So naturally we spent the whole evening talking through everything.

The parts of the conversation that stuck out to me was where people we're talking in impressive detail about future eventualities where things just don't turn out well for them. This got me thikning about the effect that these non-existent futures were having on them (i'm just as prone to this by the way). I was reminded of Dr Joe Disoenza's thinking/feeling loop (which we've talked about before) and how what we contemplate creates biochemical reactions that affect us physically and create real feelings - and then our brain responds to these feelings as an indication of our state of being. That's the loop and i'm worried my friends will get stuck in that while they're contemplating these negative outcomes. At the very least they're putting themselves through the stress of this negative eventuality - imagine if somehow a negative reality transpires - they will have been through the pain over and again!

So this episode is me talking all of this through and trying to work out what's going on here.

Thank you for your feedback on Monday's episode about me dealing with my daily anxieties after quitting my job - it's so much appreciated. Keep it coming and let me know what you think about this subject - do you agree with me? Do you think it's best to prepare for the worst? What's your approach to dealing with uncertainty about your future?

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Nice one :)

Anton