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Aidan Ross was the winner of season number twenty eight
of NBC's The Voice. We've Got That Conversation Ero dot
net a r Roe dot net. The podcast is called
That Voice. Enjoy your exploration, Hey, zero, And this is
vocal D fragging. Vocal d pragging is asking yourself the
questions and then questioning the answers. We spend so much
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time asking other people, well, what would you do? What
do you think of this idea? Did you like that?
We ask them, but we don't ask ourselves. You switch
that around. You're going to learn more about yourself. This
is vocal D fragging. It doesn't matter where you travel
these days, everybody's talking about stress, that we live in
a very stressful world, that everything is stressing you out, workplace, stress,
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home stress, it's all around us. But I have to
ask this question, is it really stress or the energy
of everybody else's stress that's getting to you. It's an
honest question because how many times have you been in
a situation where you were in a fantastic mood and
all of a sudden, within about two or three minutes,
boom down you go and you're feeling that pressure of
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stress and anxiety and My question at that point in
time would be, well, what just triggered you? What just
puts you in a state of mind where you have
lost that fantastic attitude. One of the things that helped
me through stress and anxiety was this thought, winning is
a choice by Sobidim in martial arts. He used to
tell me all the time. He said, your bad mood
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is a choice. You having anxiety is a choice living
the life of winning being the choice. You now have
a different perspective of how to deal with your anxiety.
And if it didn't prove to be working at that
point in time with that, then he would say, can
you control it now? Then move on? See, we create
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our own anxiety. But now I'm at the stopping point
where I'm asking, do we really create the stress in
our lives? Or is it that we're walking with a
group of pe people who don't understand how to get
their stress under control. It really is a moment where
you've got to ask those questions and question those answers.
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Now I am a daily writer, I'm also a dfrag writer.
I am constantly holding a writing instrument in my hand
so that I can better understand the situations of growing
forward and growing outward. There is another thing to think about.
It's really cool that we are moving our lives forward,
but are we growing outward? Most people don't. They don't
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know how to grow outward. That's called building up your community,
getting involved with everybody so that if you do have
pockets of anxiety and stress, we can work together as
a community and not a one person team. So ask
yourself that question sometime. Am I really truly feeling stress today?
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Or is it somebody else's energy that happens to be
in my mind, body and soul because I just happen
to be a man that picks up on other people's
bad mojo. Are you really stressed out or is it
somebody else's energy getting inside of you? And if it
is somebody else's energy, then you can shed that once again.
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I'm a daily writer. I do my vocal defragging. I
take my walks through this beautiful forest in South Charlotte,
doing things exercising, sitting in a quiet room with no
music on, no TV on, just sit in a quiet room, meditate.
There's so many different things that you can do to
get your anxiety and stress moving out of you. But
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my first question is How did it get in you?
Is it you or is it the environment? Ask yourself
the questions, question the answers. I'm Ryl, and that's vocal
defragging
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