One man, one mission. To rid the world of chronic anxiety once and for all, the anxiety guy Dennis Simpsick shares his personal transformation from living a life filled with overwhelming worry to becoming a full-fledged positivity machine.

A leading authority in generalizing anxiety, Dennis gets to the truth of your mental health challenges and sets you on a path to transforming each and every area of your life.

Here he is, the one and only, the anxiety guy.

Friends, welcome to episode number 303. You're listening to the anxiety guy podcast. I'm Dennis Simpsick and I'm grateful that you can join me here today so that we can talk about some powerful techniques to halt anxiety in the moment.

Before we get into it, know that the health anxiety program is now out at the anxiety guy.com, 12 weeks to freedom from health anxiety at the anxiety guy.com.

And warriors, if you've read my second book, F coping, start healing, you understand how important it is, not only to re-perceive situations and relationships from our past, not only to heal our traumas, but to make sure that in the moment of fear, in the moment of hesitation,

in the moment of deep levels of sensitivity and anxiousness, we do something. And when we do something, it sends a clear message to the inner child, subconscious mind.

That guess what? It's time for an upgrade, an upgrade in how we believe, an upgrade in how we see this situation or a situation that may be coming up in the future.

So what's important today is that we take these techniques and we begin using them, not just for this day or this week, but we get very, very good at mastering these techniques.

Because to tell you the truth, my healing came because of mastery. That word is very important, because there are too many people out there trying different things, never committing to them, never putting their heart into them, and therefore being too unconscious to get anything from the technique.

So I want you to raise your consciousness, raise your awareness, and understand how powerful these techniques can be to halt the momentum that is leading to anxiety.

Technique number one is snap near the ear. All you have to do is snap your fingers and say here and now, here and now, as we get back in touch with our five senses, as we snap and say here and now, it's right beside our ear, and it's in the moment we realize that we're going down that rabbit hole again.

That rabbit hole of catastrophic situations and stories that we keep telling ourselves.

And so when I snap my fingers beside my ear and say here and now, we are conditioning ourselves to live a mindful life, therefore not be a product of our past conditioning.

Here and now, we are coming back to now, we are no longer concerned about a future we're trying to control, but rather we are giving up control to an energy that is much greater and much more intelligent than we are.

The more control you give up, the more control you gain in the long run. This is powerful. So technique number one is snap near the ear, snap your fingers near your ear and say here and now, here and now.

Technique number two, low and slow breathing rhythm because shallow breathing leads us to consciously sorting for what could go wrong.

Instead of sorting for what could go wrong, why can't we see the middle ground in any given situation?

Why can't we work with the very things we're trying to get rid of and are fearful of?

When you think low and slow, you are taking control of your physiology. You're not allowing your physiology to dictate how you perceive and think about things.

Low means breathing from your stomach area and slow means depth. When I breathe from my nose, I find that I am activating this calming response within me called the parasympathetic.

When this calming response is activated, I find that it's very difficult for me or anybody else to go back into an anxious state.

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