324: How To Apply The Relaxation Response To Anxiety

The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

Gina Ryan

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Stress, anxiety causing so much dis-ease and the relaxation response has the ability to reduce that distress if we learn how to apply it! Episode Quote: We learned that with self-care, we can effectively treat any disorder to the extent that it is caused by stress or mind/body interactions. Indeed, we can partly relieve or cure most of the common complaints patients bring to their doctors’ offices, simply by applying self-care techniques. -Herbert Benson Check out this AMAZING way to have coach contact time twice a month with lots of other goodies included! http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/group-coaching/ Hope to see you in the Group Soon :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.0	Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety,
1:07.0	panic and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life.
1:21.0	Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches podcast. Today I want to talk a little bit about the relaxation response
1:25.6	about getting into our parasympathetic nervous system and a big part of this
1:30.7	involves accepting. We talk about facing accepting, floating, letting time
1:38.7	pass, as Claire Weeks would put it, and the part of accepting is being able to be with it accepting. Can you
1:50.2	feel the relaxation in that? Can you when you say it can you feel your shoulders go down a little bit? Yes, I accept it's a surrender. So I want to talk about where we shift when we are accepting and what this is that's going on because we can do this purposefully just like we can begin to pay attention, we can begin to have
2:17.2	awareness, we do those things on purpose, we can also stimulate our parasympathetic nervous system on purpose gently in the sense of accepting of surrendering.
2:31.0	What we're moving toward when we choose to accept when we're in anxiety or accept our anxiety is stimulating the
2:41.6	parasympathetic nervous system.
2:44.0	Again, we have our fight or flight part of our nervous system,
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