406: Feeling Less Anxious With Change
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Gina talks about how to deal with an unavoidable part of our existence in the world: change. Many people suffer from increased anxiety relating to the uncertainty they experience when facing major changes in their lives. Listen in for suggestions on how to minimize your fear of change and maximize your ability to cope and thrive when major changes approach you in your life.
How to use your mindful awareness during those inevitable moments of change so you can feel less anxious:
1) Ride the waves of change
Change arises naturally — but it can generate discomfort and overwhelm in the process. When we acknowledge that strong emotions are present, we have a better chance of navigating what life throws our way.
2) Bring up your resilience
When adjusting to new circumstances, it’s easy to become frustrated with ourselves. Let go of feelings of disappointment or anxiety with a gentle shift. Be kind to yourself: Remember, you are not the only person who is adapting to something new. With this resilience, we can learn, grow, and recover a sense of well-being during a time of change. One way to have a reminder of your personal resilience is to star in your journal when you have been through a challenge and found yourself on the other side intact and even better off than before
3) Soothe anxiety around uncertainty
Most of us have a list of identities we associate with — be it a job title, a family role, or a citizenship. When these things change, we often feel we are losing the characteristics that define us. Rather than getting caught in a fixed idea of who we ought to be (or used to be) be willing to have room for something new...something more. See the uncertainty as part of life that we all encounter and that it is not personal.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches |
| 0:09.3 | Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | In today's episode, I want to talk a little bit about feeling less anxious with change. One of the things in |
| 0:36.6 | life we know is always going to be happening is that everything will eventually change. |
| 0:45.0 | Change is a constant, and it's as constant as our breath. |
| 0:50.0 | Even our breath is always changing. If we look at that, we can see that we are not |
| 0:57.3 | stuck, we are not frozen. It is changing again, bringing it back to the breath. It is changing again bringing it back to the breath. It is coming in. There's even a pause that you may not even be able to distinguish at first, but then there is the acceleration. And it's always changing. |
| 1:18.3 | It's just like the waves in the ocean. They are changing. they are coming, they are going, no one wave is like the next. Same with |
| 1:28.8 | our breath. It has change. It comes, it goes, and even minute differences in each breath, we are not stuck. |
| 1:40.8 | So we can have hope that our circumstances if they are not optimal at this time |
| 1:48.8 | that they will change and we want to remember that these circumstances, if they're uncomfortable, they will change. |
| 2:00.2 | If they are joyful, blissful, those two will change. |
| 2:04.4 | It's coming to terms with this, with the idea that the good moments will change |
| 2:10.1 | and so will the stressful moments. But where we get hung up with anxiety panic is we are in this place of attaching to the negative. We are so sure this |
| 2:25.0 | this anxious moment, this panic attack will be here forever. |
| 2:29.6 | So I want to reassure you that change will happen. |
| 2:34.0 | No, change happens in our life too, right? |
| 2:36.4 | Life throws us changes. |
| 2:39.4 | And for many of us, it can be difficult to accept the uncertainty of change. What we do is we get |
| 2:47.1 | we're in the fear of what will come next and how can we get out of that? |
| 2:52.4 | With the anxious mind and how can we get out of that? |
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