412: 4 Ways of Being Present and Relieving Stress and Anxiety
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Gina discusses the importance of being present for the process of relieving stress and anxiety. Gina points out undesirable factors that inhibit our stress and anxiety relief, including: attachment, excessive forward thinking (future focused), imaginary thoughts and negative expectations.
Gina suggests four action steps to be in the present and cultivate mindfulness:
1) Observe events without judging them (anxiety stems from judgment)
2) Integrate mindfulness activities into your daily life (walking dog, mowing the lawn, gardening, at work... fully immerse yourself to what you are doing)
3) Let go of expectations (expectations are often not positive)
4) Mindfulness meditation (meditation fosters new default of being present)
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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 | Today we'll be talking about four ways that you can be present while you are relieving stress and anxiety. |
| 0:40.3 | Being present is such an important part of being able to move our nervous system back to its natural state of peace and calm. |
| 0:50.0 | And one of the places where we move ourselves away from being present is when we become attached. |
| 0:57.0 | Attachment to the material world and trying to accomplish more, doing more. It can really prevent us from focusing on |
| 1:08.1 | being and being in the present. I spoke the other day yesterday actually with an former group coaching member who we were just checking in. |
| 1:20.8 | It's been a while since we had touched base and I'm actually going to have him on the show in the future |
| 1:26.8 | But we were talking and I asked him what do you see coming up for you in the future? What how do you go forward from here? And he really thought about it. |
| 1:36.0 | Took some time. I took a few breaths and he said |
| 1:39.8 | I'm going to just be being. I'm going to do being. And I was just thrilled to hear that because |
| 1:48.8 | he didn't need to have any great big goals in front of him to be chasing and he didn't feel the need |
| 1:55.9 | to be doing, overdoing. |
| 1:58.1 | He was very happy with his life and accomplishing quite a bit doing things that he hadn't been able to do for years because of his anxiety. |
| 2:06.5 | But he wasn't chasing it. It was all coming from the being, the being that he is. |
| 2:16.7 | So we can look at it as goals and forward thinking, |
| 2:19.7 | having its place, but it can also really start to flare up our anxiety. |
| 2:27.6 | Being driven, it can be good, we can be someone who accomplishes a lot is the person who gets things done, but focusing too much on the future. |
| 2:39.0 | And getting ourselves out of the present moment can cause more anxiety by worrying about things |
| 2:46.9 | that don't or will not happen. It gives us that future thinking. We're living in the future and when we notice that we're doing that we need to bring ourselves back into the present moment. |
| 3:02.0 | Anxiety is so deeply rooted in our imagination. |
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