422: How To Use the Discomfort Of Anxiety To Your Advantage
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Gina describes a technique in which anxiety sufferers take advantage of the discomfort they experience in order to know the constant peace resident within them. According to this wisdom, turning toward the discomfort is where the anxiety sufferer's power lies. Gina further advises to stay aware of the language used in self-talk, staying present and experiencing the joy in every moment, no matter what.
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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 about how to use the discomfort of your anxiety to your advantage. |
| 0:39.2 | So how can we consider that we have this horrible feeling of anxiety and how this could be an |
| 0:45.6 | advantage but I'm telling you attitude is everything. So let's get going on |
| 0:51.5 | how we can turn toward the discomfort of our anxiety, |
| 0:57.0 | because this is where our power lives. |
| 1:00.0 | We are not doing anything for ourselves if we don't move in the direction of being able to accept and to actually be with this anxiety. |
| 1:13.6 | As uncomfortable and as unwanted as it is, turning toward the |
| 1:17.8 | discomfort again is where our power lies. |
| 1:21.2 | Turning toward the discomfort of the fear, the sensations, and so forth, it's what we need to do. And it feels like a natural reaction to want to get away from it, to get rid of it, to just have it be all over. |
| 1:38.5 | But it is in that urgency that we set up more of the fight or flight in our body. |
| 1:48.0 | The more we want to run away from it, the more we want to just get it done quickly, sweep it out of the way, let's move on from |
| 1:56.3 | this. |
| 1:57.3 | That just tells our mind and body that there really is something wrong and we got to get |
| 2:02.3 | rid of it right now. You know often we believe |
| 2:06.4 | that we are accepting and fully being with what is. But we really hold back just in the moment that the discomfort is the greatest. |
| 2:18.4 | And this is what Claire Weeks referred to as the last 1%. This is where we put up with what is going on. We put up with |
| 2:29.4 | what is versus accepting or surrendering to what is. |
| 2:36.2 | To put up with the discomfort, |
| 2:38.2 | the fear, or the sensations, |
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