511: Understanding Your Nervous Systems Fear Cycle
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses fear in the context of the physical nervous system. Claire Weekes' fear-adrenaline-fear cycle is explored, as well as the understanding of anxiety as a state of over-sensitization. Gina offers tips and suggestions to help listeners break out of this cycle and prevent it from happening.
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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. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, loa, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | In today's episode, I want to talk to you about understanding your nervous systems fear cycle. I spoke in an |
| 0:37.3 | earlier podcast about having the understanding of what's going on with you as being really helpful. |
| 0:46.0 | And like I said, you don't have to understand big complex things and we don't need to take this to a real technical level, but we do well when we can |
| 0:58.8 | understand in some way what is happening to us and our own body and how this is all connected, our |
| 1:07.6 | thoughts and our body. |
| 1:09.8 | And so I wanted to discuss the nervous systems fear cycle a little bit today. |
| 1:17.0 | Pain and anxiety have a lot of things in common. |
| 1:22.0 | Just like when you have pain, the over-sensitized nervous system is on a spectrum. |
| 1:29.5 | You know when you are in pain, they often ask you the scale of 0 to 10 where are you on that scale and you |
| 1:38.7 | learn to kind of judge where you are is your pain worse is is it better, how far? So it's a good thing to be able to |
| 1:46.2 | check into once in a while. We can do the same with our oversensitized nervous system system it too is on a spectrum and we could say that |
| 1:56.1 | was from zero to ten also. With some people on one end, the zero end, simply able to ignore their sensations and their |
| 2:08.4 | sensitized feelings that come up, They are just easy with it. It doesn't it doesn't get to |
| 2:18.6 | them as it will to somebody who's extremely oversensitized on the other end of the spectrum at a 10. |
| 2:28.0 | And that would be being overwhelmed by everything, the wind blowing feels too much. Many things are too |
| 2:38.9 | much to handle, overwhelmed by life, unable to cope, unable to do many daily living activities and chores. |
| 2:48.1 | And so we can see there's the zero and the one, two, three where we're able to kind of ignore what's happening, a sensation or a feeling, |
| 2:57.7 | because we're all getting these feelings. We all have things, and I'll just throw in a personal example here of when I was when I was |
| 3:07.2 | very anxious I have to tell you I used to think I was having a heart attack when I would have gas bubbles that were |
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