Anxiety and Me: I freak out when I try and relax

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Education

4.4 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2015

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In this week's podcast we are responding to a question from our inbox:"When I finally sit or lay and try to relax, I get a freaked out feeling, because I don't have something to keep me busy. My body is so tense and when I try to relax I can't! I'll get the release of tension or feel a pain and then I freak out."- See more at: http://www.anxietyslayer.com/journal/anxiety-and-me-i-freak-out-when-i-try-and-relax.htmlJoin Shann for Pulling the Plug on Panic -- a free online event that will help you to break the cycle of stress and anxiety, so you can live a life you love. You will receive tips, resources and powerful tools to support you on your journey to anxiety free living. Register Today! http://www.pullingtheplugonpanic.com/ShannV

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life
0:14.7	through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your
0:19.9	anxiety.
0:29.0	Welcome to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my partner and great friend Ananga Severe.
0:34.4	We come together weekly on Skype to share anxiety slayer sessions with you and answer
0:38.5	listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page.
0:41.8	And together we're armed with a powerful collection of techniques to reduce
0:45.1	anxiety. We invite you to visit the Slayer store in our extensive library of
0:51.0	digital offerings including our most popular quick anxiety stopper and the
0:56.0	EFT for anxiety program.
0:59.4	Today we're answering a question from our inbox that we hear quite often but we haven't talked about in a while.
1:07.4	And it's really about what happens when we try to relax.
1:12.0	And our listener says, when I'm trying to relax I get a
1:14.8	freaked out feeling because I don't have something to keep me busy and how does
1:20.9	she support herself when she's feeling that way?
1:25.0	It's a very common thing when we're suffering from anxiety.
1:28.0	What tends to happen is as soon as we try and relax, we're left on our own with our mind and we start to become hyper aware of
1:37.2	sensations in our body and very often they're the very sensations we don't
1:40.9	want to be aware of we might feel some ache or pain or dizziness or some anxiety
1:46.3	symptom that is causing us further anxiety and we like it when we're busy. We like it when
1:51.2	we're not thinking about it and we have a variety of
1:55.5	different ways that we tend to use to not think about it. And I was reading a
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