Automatic Defensiveness: How Health Anxiety Keeps Your Body in Overdrive
Health Anxiety Podcast Show
Dennis Simsek
4.8 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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In this episode of the Health Anxiety Podcast, we dive into the body's automatic defensiveness and how it keeps those with health anxiety in a perpetual state of overdrive. Learn why your body reacts with muscle tension, rapid breathing, and heightened awareness, even when there is no real danger. We'll explore the fight-or-flight response, the impact on your nervous system, and how these unconscious reactions contribute to chronic health anxiety. Tune in to understand the cycle and discover ways to start breaking free from this constant state of alert.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome you beautiful, peaceful warriors to another episode of the Health Anxiety Podcast Show. |
| 0:10.0 | I cannot express my gratitude enough for those listeners to this podcast, and I really hope that it is guiding you towards inner peace and better places, my friends. Today, we are diving deep into |
| 0:24.4 | defensiveness. Now, with defensiveness comes a number of different elements that we must become |
| 0:31.5 | aware of. And towards the end of this podcast episode, I'm going to give you a key practice that will help to subside the defensiveness going on in your body starting today. |
| 0:45.5 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:47.8 | Welcome to the Health Anxiety Podcast show being brought to you by The Anxiety Guide.com. I'm Dennis Simsec, your host, and together |
| 0:59.1 | we are going to navigate the health anxiety healing process, replacing fear with knowledge |
| 1:06.3 | and transforming uncertainty into strength. Let's embark on a path towards a healthier mindset and a healthier |
| 1:15.2 | life. Let's go. Okay, my friends, let's start this episode with a little sip of tea or water |
| 1:26.0 | if you are drinking something right now, and I'm going to go ahead and take a sip of tea or water if you are drinking something right now and I'm going to go |
| 1:30.2 | ahead and take a sip of my lemon tea. It's very important that when we go through these |
| 1:38.6 | episodes that we do not rush through them, we understand the information and we don't allow that defensiveness |
| 1:48.5 | within us to lead us because then we're stuck in the fight or flight mode, right? So I hope |
| 1:55.0 | you're having a progress-filled day and I hope, as mentioned, this podcast is helping you to some degree. I want to talk about the |
| 2:04.6 | defensiveness which becomes automatic in the body today, and I want to give you a key practice |
| 2:10.7 | towards the end of this episode that will really, really help you. First, let's go over the |
| 2:16.4 | fighter flight mode. So if you're stuck in |
| 2:19.9 | fighter flight mode, the body becomes hypersensitive, right? And you can feel that. Reacting as if |
| 2:26.3 | constant threats are always present. And we find ourselves even like in our bedrooms with heart |
| 2:34.0 | thumping and whatever host of bodily sensations |
| 2:38.3 | and symptoms and we're going well there's no real threat here right however we haven't really |
| 2:43.8 | sent that message across to the body that there isn't a threat just by being present in a particular environment doesn't mean that the brain can adjust its old patterns. |
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