EP 0109 - Relax, Breathe and Focus : A Beginner's Tutorial and Exercise

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Drew Linsalata

Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Health Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Anxiety Help, Panic Attacks, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Ocd, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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For full show notes and a link to download this tutorial as an MP3, visit https://theanxioustruth.com/109. HOW DO I RELAX, BREATHE, AND FOCUS???? I've been asked to do something like this for a while. With some extra nudging from a friend, I took 15 minutes to record this little beginner's relax, breathe, and focus tutorial. This isn't my usual thing, but hopefully, it will be of use. This episode will take you through the basics of what it looks like and feels like when you sur...

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0:00.0	Welcome Dudes and Dudettes. This is episode 109 of the anxious truth.
0:04.0	Quick introduction before we get right into the tutorial.
0:07.0	What you're going to hear is about a 15 minute very basic beginners tutorial on focus, meditation, relaxation, and breathing.
0:17.5	I recorded this about six months ago and I put it up in my Facebook group as sort of an experiment
0:22.2	and it's been widely popular.
0:24.0	So people have asked me to put it out as a podcast episode and put it on YouTube and that's what
0:27.6	I'm going to do.
0:28.9	So this will teach you, it's about a 13 to 15 minute exercise that will teach you how to
0:34.1	relax your body how to properly breathe and how to selectively focus where you
0:38.9	want to focus rather than on the scary sensations and thoughts that come along with high
0:44.1	anxiety and panic. It's a very beginner introduction on what it actually feels like
0:49.3	and looks like when you surrender, soften your body, and go non-reactive to panic and anxiety.
0:56.7	A lot of people are really confused as to what I literally mean when I tell people to do that.
1:01.4	So if you take about 13 minutes and listen to this in a quiet
1:04.5	place and use it to practice, you will get the hang of what it is that I'm talking
1:09.0	about. So this is going to teach you proper breathing. It's going to teach you
1:11.9	to find tension in your body and release in it. It's going to teach you to find find tension in your body and release in it.
1:14.1	It's going to teach you to bring your focus back to a point
1:17.0	that works for you rather than focusing inward
1:20.1	on all the fear.
1:21.2	So hopefully this helps. If you would like to find it elsewhere, it will be here
1:26.2	as this podcast episode, it's on my YouTube channel, and you can go to the Anxious Truth
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