Ep 199. Five Senses Scan

Not Another Anxiety Show

Kelli Walker

Therapy, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Health, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Anxiety, Claireweekes, Counseling, Brenebrown, Research, Meditation, Panicattacks, Science, Selfhelp, Stress

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Join Erica as she walks through one of her favorite mindfulness practices from way back when she was in the very thick of anxiety!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Not Another Anxiety Show. I'm Erica Latham. And for those that celebrated the holidays, happy holidays.
0:20.5	Today we have one of my personal favorite mindfulness exercises.
0:24.5	This one helped me cut through some of the bewilderment when I was in the thick of those super sticky, somatic, or bodily symptoms.
0:32.8	We've discussed in the show that there's no way to beat or win against anxiety about a thousand times.
0:41.5	For reasons far above my pay grade and better articulated in many of our previous episodes,
0:47.8	it's just because we're designed to be anxious. What's that amazing meme that says something like, we're 90% water,
0:56.6	so we're basically just cucumbers with anxiety? That. So as we know, there's no way to trick
1:04.6	ourselves out of a panic attack. Sorry, Charlie's. But anxiety can be tricky.
1:12.5	It's not always a panic attack, is it?
1:15.3	Sometimes things can feel like more of a constant buzz.
1:19.0	Sometimes that buzz feels like an overwhelming storm.
1:22.8	Sometimes it's just the hum of unease and anything in between. And the kick in the shorts is that anxiety can
1:32.9	change just because it feels like it. And this isn't to make us all sweaty and thinking that everything's
1:40.2	out of our control. No. I say that just as a reminder that anxiety is an emotion. And say it with
1:48.5	me now, emotions mean in motion. Even if we had the air quotes cure for your anxiety today,
1:57.9	it would change before dinner time. It's just the way anxiety works. So, what can we do then
2:05.2	to make things a little more manageable? Or as Kelly often says, how can we work with anxiety differently?
2:13.2	Well, we practice. We practice sitting with emotions and letting them wash over us. We practice gratitude.
2:22.1	We practice movement that's in line with our values. And we can practice being present and grounded.
2:29.5	We love these ones. The good old refrigerator trick comes to mind, you know, where you close your
2:36.4	eyes and you try to list all the things in your refrigerator. Mine personally is full of holiday
2:42.8	cookies, old eggnog, maybe some ketchup packets. It's great practice and one of my favorites.
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