Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your

anxiety. to be back together with you again for another Slayer session and the chance to address

another question that we received from one of our listeners.

I wake in the middle of sleep most nights at almost exactly 2 a.m. feeling hot and panicky.

The heat rushes up my body and I have to throw my bed covers off.

Sometimes I feel like I have to get my bed covers off.

Sometimes I feel like I have to get out of my bedroom

or even out of the house.

My heart races and I feel very bright.

After a while, I feel cold and can usually get back to sleep eventually. Do you have any advice on what might be causing this and what might help?

Right question and something that you and I can both relate to the two or three

a.m. wake up I've been suffering from this myself and had to really apply some

slayer skills to get myself straight which I'm glad to say I've been able to do.

According to traditional Chinese medicine every major body organ is more active for a two-hour period in every 24-hour cycle.

So between 1 and 3 a.m in the morning is liver time.

It's so common for people to get woken up at that time feeling

heart, anxious, overwhelmed, even claustrophobic and the liver can definitely be

part of that. The liver is really affected by heat and it really affects us when it's overheated.

So one thing we can look out for are things that affect eating the body, things like alcohol, spicy foods, tomatoes, citrus fruits and then

behavioral things, stress, rushing, irritability or even anger. All these

things can come up at us in the night and wake us up with

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