How to regain calm when anxiety hijacks your brain

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

🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

#505: Anxiety frequently hijacks our thinking with a fearful narrative. For example: “what if” thoughts or worst-case scenarios. The body responds as if those fearful thoughts are true—because it doesn’t know the difference between a real threat and imagined scenarios. When the body reacts it makes the mind more disturbed and we get caught in this fear cycle that feels frightening and completely takes over our body and mind. Here’s what happens: Anxiety starts with a trigger, a symptom or sensation, a message, or news item - something that strikes a vulnerable place in us. The mind zooms in on it and instantly creates an anxious narrative. A story around the trigger that makes it instantly more solid, or a potential threat. As soon as the mind creates its story, and it can happen in an instant, the body reacts. Our heart beats faster, our breathing becomes shallow, we might feel lightheaded, or shaky. And these sensations in the body feedback into our mind and further disturb the mind. This repeats and builds into a fear cycle that feels very real and very hard to bear. Until we know how to stop it. A mind in balance can respond calmly to incoming information, but a mind that’s already challenged by anxiety will react rather than respond. It lacks the resilience to process the incoming information and respond in a self-supporting way. The good news is that we can change this. We can learn to break the fear cycle. Listen in to learn more. For help with calming heightened anxiety, you can join Ananga for a new Guided Tapping Session video on Patreon at patreon.com/anxietyslayer

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my
0:18.3	sweet friend and co-host Ananga Severe. For almost 11 years we've been coming together weekly from Kent and Lelandaw to share
0:25.6	anxiety slayer conversations with you and often answer listener questions from our inbox and
0:30.8	Facebook page as well as our private Facebook group.
0:34.3	Together we share a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.
0:39.0	We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who supported the podcast on Patreon this month and to our new patrons Claudia and Stacy. Thank you so much.
0:49.0	If you find the Anxiety Slayer Podcast Supportive, we hope you'll consider becoming a patron.
0:54.8	Learn more at Patreon.com forward slash Anxiety Slayer.
1:00.3	Today we're speaking about how you can regain calm when anxiety hijacks your brain, something that we're both very much aware of.
1:09.0	Hi Ananga, how are you?
1:11.0	Hi Shen, I'm good, thank you.
1:13.5	It's good to be back with you after taking some time off
1:17.0	this summer that we both needed,
1:19.1	and I'm grateful for the time,
1:22.0	and also very grateful to be back together with you talking about something that could there be anything more important than learning how to regain calm when anxiety hijacks your brain. This is an excellent subject.
1:36.4	So thank you for putting our notes together today. I really appreciate it.
1:40.0	So glad we're talking about this.
1:41.3	Yeah, I think it's really an important topic. It's something
1:45.8	that's been on my mind over the last couple of weeks as I've been listening to and responding
1:51.2	to clients and noting some conversations and concerns in our group and just hearing
1:56.8	people around me at this really unusual time, with so many challenges, many of the same and many different depending on individual circumstances.
2:07.0	And I'm hearing and seeing a lot of elevated anxiety
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