Running Your Pain Away with John Thornton

Shrink For The Shy Guy

Dr. Aziz: Social Anxiety And Confidence Expert, Author and Coach

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

How To Free Yourself From Anxiety And Pain

Ever wondered how our emotions, especially anxiety, play a role in our physical well-being? Dive into this riveting episode where Dr. Aziz engages in an eye-opening conversation with the renowned mind-body pain specialist, John Thornton.

You'll discover:

=> The intricate link between the emotional weight of anxiety and the manifestation of physical pain.

=> The controversial question: Do knice people experience injuries more frequently?

=> Empowering strategies to challenge both your pain and the underlying fears, providing a path to liberation and wellness.

Come along for a journey that promises to blend psychology, physiology, and transformative insights. It's time to confront your fears, understand your pain, and reclaim your vitality! Don't miss out!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy.
0:05.0	This is the show for you if you are sick and tired of being held back by fear, self-doubt,
0:10.0	social anxiety, shyness, anything that's stopping you from you being you.
0:15.0	I'm going to share the most powerful tools and resources that I've been discovering over the last 15 years on my
0:21.9	journey to eradicate social anxiety and instill confidence, first in myself and then in every
0:28.5	single person that I meet on my journey. You're going to learn these tools and how to apply them
0:33.1	in your life now so that you can become the most free, powerful, bold, authentic version of you.
0:44.7	Welcome to this episode of Strength for the Shag Guy.
0:47.5	I'm very excited to be having a conversation with someone that I've personally learned
0:51.2	a lot from him and his partner, Laura, John Thornton,
0:55.5	who is the co-founder of the pain cure clinic in Colorado, which has helped many, many people
1:02.3	free themselves from ongoing chronic pain, including significantly helping me in my life to become
1:09.8	a lot more active and able.
1:11.5	And that's something we're really going to dive in in today's episode is how to be more active.
1:15.4	Now, when you're listening to this, you might say, wait a minute.
1:18.7	I don't know if I have pain.
1:20.2	I don't know if that's my thing.
1:21.8	But what I've found is that people with anxiety and social anxiety and niceness, excessive niceness, are creating a lot of tension in their body.
1:31.3	Their fear system is overactive.
1:34.3	They might also have a lot of self-criticism and perfectionism.
1:38.3	And all those things produce attention in our nervous system, which actually can create quite a bit of pain in a variety of ways.
1:46.4	Oftentimes people think they're injuries. I have a quote, bad back or, oh, my old knee is acting
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