Why You Feed Anxiety and How to Stop It
Life Coaching with Christine Hassler
Christine Hassler
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2016
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel anxious? I suspect your answer is yes – you may even be experiencing it right now. You're not alone. Here's the good news: it is 100% possible to ease and actually eliminate anxiety or at the very least dramatically reduce it. I explain and give you lots of tips in this coaches corner.
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| 0:00.0 | So I have a question for you, do you ever feel anxious? I suspect your answer is yes. You may even be experienced in anxiety right now. |
| 0:11.0 | Well, you're not alone. One of the most common things I hear from people that |
| 0:15.1 | they want to change is about anxiety. They want to feel calm and stop feeling so |
| 0:19.0 | anxious. Well here's the good news. It's 100% possible to actually ease and eliminate anxiety by being present. |
| 0:27.0 | I guarantee you that if you're feeling anxious, it's because your thoughts are drifting towards the future. |
| 0:33.1 | Anxiety, from my point of view, is not even a real feeling. |
| 0:38.0 | It's the physiological response to the mind's temptation |
| 0:41.4 | to think about things that have not yet happened. |
| 0:44.0 | It's really impossible to be anxious if you're fully in the present moment. |
| 0:48.0 | Try it, and I'm certain you will find that any time you experience anxiety |
| 0:52.0 | it's because your mind is |
| 0:53.2 | anticipating some future event over which you have no control. I understand that |
| 0:58.7 | staying fully present is difficult, especially when we feel like there is so much to figure out. When our minds are |
| 1:06.0 | constantly in figuring it out mode, our intuition becomes muted. To turn up the volume |
| 1:11.0 | of our inner voice and feel more peace, we have to turn down the volume |
| 1:14.9 | of anticipatory thinking that produces anxiety. |
| 1:19.2 | Releasing anxiety requires practice since most of us are in the bad habit of checking out of the here now. |
| 1:24.2 | But here is more good news. Each and every moment offers you another opportunity |
| 1:29.3 | to practice being present. Well how can you practice being present? I have a lot of tips for you. So first |
| 1:35.7 | just begin by tuning into your breath. Focusing on your breathing is the easiest |
| 1:41.5 | way back to the now. So let's try it right here right now together. |
| 1:46.9 | So if you're not driving close your eyes and take a nice deep inhale. |
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