Writing Through Your Anxiety
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Hello and welcome to buy the mints for breakfast. Your one stop shop for all the vitamins you will ever need to help amplify your life. I am here today to Premier the new Siri's that I'm adding on to my vitamins for breakfast podcast, which is called a dose of fresh air. You've been getting your vitamins every single day. You've been amplifying your life. Now it's time for you to get a dose of fresh air. What is a syriza about? Well, this series is pretty much very centered around my same belief off the human need to address their inner problems and to come to terms. Things and Teoh religious find ways to go through the everyday chaos and within the everyday chaos, a big emotional we tend to feel a humans is anxiety have been realizing that anxiety has been the leading factor to look cripple somebody in their process. And I'm here to provide you some outlets for you to be able to cope and understand your anxiety and then to find ways Teoh, you know, work through it. Like I said, um, this is going to be pretty much providing you with exercises that you can use on your own time toe help. You kind of go through the motions and not allow yourself to be overwhelmed by the feeling of anxiety. So let's get started. So anxiety is a part of your emotional pool. You'll feel happiness, sadness. You feel anger. You feel frustration, and you're gonna feel anxiety at some point in your life. And some emotions, however, are less comfortable than others. And as I'm sure you know, anxiety is one of the uncomfortable emotions to feel. So I am here to provide you with a writing exercise that's going to help you untangle the knot of anxiety and help you identify and accept what triggers your anxiety. Let me be clear. Anxiety does not define you. It's just a part of you. It is a part of the whole equation of you, so don't allow yourself to be defeated by its power. So go ahead and grab a pen and paper pencil whatever you want. Let's get to writing, so want you to start by writing down the moments you feel anxious. For example, I feel anxious at the gym. I feel anxious meeting new people. I feel anxious, making big investments. I feel anxious traveling to a new place, So I want you to write down the moments that make you feel that anxiety that trigger that feeling. You can go ahead and pause the podcast while you write for If you wrote already good, let's go ahead and move onto the next one. I want you to write. What about that moment triggers the anxiety. So again, for example, I feel anxious at the gym because people will think I'm unfit. I feel anxious meeting new people because people will think I'm weird. I feel anxious making big investments because it might fall through. I feel anxious traveling to a place because I don't know anything about this place I'm traveling to. So you started off by writing the moments where you feel anxious, and then you dissected it further as to what it is exactly about the moment that causes the anxiety. Now I want you to write a few things that you can think of that really deep bunk. This thought that really exposes this thought for not being as true as your mind is making it up to see. So, for example, I feel anxious at the gym because people might think I'm unfit. But people could also think that I'm inspiring. People might be so focused on themselves that they might not even notice me. People who think that about me are, honestly, just insecure themselves. So that's really a way for you to kind of change the narrative on something and not make it so much of a negative, a negative story in your mind. It allows you to kind of step back and say, Hey, that could be true But this could also be true because you don't know either way, So why not permit yourself to have 22 versions of the story? So that's gone with another example? I feel anxious meeting new people because they might think I'm weird. But what if you think I'm awesome? What if they admire that I take so much pride in my personality? What if I focus more of what I think of them versus what they think of me? At least it gives me a break of being so much in my head. There's different ways for you to think about things. It allows you to kind of take a break from the overthinking make it less about you and more about people around you. So I don't want you to rush through this. Remember, you can always pauses. Hit play. Once you're ready, we're going to continue. I want you to pick from your list of anxious reactions, and I want you to write about a time in your life that this anxiety was confirmed. Teoh, this can help you in two ways. One, you might sit back and realize that this has never actually been confirmed to you because it's never happened. You never actually went to the gym and someone came up to is it? Hey, you're on, You know, like it kind of allows you take it to really see in a different perspective and say I mean, this has never really been confirmed, and it shows you that sometimes our mind, they're going to play us the scariest version. Teoh to a situation in efforts to just protect us from feeling some an emotion that we might not desire to feel, but should make your missions to prove that thought wrong and just actually do what you want to do. If you want to go to the gym, and you're anxious because you're thinking that people are going to think something of you that is a valid thought. But why not prove to yourself prove it to the to your mind off whether or not this actually a belief that is confirmed and true? Go to the gym. And if someone comes up to you and says that you're unfit, reality is that person is super insecure and the art so ugly inside. And they wanna share with you on the outside but in the physical world, so I wouldn't pay them no mind, but and so secondly, what it can help you realize is if you can think to a time, well, let's say you were bullied for being overweight. That's why when you go into a gym setting, you feel uncomfortable or anxious. Then it's time for you to realize that that was a different place. That was a different time. You are not the same person, and you cannot continue to hold the same emotions you felt at a different time in your life in this present, because that means you're living in the past. It's good to try stays present as you can I'm living too much in the past. Too much in the future can can be good and good and bad.