The Anxiety Chicks

273. Meditation Monday: Learning to Let a Sensation Exist Without Reacting


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If you struggle with health anxiety or body hyper-focus, you know how quickly a sensation can turn into fear.
A tight muscle, a flutter, a strange feeling and suddenly your mind is scanning, analyzing, and reacting as if something is wrong.

This guided meditation is designed to interrupt that cycle.

Rather than trying to calm yourself through reassurance or distraction, this practice helps you do something more effective: learn to notice physical sensations without reacting to them.

Using principles from nervous system regulation, interoceptive exposure, and cognitive defusion, this meditation teaches your body and brain a new association, that sensations can exist without meaning danger.

In this meditation, you’ll practice:

  • Observing physical sensations without labeling them as threats

  • Separating sensations from anxious thoughts

  • Reducing body hyper-monitoring

  • Allowing discomfort without resistance

  • Teaching your nervous system safety through experience, not reassurance

    This is not a relaxation only meditation.
    It’s a skill-building practice meant to retrain your response to bodily sensations over time.

    Listen when you feel stuck in your body, hyper-aware of sensations, or caught in the fear → reaction loop.
    The goal isn’t to make sensations disappear, it’s to change how you respond to them.

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