Mornings with Mr Anxiety

Today’s episode is my last for 7 days as I am having a 1-week break, my first in years. I speak about how you can apply my system for dealing with anxiety in your life over the next week to improve the way you react to something that makes you anxious. I use multiple examples of ways I’ve applied the system and we also make one up. Enjoy the next week and see you again soon

Today I break down a quote by famous trauma psychiatrist Dr Bessell van der Kolk about recovering from anxiety. I look at how I’ve applied it to my life to deal with the big situations that used to make me anxious and how that’s fed through to other aspects of my life. If you have performance anxiety then I think you’ll enjoy today’s episode. We finish with a humming activity that you can use anytime to get out of your head and back into the body

Do you try to make yourself happy through individualistic or selfish means? Does it not work? Well today I speak about micro v macro happiness and what I learnt from a men’s circle group that I attended recently! I speak about how we can make ourselves happy by focusing on others more so than ourselves. I have a study from Harvard University that backs this up. As always we finish with an activity that you can use to calm yourself throughout the day

Today we speak more about what we’re trying to achieve by reprogramming our reaction to situations. If you get anxious before performances then today’s episodes speaks about how to recondition yourself for that using the method I use. I share a question I had last night at a talk I did to a sports club and then we finish with a face scan activity that’s great to do before bed at night

Do you think it would be worth sacrificing your life to strive for a gold medal? Would you miss catch-ups with family and friends to train everyday for 4 years? With the Olympics on tv at the moment it’s a great time to question whether the sacrifices we make in life to achieve greatness is worth it or not? We breakdown a great quote from Adam Smith from the 1700’s which perfectly sums up the answer to this question! We finish with a humming activity that you can do throughout the day to calm anxiety

Have you found that no matter how hard you try to stop those anxious thoughts they just keep on coming? Yep, I know what that’s like. Today we look at the whole system we need to work at fixing as I talk about the game I play where by wanting and accepting my anxiety today, it fixes it for tomorrow. We look at the subconscious mind, body and conscious minds role in the anxiety cycle and how it’s all about changing our conditioning. We finish with a quick 4-7-8 breathing activity

Today I speak about how I stoped myself from getting anxious speaking to a group of 13 psychologists yesterday. If you get anxious you can apply this process to any situation in your life. I also provide some context for a statement I made yesterday about the world we live in being full of greedy people. I explain how corporate greed is impacting our mental health. We finish with a quick breathing activity

Today I talk about a situation that has been causing me stress in my life and how I’ve used what I’ve learnt in the past to make a decision - to take a back step to take pressure off. If you have a situation in your life that you can’t seem to work through then maybe hearing how I justify taking a back step will help you. We finish with a humming activity and discuss how it can be used in social settings when we’re anxious to calm down

Today I take you back to when my anxiety really started to hit 5th gear in my final year of high school in 2004. We walk through the first few symptoms that I experienced. If you find that you’re starting to withdraw socially and wanting to be alone then this might resonate with you. We talk about dry July as it’s coming to an end and we really sink our teeth into a breathing activity that we can do to calm ourselves down

Today we breakdown last night’s 6th talk on anxiety, we look at the new content that we spoke about including our RTC method for beating anxiety over time. If you get anxiety from public speaking or social anxiety then this method is really good for learning to take a long term view with it and slowly work on beating it over time. We look at the questions that were asked from the audience and we finish with a humming activity that is so relaxing I nearly fall asleep