1 0:00:00,220 --> 0:00:05,552 Speaker 1: Every challenge is meant for us to work through, to experience, to process and to let go. 2 0:00:06,301 --> 0:00:11,993 Speaker 1: And as you do this, that energy that moves through your system and through your body will become your personal power. 3 0:00:12,540 --> 0:00:22,208 Speaker 1: It will translate into deeper connection, it will translate into clarity, it will translate into purpose, it will translate into wealth, it will translate into your ability to influence and lead others. 4 0:00:22,709 --> 0:00:23,712 Speaker 1: Your anxiety is a gift. 5 0:00:26,545 --> 0:00:45,774 Speaker 1: Welcome to a Changed Mind a journey into the topics that matter to you most, from the neuroscience and spirituality of mindset and personal growth to groundbreaking strategies for health, wealth and relationships, to open and honest conversations about pressing global issues such as the environment, censorship, corporate capture and democracy. 6 0:00:46,401 --> 0:00:57,615 Speaker 1: Each and every episode reminds us of the certainty of the goodness of the future and provides the teachings, tools and timeless wisdom inspiring you to create real, lasting change in your life and in the world. 7 0:00:58,060 --> 0:01:11,000 Speaker 1: If you've been desiring a sanctuary for your spirit, a place to go to tune out the distraction, negativity and doom and gloom, so that you can tap into the deep power, the vibrancy and the potential you have inside, you're in the right place. 8 0:01:11,782 --> 0:01:14,046 Speaker 1: Welcome to a Changed Mind. 9 0:01:18,861 --> 0:01:19,522 Speaker 1: Hey, it's David. 10 0:01:19,663 --> 0:01:23,830 Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of a Changed Mind podcast. 11 0:01:23,870 --> 0:01:31,281 Speaker 1: A sanctuary for your human spirit, a place where I will remind you each and every day of the certainty of the goodness of the future and man. 12 0:01:31,401 --> 0:01:42,613 Speaker 1: I am so excited for this episode to share with you something that transformed my life, from my own personal experience, that I know so many people are struggling with in the world. 13 0:01:42,673 --> 0:01:50,000 Speaker 1: Because once we transform this, we unlock so much personal power, so much more clarity, so much more capability and capacity in our life. 14 0:01:50,981 --> 0:01:53,665 Speaker 1: And the topic we're going to be talking about today is anxiety. 15 0:01:54,145 --> 0:02:09,453 Speaker 1: Before we get into that, whether you're a first time listener, whether you're a repeat listener of the show, do me a favor If you love this episode, if you love the show, do not forget to give us a review on whatever platform you're listening to. 16 0:02:10,100 --> 0:02:27,957 Speaker 1: This is the way that we can expose this great work to so many other people, so that you and I, together, can make an impact on others' lives and so that we can come together and attract even more amazing, awakened, impact-driven and conscious individuals into this incredible community that we are creating together. 17 0:02:28,641 --> 0:02:33,846 Speaker 1: So I'm excited about diving deep into this topic of overcoming anxiety. 18 0:02:34,287 --> 0:02:36,169 Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of conversation out there. 19 0:02:36,229 --> 0:02:59,000 Speaker 1: You can go on YouTube, you can search on the podcast platforms, you can find a lot of different conversations and opinions and suggestions Very well meaning on how to overcome anxiety, how to deal with feelings of anxiety or panic attacks or stress or fear, and there are some good suggestions out there but they don't really get to the root of the problem because we don't understand actually the root of where anxiety comes from. 20 0:02:59,280 --> 0:03:06,948 Speaker 1: And I'm going to be diving deeper on this topic than probably you've ever heard before and I'm excited to be able to share this with you. 21 0:03:06,968 --> 0:03:10,391 Speaker 1: And it comes out of my own journey of anxiety. 22 0:03:11,152 --> 0:03:15,837 Speaker 1: I started having anxiety and panic attacks at the age of 17 years old. 23 0:03:16,000 --> 0:03:19,884 Speaker 1: I actually had a very rare health situation. 24 0:03:20,024 --> 0:03:28,633 Speaker 1: It wasn't serious but it was complex and as a result of trying to find a solution for it, I went from doctor to doctor to doctor. 25 0:03:28,733 --> 0:03:30,374 Speaker 1: My parents took me to different specialists. 26 0:03:30,414 --> 0:03:32,156 Speaker 1: I had a lot of different tests that were done. 27 0:03:33,000 --> 0:03:42,610 Speaker 1: I missed about half my senior year of high school and, for whatever reason that catalyzed anxiety for me, I started having panic attacks. 28 0:03:43,131 --> 0:03:48,877 Speaker 1: I remember the very first time I was training because I was going to be playing collegiate basketball. 29 0:03:49,440 --> 0:04:07,437 Speaker 1: So my senior year of high school I was training with a well-known strength trainer and athletic development coach about a half hour from my home in Orange County, california, and I was coming back from a training session and there's a place in the Irvine El Toro area called the California the Y. 30 0:04:08,360 --> 0:04:12,926 Speaker 1: It's where the 405 and the five highway meet and it's like I mean gosh, this was like 20 years ago. 31 0:04:12,966 --> 0:04:18,173 Speaker 1: It was a 22 lane exchange where these two major highways come together. 32 0:04:18,573 --> 0:04:33,869 Speaker 1: Despite the fact that there were so many lanes at this interchange, there was just always a ton of traffic, and so you'd sit there for 30 minutes just trying to get through what was called the El Toro Y and I was stuck in traffic and I had this overwhelming feeling of fear and panic. 33 0:04:33,909 --> 0:04:35,951 Speaker 1: It didn't make any intellectual sense. 34 0:04:36,171 --> 0:04:42,357 Speaker 1: It was really just this feeling that I was going to die, that I wasn't safe, that I wasn't going to be okay. 35 0:04:43,180 --> 0:04:45,242 Speaker 1: I felt the sensations in my body. 36 0:04:45,282 --> 0:04:48,265 Speaker 1: It was like my heart rate increased All of a sudden. 37 0:04:48,426 --> 0:05:04,695 Speaker 1: I was just very sensitive to tingling and my fingers and my extremities, and everybody experiences anxiety in a different way, but that was the first time I had a full blown panic attack and what ended up happening was I started becoming afraid of my anxiety, my panic attacks. 38 0:05:04,755 --> 0:05:06,018 Speaker 1: My panic attacks increased. 39 0:05:07,041 --> 0:05:18,690 Speaker 1: So I ended up going and seeing a therapist it was actually my mom's therapist at the time and they said hey, you know, what we recommend is that you take medication for your anxiety. 40 0:05:19,240 --> 0:05:34,931 Speaker 1: And so at that time I was put on a medication called Prozac and then eventually I was put on a medication called Paxil and eventually I was put on another medication called Afexer and I was basically on medication for about almost 15 to 20 years of my life. 41 0:05:35,000 --> 0:06:15,008 Speaker 1: It wasn't until I was 33 years old and if you've heard my story from episode four where Carol and I shared our story, it was a point in my life where I realized I was a drug addict, I was an alcoholic, I was a pornography addict, I was a workaholic, I was just a very obsessive compulsive in my behaviors and I started working a 12 step program and after I had about six months in the 12 step program and working the 12 steps and working with my sponsor and going to meetings and meeting every week with other fellows in that fellowship men and women and I started developing some recovery, I made a decision that I wanted to get off of the medications that I was on for my anxiety. 42 0:06:15,560 --> 0:06:17,688 Speaker 1: This wasn't really a logical decision. 43 0:06:17,920 --> 0:06:24,708 Speaker 1: You know, at that point in time I didn't have a perspective that it would be better to be off of medication than on medication. 44 0:06:25,400 --> 0:06:35,229 Speaker 1: I wasn't as deep into the awareness I have today of the body's incredible capacity to heal when left uninterfered with. 45 0:06:35,661 --> 0:06:56,186 Speaker 1: I wasn't into like the organic food conversation or being aware of environmental toxicities, or I wasn't even aware of some of the things that had already happened with pharmaceutical companies promoting products that they knew were bad for people and all of the litigation and eventually all of the compensation that pharmaceutical companies had to pay. 46 0:06:56,580 --> 0:07:05,046 Speaker 1: So my point is I just had this intuitive hit that I should probably get off of anti-anxiety medications, and when I did, it was very difficult. 47 0:07:05,140 --> 0:07:16,268 Speaker 1: I had a lot of withdrawal symptoms from the medication that at that time my doctor had not made me aware of, because I think they didn't even know at that time that there were these types of withdrawal symptoms. 48 0:07:16,860 --> 0:07:21,465 Speaker 1: The idea was, hey, you get on the medication and it supposedly helps with your anxiety, so just stay on it forever. 49 0:07:21,780 --> 0:07:28,884 Speaker 1: But once I got through the withdrawal symptoms, one of the things I experienced was what I would call a complete reactivation of my nervous system. 50 0:07:29,200 --> 0:07:51,810 Speaker 1: I wasn't aware at how neurologically suppressive the medication was and how it had numbed my emotions, and so that's one way that I think it supported my anxiety and my panic attacks was I just wasn't able to feel as much as I was feeling before, and again, I'm not suggesting that it was necessarily because of the medication. 51 0:07:51,900 --> 0:07:53,467 Speaker 1: I'm just sharing that this was my experience. 52 0:07:53,560 --> 0:08:10,921 Speaker 1: And then when I got off of anti-anxiety SSRI prescription drugs, all of a sudden it was like a full frontal attack with the emotions of life, and I learned how to work through those emotions the fears, the overwhelm, the sadness, the anger and a lot of. 53 0:08:10,962 --> 0:08:36,427 Speaker 1: That was what gave birth to the tools, the distinctions and the frameworks that I teach today to help people work with their emotions and work with the experiences of life and be able to transform those things that historically cause a stress or anxiety and allow them to work their way through our nervous system and metabolize them, because that's what actually gives us greater emotional capacity and range in our nervous system and allows us to have a powerful living experience. 54 0:08:37,200 --> 0:08:44,472 Speaker 1: And so the conversation that we're gonna have today is going deep into an understanding of what anxiety is. 55 0:08:44,720 --> 0:09:06,808 Speaker 1: Maybe you're experiencing anxiety or panic attacks, maybe you're just experiencing more stress than you'd like to experience in your life, but it's very important that you have a deep, fundamental understanding of what anxiety is, because anxiety can feel crippling and, as a result of that, we want it to go away, we want it to stop, but there's really nowhere to go because we can't get outside of our own bodies. 56 0:09:07,660 --> 0:09:20,928 Speaker 1: And so I wanna start out by sharing with you what I've come to understand and the truth that anxiety is actually the body's process, one of the body's many processes of healing. 57 0:09:21,860 --> 0:09:22,845 Speaker 1: It's what anxiety is. 58 0:09:22,980 --> 0:09:27,387 Speaker 1: So it's important to first understand, and then I'm gonna give you some really practical tools. 59 0:09:27,540 --> 0:09:29,427 Speaker 1: But this understanding is really really important. 60 0:09:29,447 --> 0:09:29,548 Speaker 1: In it. 61 0:09:29,700 --> 0:09:31,045 Speaker 1: It's not talked about anywhere else. 62 0:09:31,840 --> 0:09:33,346 Speaker 1: Anxiety is a healing process. 63 0:09:33,740 --> 0:09:57,425 Speaker 1: What has happened over time is that, as you've been experiencing the different experiences of your life frustration, anger, stress, overwhelm, feeling like there's not enough time, feeling like you're not good enough, feeling like you're not as far along as you should be All of those dissonant thoughts right, they're not resonant thoughts, they're not joyful thoughts those dissonant thoughts and the emotions that you experience with them. 64 0:09:57,726 --> 0:09:57,867 Speaker 1: Right? 65 0:09:57,940 --> 0:10:10,430 Speaker 1: We break all emotions into two categories powerful states of emotion emotions that feel good and primal states of emotion emotions that don't feel good and you're always in one state of being or another. 66 0:10:10,520 --> 0:10:17,268 Speaker 1: You're always in a powerful state or a primal state and you're not in two states at once, and that really maps to the way your nervous system works. 67 0:10:17,580 --> 0:10:21,827 Speaker 1: Powerful states are the parasympathetic nervous system rest, relaxation and your personal power. 68 0:10:22,460 --> 0:10:32,787 Speaker 1: Primal states are the sympathetic expression of the nervous system fight or flight and the only thing that's causing us these emotions are our thoughts or the meanings that we give the experiences of our life. 69 0:10:32,920 --> 0:10:34,166 Speaker 1: It's not the experience itself. 70 0:10:34,320 --> 0:10:54,048 Speaker 1: And so, as you're out there experiencing life, a lot of your old limiting beliefs from your childhood are coming up and they're shaping the lens of your experience, and oftentimes they're limited or we would call them, they're unintelligent, and they begin to invoke within you these primal states and your body accumulates that energy. 71 0:10:54,129 --> 0:11:20,607 Speaker 1: Over time, it accumulates that dissonant energy or tension or stress on your system and so, over time, as you can no longer, or your body can no longer, contain the amount of dissonant energy that you've accumulated, based on years and years and years and years of a variety of thoughts that have invoked these emotions, it produces anxiety as a way to start letting tension off the system. 72 0:11:21,480 --> 0:11:36,748 Speaker 1: And we can see, for example, that when animals have a confrontation, a stressful confrontation, when they move into a primal state, after that confrontation they'll move their body, they'll shake their wings, they'll shake their bodies, they'll go for a run, they'll roll in the ground. 73 0:11:36,840 --> 0:11:40,110 Speaker 1: They have a way of offloading this dissonance and tension. 74 0:11:40,280 --> 0:11:46,848 Speaker 1: But we've lost connection with that primal instinct of alleviating ourselves of stress. 75 0:11:47,700 --> 0:11:59,128 Speaker 1: And so there's this accumulation over time, right, we become emotionally constipated with all of these energies in our body and in our nervous system and in our cells. 76 0:11:59,628 --> 0:12:04,515 Speaker 1: So the body, in its infinite wisdom, is always working to restore homeostasis. 77 0:12:05,140 --> 0:12:09,148 Speaker 1: I believe the body has the capacity to heal anything that it experiences. 78 0:12:09,208 --> 0:12:15,866 Speaker 1: I like what bj Palmer, the founder of chiropractic, said, which is nature needs no help, just no interference. 79 0:12:16,126 --> 0:12:24,730 Speaker 1: And if you look at the chiropractic sciences, it's really around this idea of hey, if we can just realign the body and restore it to its original alignment, the body will heal. 80 0:12:25,700 --> 0:12:33,950 Speaker 1: So what happens is that we begin to experience anxiety, but we experience it as if it's a foreign invader. 81 0:12:34,050 --> 0:12:35,812 Speaker 1: We experience it as if it's a problem. 82 0:12:35,832 --> 0:12:46,414 Speaker 1: We don't experience it as if it is healing Right, as if it is a symptomatology that is indicating the restoration of homeostasis in the body. 83 0:12:47,121 --> 0:12:57,735 Speaker 1: So the metaphor I would give is when we have a fever, right, most people understand, and medical practitioners would agree, that the fever is a helpful mechanism. 84 0:12:58,581 --> 0:13:34,896 Speaker 1: When there's some sort of viral infection in the immune system needs to be activated, the body increases its temperature, which then creates a cascade of other immunological responses so that your bodies can respond to whatever the I wouldn't call it the foreign invader is, but to whatever is going on in the body, whether it's a bacterial, viral, some other sort of Infection, and we allow the fever to run its course, like in oftentimes, we're waiting and wanting the fever to break, because then it's an indication that now the body systems have become activated for the healing process to be initiated. 85 0:13:35,380 --> 0:13:37,303 Speaker 1: Well, I want you to encourage you to think about. 86 0:13:37,443 --> 0:13:38,864 Speaker 1: Anxiety is the same thing. 87 0:13:39,045 --> 0:13:58,032 Speaker 1: Anxiety is the breaking of a fever, it's the activation of a response in the body to this accumulation, this constipation of unmetabolized emotions that is now essentially the equivalent of you know, when you see the two geese who fight and then shake afterwards. 88 0:13:58,112 --> 0:14:05,252 Speaker 1: This is, this is your shaking process, and so, while the anxiety isn't comfortable, we want to allow it. 89 0:14:06,040 --> 0:14:14,430 Speaker 1: The problem that occurs with anxiety is the meaning we give the experience of anxiety, or the healing process. 90 0:14:14,470 --> 0:14:30,195 Speaker 1: In other words, the body has this natural healing process called anxiety, which is meant to offload the distance that you've accumulated over time Based on your misinterpretations of the experiences that you've had, in viewing your life through the lens of your limiting beliefs, which move you into a parasympathetic, fight or flight state. 91 0:14:30,981 --> 0:14:34,005 Speaker 1: Then we experience anxiety and rather than going, oh well, this is great. 92 0:14:34,145 --> 0:14:48,208 Speaker 1: Right, this is my body's way of relieving me of all of that tension that I've accumulated over time, so that that tension doesn't further accumulate Into inflammatory disease, neurological disease, autoimmune disease, cancers and so on and so forth. 93 0:14:48,248 --> 0:14:51,813 Speaker 1: Right, my body's catching this early and releasing this energy through this feeling. 94 0:14:51,853 --> 0:14:56,142 Speaker 1: That's not particularly comfortable, same as a fever, right, which is anxiety. 95 0:14:56,162 --> 0:14:59,767 Speaker 1: A fever is not comfortable either, but what happens is the mind. 96 0:15:00,148 --> 0:15:09,386 Speaker 1: We then give the experience of the anxiety a meaning, and so I want you to think about this is you've experienced anxiety? 97 0:15:09,446 --> 0:15:09,727 Speaker 1: What is? 98 0:15:09,887 --> 0:15:11,130 Speaker 1: What are the thoughts that occur for you? 99 0:15:11,170 --> 0:15:12,813 Speaker 1: What's the meaning that you give that experience? 100 0:15:13,541 --> 0:15:16,947 Speaker 1: So most people have a meaning that they give it of like there's something wrong with me. 101 0:15:17,127 --> 0:15:18,890 Speaker 1: Oh, my god, there's something wrong with my body. 102 0:15:18,950 --> 0:15:19,732 Speaker 1: What's going on? 103 0:15:19,812 --> 0:15:20,854 Speaker 1: Why is this happening? 104 0:15:21,741 --> 0:15:27,128 Speaker 1: What if I die right or even after we've had anxiety or panic attacks on multiple occasions? 105 0:15:27,168 --> 0:15:29,671 Speaker 1: What if this time it's actually something serious? 106 0:15:29,751 --> 0:15:30,812 Speaker 1: What if it doesn't go away? 107 0:15:31,173 --> 0:15:32,134 Speaker 1: How do I make it stop? 108 0:15:32,194 --> 0:15:33,356 Speaker 1: How do I get away from it? 109 0:15:34,001 --> 0:15:36,529 Speaker 1: And the resistance just increases the tension. 110 0:15:38,081 --> 0:15:57,634 Speaker 1: So, in other words, here your body is trying to alleviate you of tension, and in the process of alleviation, the meaning that you're giving the experience because it feels physically uncomfortable there's no denying of that the meaning that you're giving the experience is yet more fight or flight and more misinterpretation and more dissonance. 111 0:15:58,620 --> 0:16:13,372 Speaker 1: And so not only do we not allow the release of the tension that is already in our body through the process of what we call anxiety or panic attack, but now we create even more tension on the system and it ends up just looping and looping, and looping and looping. 112 0:16:14,261 --> 0:16:19,411 Speaker 1: My grandfather had this little toy that used to sit on his table and I would grab. 113 0:16:19,431 --> 0:16:33,606 Speaker 1: It was called the Chinese finger trap and it was made of straw and you put one finger in on the left side of this straw tube and then you put the right finger in on the right side of the straw tube and as a kid, I pull my fingers to try to get my fingers out. 114 0:16:33,626 --> 0:16:40,620 Speaker 1: But what would actually happen is this little straw contraption would just tighten down around my left and right finger, and the more I pulled, the tighter it got. 115 0:16:41,741 --> 0:16:45,987 Speaker 1: And so the way that we experience anxiety today is very much like a Chinese finger trap. 116 0:16:46,327 --> 0:16:58,122 Speaker 1: Number one, because we don't understand what anxiety is, which, again, is a healing process that, if allowed, will alleviate your system of the tension that you have accumulated Over time. 117 0:16:58,903 --> 0:17:02,168 Speaker 1: The mistake that we make is that we think the anxiety is some foreign invader. 118 0:17:02,208 --> 0:17:03,590 Speaker 1: We think there's something wrong with us. 119 0:17:03,711 --> 0:17:08,558 Speaker 1: Nobody's ever taught us, and doctors don't explain to us, that anxiety is actually the same thing as a fever. 120 0:17:08,578 --> 0:17:14,666 Speaker 1: It's an indication of a healing that's taking place, and the key is to know what's going on right. 121 0:17:14,686 --> 0:17:30,188 Speaker 1: Which is this and this distinction I learned when carol and I were in Costa Rica doing indigenous medicine healing work, specifically with ayahuasca and the shaman who facilitated this medicine. 122 0:17:30,268 --> 0:17:54,252 Speaker 1: Experience has become a very good friend of ours, meetrapoliti, who has a wonderful book that I recommend that you check out on amazon, with his poems around healing and these misinterpretations and how we can understand that, in fact, in every moment of our experience, life is working for us, our bodies working for us, everything is working for our growth are healing and our prosperity, even though it may be Uncomfortable. 123 0:17:54,333 --> 0:18:06,639 Speaker 1: Mitra, after the medicine ceremony in the morning, explain the discomfort that we were experiencing in ceremony the night before the hallucinations, the physical discomforts, the emotional discomforts was actually all of the dissonance leaving our body. 124 0:18:06,659 --> 0:18:10,576 Speaker 1: That's what the healing is, and he gave me a very powerful mantra, which is what's coming is going. 125 0:18:14,885 --> 0:18:20,236 Speaker 1: What I'm experiencing right now isn't invading me, it's not coming into my body. 126 0:18:20,256 --> 0:18:22,400 Speaker 1: It's actually been inside of me and it's now coming up to the surface to be released. 127 0:18:25,705 --> 0:18:27,629 Speaker 1: What's coming is going. 128 0:18:28,670 --> 0:18:34,380 Speaker 1: The key is to understand this, that what's happening as a healing, and we simply need to allow it. 129 0:18:35,137 --> 0:18:35,960 Speaker 1: And so that's step one. 130 0:18:36,496 --> 0:18:37,340 Speaker 1: You know what do we do. 131 0:18:37,435 --> 0:18:47,482 Speaker 1: We need to know what's going on, because if you understand what's going on, that'll put you in an intellectual position to allow the experience rather than resist the experience. 132 0:18:47,595 --> 0:18:56,259 Speaker 1: It will prevent the unintelligent thinking, the meanings that you give this experience of anxiety, that it's never gonna go away, that there's something wrong with you, that you're gonna die. 133 0:18:56,675 --> 0:19:03,219 Speaker 1: You won't do that, because you'll understand that it's a healing, that what's coming is going, even though it's uncomfortable. 134 0:19:03,239 --> 0:19:06,558 Speaker 1: The key is to allow it, and I'm gonna share with you what you can do through the discomfort. 135 0:19:07,315 --> 0:19:08,520 Speaker 1: But that's really step one. 136 0:19:09,615 --> 0:19:18,882 Speaker 1: Step one is prevent the perpetuation of dissonance on your nervous system, which occurs when you move into fear of the anxiety. 137 0:19:19,895 --> 0:19:37,641 Speaker 1: You move into fear of the anxiety, the anxiety can't be released and you just compound the situation because you're putting more stress on your system Simply as a result of the unintelligent meaning, the misunderstanding, the limiting belief you have around the anxiety experience. 138 0:19:38,615 --> 0:19:44,205 Speaker 1: So now we need to start to look at well, what do we do while we are uncomfortable? 139 0:19:45,415 --> 0:19:55,442 Speaker 1: What do we do now, knowing that the body would never hurt us, that a healing is taking place, that life will never hurt you, that everything you experience in your life is love, is healing, including anxiety? 140 0:19:56,435 --> 0:20:02,082 Speaker 1: What do we now do in order to facilitate ourselves through this uncomfortable experience? 141 0:20:03,075 --> 0:20:15,844 Speaker 1: And the answer is that we take this understanding and then we do activities that allow us to support the reestablishment of our resonance. 142 0:20:16,846 --> 0:20:19,363 Speaker 1: Right, because what's happening is you're energetically off. 143 0:20:20,115 --> 0:20:38,045 Speaker 1: So, number one and I think, the most helpful thing to do when you are in anxiety which again just simply means that there's too much dissonant energy on your system is go, connect with the resonant energy, and you can go out and do that by simply walking on the earth. 144 0:20:39,255 --> 0:20:40,158 Speaker 1: Go out in nature. 145 0:20:40,739 --> 0:20:48,143 Speaker 1: If you don't live in nature, find a park, put your feet on the ground, connect to the resonance of the earth. 146 0:20:49,055 --> 0:20:55,182 Speaker 1: The earth has a vibration that is a pure resonant vibration or an ohm vibration. 147 0:20:55,855 --> 0:21:07,002 Speaker 1: It is a vibration of healing, it's a vibration of homeostasis, and so what you wanna do is you wanna be able to support the release of the dissonant energy by connecting with the resonance. 148 0:21:07,195 --> 0:21:15,940 Speaker 1: Literally, as you put your feet on the ground, you're feeding that dissonant energy that's also coming out through the symptomatology of anxiety back into the earth. 149 0:21:17,064 --> 0:21:29,604 Speaker 1: Right, you're releasing this frenetic electrical energy and you're bringing electrons, vibration and resonance from the groundedness of the earth into your system. 150 0:21:30,075 --> 0:21:34,924 Speaker 1: That's the first thing that you can do Go out into nature, ground and connect. 151 0:21:36,035 --> 0:21:40,967 Speaker 1: You can also ground and connect in a variety of other ways. 152 0:21:41,635 --> 0:21:51,623 Speaker 1: See, anxiety tends to isolate us, it separates us from other people, it separates us from joyful experiences, and so I don't know what connection looks like for you. 153 0:21:52,135 --> 0:21:54,403 Speaker 1: It might be going to church or temple or your mosque. 154 0:21:54,515 --> 0:22:00,805 Speaker 1: It might be doing some volunteer work that you stop doing because of your anxiety and your panic attacks. 155 0:22:00,935 --> 0:22:02,582 Speaker 1: It might be having dinner with friends. 156 0:22:02,715 --> 0:22:23,839 Speaker 1: Think about what life was like before the anxiety and the things that you were doing to connect with yourself and connect with others, and begin a practice of integrating those things again, because now you will be in the practice of being the person that you were before the anxiety began to take hold of you. 157 0:22:24,602 --> 0:22:24,803 Speaker 1: Right? 158 0:22:25,415 --> 0:22:37,076 Speaker 1: A lot of this is if you wanna be a person who's not suffering with anxiety, then do the things that a person who doesn't suffer from anxiety would be doing, and so we start to get into these practices Again. 159 0:22:37,096 --> 0:22:37,920 Speaker 1: What are we talking about? 160 0:22:38,035 --> 0:22:40,724 Speaker 1: Number one allow the anxiety. 161 0:22:41,095 --> 0:22:42,501 Speaker 1: That's a healing that's taking place. 162 0:22:42,715 --> 0:22:49,724 Speaker 1: Number two support the reestablishment of resonance and the removal of dissonance in your body. 163 0:22:49,895 --> 0:22:51,702 Speaker 1: Go out and ground on the planet. 164 0:22:51,835 --> 0:22:54,043 Speaker 1: Go out and connect with other people. 165 0:22:54,215 --> 0:23:00,999 Speaker 1: Be the person who doesn't allow their lives to be limited by anxiety, by doing the things that that person would do. 166 0:23:01,675 --> 0:23:05,659 Speaker 1: That will also allow you to recalibrate the energy of your body. 167 0:23:06,775 --> 0:23:10,366 Speaker 1: Be aware of what you're putting into your body, right? 168 0:23:10,555 --> 0:23:12,844 Speaker 1: So think about what foods you're putting into your body. 169 0:23:12,955 --> 0:23:16,520 Speaker 1: Don't put in ultra processed foods, because that's dissonant energy. 170 0:23:17,255 --> 0:23:18,821 Speaker 1: Try to eat healthy, organic foods. 171 0:23:19,535 --> 0:23:26,483 Speaker 1: Try to eat some grass-fed beef or animals without hormones, or organic plants or fruits. 172 0:23:27,955 --> 0:23:33,524 Speaker 1: Stay away from electronics, right, don't look at electronics before you go to bed. 173 0:23:34,015 --> 0:23:36,624 Speaker 1: Check your screen time and reduce it on your phone. 174 0:23:36,895 --> 0:23:43,302 Speaker 1: All of that is electrical vibration and energy that is dissonant or different from the natural resonance of who we are. 175 0:23:43,795 --> 0:23:45,703 Speaker 1: Stay away from electromagnetic frequencies. 176 0:23:45,815 --> 0:23:47,923 Speaker 1: Remove yourself from toxins. 177 0:23:48,035 --> 0:24:04,422 Speaker 1: These are all things that you can do to support your body's detoxification process as it is releasing all of the accumulated limiting beliefs and misunderstanding and anxieties and stressors that you have become constipated energetically with overtime. 178 0:24:05,906 --> 0:24:09,279 Speaker 1: Right, know that this is a gift. 179 0:24:10,295 --> 0:24:23,554 Speaker 1: Remind yourself as it's happening that it is a gift, because it is a gift as you transform this energy in your body, as you learn to release it as you've experienced it, and then let it go. 180 0:24:24,001 --> 0:24:25,827 Speaker 1: It will transform into expansion. 181 0:24:27,164 --> 0:24:29,200 Speaker 1: It will transform your nervous system. 182 0:24:29,361 --> 0:24:31,220 Speaker 1: It will increase your range and capacity. 183 0:24:31,440 --> 0:24:36,271 Speaker 1: You will be someone who has tasted and overcome anxiety. 184 0:24:37,941 --> 0:24:49,712 Speaker 1: Every challenge is meant for us to work through to experience, to process and to let go and, as you do this, that energy that moves through your system and through your body will become your personal power. 185 0:24:51,061 --> 0:24:53,008 Speaker 1: It will translate into deeper connection. 186 0:24:53,220 --> 0:24:54,416 Speaker 1: It will translate into clarity. 187 0:24:54,720 --> 0:24:55,754 Speaker 1: It will translate into purpose. 188 0:24:56,300 --> 0:24:57,525 Speaker 1: It will translate into wealth. 189 0:24:58,220 --> 0:25:01,188 Speaker 1: It will translate into your ability to influence and lead others. 190 0:25:02,260 --> 0:25:06,447 Speaker 1: Your anxiety is a gift, just like my drug and alcohol addiction was a gift. 191 0:25:07,360 --> 0:25:09,768 Speaker 1: Just like the challenges that I've had in my business are gifts. 192 0:25:10,502 --> 0:25:13,220 Speaker 1: Just like the challenges I had in the family that I grew up with are gifts. 193 0:25:13,481 --> 0:25:17,711 Speaker 1: Just like the challenges that I have in my relationship with Carol are gifts. 194 0:25:18,922 --> 0:25:21,870 Speaker 1: We don't want a life that is challenge-less. 195 0:25:22,380 --> 0:25:34,836 Speaker 1: We want to have the wisdom and the tools to be able to work through these challenges so that we can digest them and translate them through our nervous system into the resonant version of what they are meant to be, which is our personal power. 196 0:25:35,984 --> 0:25:41,728 Speaker 1: I remember about a year ago when I was going through a very, very difficult time, a lot of different stressors in my life. 197 0:25:42,661 --> 0:25:45,870 Speaker 1: I was sitting in my car crying and I said to God. 198 0:25:45,911 --> 0:25:48,748 Speaker 1: I said, god, just make my life easier. 199 0:25:49,701 --> 0:25:53,751 Speaker 1: I paused because I realized that that didn't feel right to me. 200 0:25:54,320 --> 0:25:58,200 Speaker 1: I stopped and I reimagined my request to God. 201 0:25:58,881 --> 0:26:17,220 Speaker 1: I said God, make me stronger so that I can handle all of the challenges that you give me that are meant to make me stronger and make me wiser and make me more loving, make me richer and make me more compassionate, because I don't know anybody who's achieved an extraordinary life without having to overcome some challenge. 202 0:26:18,383 --> 0:26:22,132 Speaker 1: Your challenge right now is showing up in the form of anxiety. 203 0:26:23,102 --> 0:26:34,069 Speaker 1: I want you to know that if you're here, it's because you're on the brink of learning how to transform this anxiety into your personal power by number one, understanding what anxiety is. 204 0:26:34,189 --> 0:26:36,775 Speaker 1: It's your body's way of loving you into a healing. 205 0:26:36,835 --> 0:26:39,180 Speaker 1: So, as best as you can, even though it's uncomfortable, allow it. 206 0:26:40,627 --> 0:26:43,220 Speaker 1: If doing some deep breathing supports it, fantastic. 207 0:26:43,701 --> 0:26:53,220 Speaker 1: If you find some other tool or modality, like EFT or tapping or whatever else anybody else is talking about out there about how to alleviate anxiety, use those tools to support you through it. 208 0:26:53,922 --> 0:26:59,220 Speaker 1: But, most importantly, know that what's happening is a great healing and expansion is taking place within you, and allow it. 209 0:27:00,121 --> 0:27:11,971 Speaker 1: Disallow the fear that something is going wrong, that you're going to end up having this for the rest of your life, that there's something that's invading you or attacking you, because none of that is true. 210 0:27:12,541 --> 0:27:17,732 Speaker 1: Be with the anxiety and then support the process of your own personal reorganization. 211 0:27:18,380 --> 0:27:25,220 Speaker 1: Realize that there are things that you can do, from connecting to the earth to connecting with other people, to being conscious of putting resonance in your body. 212 0:27:26,203 --> 0:27:31,220 Speaker 1: Listen to uplifting music rather than getting caught up in the news and the divide. 213 0:27:31,821 --> 0:27:40,220 Speaker 1: Tune in to another one of my podcast episodes, if this feels good, and allow that resonance to come in through your ears and to feed your system and feed your soul. 214 0:27:41,264 --> 0:27:45,220 Speaker 1: This is the practice, and this is the beginning of a practice not just for your anxiety. 215 0:27:45,643 --> 0:27:48,220 Speaker 1: It's a practice to live each and every day in your life. 216 0:27:48,945 --> 0:27:51,220 Speaker 1: This is the practice that I'm committed to. 217 0:27:51,400 --> 0:27:58,220 Speaker 1: This is the practice that is a community we're all working on a daily basis, because if it's not anxiety, it's a business challenge. 218 0:27:58,661 --> 0:28:01,090 Speaker 1: If it's not a business challenge, it's a relationship challenge. 219 0:28:01,220 --> 0:28:03,220 Speaker 1: If it's not a relationship challenge, it's another health challenge. 220 0:28:03,520 --> 0:28:32,914 Speaker 1: If it's not a health challenge, it's a pandemic, or it's a recession, or it's something else that's going on in the world that we cannot avoid, but that we can experience from a powerful state of being, that we can experience with a changed mind, and when we do, we're able to translate that experience into something that allows us to become even more powerful, and it truly is the gift that becomes the way for us to create the vision that we have for our lives. 221 0:28:33,462 --> 0:28:35,220 Speaker 1: So you're in the right place right now. 222 0:28:35,401 --> 0:28:36,987 Speaker 1: You're in the right conversation. 223 0:28:38,023 --> 0:28:40,049 Speaker 1: See if you can find some gratitude for your anxiety. 224 0:28:41,201 --> 0:29:04,975 Speaker 1: See if you can be thankful for the fact that your system works this way, and see if you can appreciate and anticipate that, as you interact with your anxiety from a higher level perspective, from this intelligent way, appreciate that as it translates through your system, you're going to learn something really, really powerful from this that you're going to be able to leverage into creating everything that you want for your life. 225 0:29:05,462 --> 0:29:07,220 Speaker 1: This anxiety is not going to hold you back. 226 0:29:07,501 --> 0:29:08,585 Speaker 1: It's going to propel you forward. 227 0:29:09,220 --> 0:29:13,570 Speaker 1: You're going to know that from personal experience and I'm here with you to support you through the process. 228 0:29:15,280 --> 0:29:18,220 Speaker 1: So, baby steps right, one day at a time. 229 0:29:18,681 --> 0:29:32,452 Speaker 1: You're not meant to do this perfectly, but as you experience your anxiety, if you can just in that moment, remind yourself that what's taking place as a healing, that's a new, powerful rep in a new transformative direction. 230 0:29:33,420 --> 0:29:37,810 Speaker 1: Nobody does this perfectly, but you've got an insight now that most people don't have. 231 0:29:37,850 --> 0:29:42,220 Speaker 1: You're no longer living in the confusion and the misunderstanding that anxiety is the enemy. 232 0:29:42,866 --> 0:29:43,270 Speaker 1: It's not. 233 0:29:43,715 --> 0:29:44,220 Speaker 1: Anxiety is the friend. 234 0:29:45,102 --> 0:29:48,888 Speaker 1: It's a natural part of the process of you healing and you want that right. 235 0:29:49,369 --> 0:29:54,159 Speaker 1: You want to be healed, you want to be whole, you want to be powerful, you want to be able to make an impact on the people around you. 236 0:29:54,761 --> 0:30:06,818 Speaker 1: You want to have the space inside of you to be able to connect more deeply with spirit and to be intuitive and to be inspired and to live, and to live as an instrument of spirit, making an impact in the world, achieving your full potential. 237 0:30:06,838 --> 0:30:07,220 Speaker 1: You want that right. 238 0:30:07,682 --> 0:30:10,959 Speaker 1: Well, if you want that, then we've got to create space inside of you for that. 239 0:30:10,979 --> 0:30:19,196 Speaker 1: Right now, your body is working on purging you of probably decades, if not years, of misunderstanding and dissonance. 240 0:30:19,877 --> 0:30:21,220 Speaker 1: For that we can find great gratitude. 241 0:30:21,863 --> 0:30:22,887 Speaker 1: So I love you. 242 0:30:24,063 --> 0:30:24,766 Speaker 1: I'm here with you. 243 0:30:25,842 --> 0:30:26,444 Speaker 1: Stay close. 244 0:30:27,648 --> 0:30:29,867 Speaker 1: Yeah, this was super powerful for me. 245 0:30:30,300 --> 0:30:39,093 Speaker 1: If you know somebody who and I hope it was powerful for you If you know somebody who can benefit from hearing this, please, please, please, share it with them. 246 0:30:39,260 --> 0:30:50,474 Speaker 1: And again, if you found value in this conversation today, tune in to the next conversation and leave me a review If you're listening on a podcast, or a comment if you're tuning in on YouTube. 247 0:30:51,136 --> 0:30:59,173 Speaker 1: We want to create a better world, and that starts 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