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Anxiety as a Smoke Alarm Part 2

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Cass Carlopio
Sleep Expert, Psychologist & Meditation
This is part two of a talk on perceiving anxiety as a smoke alarm. If you haven't already, listen to part 1 first, to get the most out of this talk.
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11 reflections
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Daisy
Monday
There are many different ways to deactivate from an anxiety attack and I hope to put some of those new found techniques into practise next time I have an anxiety attack
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Mohsen
I must to feel safe in present time
And breathing is important to remember that anxiety and get powerful brain
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Tammy
Anxiety
Gives you steps to take when faced with anxiety. Will try it next time faced with anxiety.
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Jen
Steps
Remembering to breathe 4-5 deep breaths to reset my nervous system. Be mindful in the moment. Notice the room. Be present, not thinking what if. Ground your feet. Feel them connect with the floor.
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Lisa
Make It A Happy Day ☕️☀️
When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your windows, choose to make it a happy day. Namaste 🙏🏻
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Liz
I learned
I learned that I need to find ways to deactivate anxiety and even in anxiety I am fine
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Mia
I felt my body relax
As I looked around my house I felt my body’s tension decrease.
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Trish
Resetting your smoke alarm
This is pretty exciting stuff. I know for myself, I have not used techniques like these for an anxiety attack but I have for anger. And it really works. I’ll be passing these clips on to a dear friend with terrible debilitating anxiety and I will be excited to see if she uses them. The breath is what controls our whole nervous system. I had pretty explosive anger and started realizing when I was angry I was holding my breath. Just thinking about the experience my body gets tense. But breathing, learning to release that breath and then take slow deep breaths, usually within 3 breaths I was calmed down. Then once your emotions are back to normal you can deal with things in a more normal way without escalating the situation.
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Marie-Ange
Mindset
Our psychology and mindset have such a big impact on what happens in our lives it’s crazy.
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Emma
Anxiety part 2
Love it sounds like a really simple way of addressing sometimes a massive issue of what I always overthink and for it to be simplified has defused it abit in my head already defo gonna try it.
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Barb
Stopping for deep breaths
I think it’s always a good idea to try to be mindful of breathing, but never more so than when anxiety grabs us. Stopping, taking 4 or 5 big breaths really can, figuratively speaking, push the reset button for us.
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