TheAnxietyMD ~ MD + Anxiety/Neuroscience Expert

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As an anxiety doctor, there is a factor I see in people that heal from anxiety. This factor is usually missing in those that don't recover. The course I refer to on this video is here https://www.thekennedymethodonline.com/courses/the-abcs-of-anxiety-relief-from-health-anxiety-and-hypochondria

From THE ANXIETY MD, www.theanxietymd.com -Often in treating anxiety, we doctors go after the mind, but what if a bigger source of the problem lies in the stored energy of alarm in the body? This video discusses the 3 step process that leads to anxiety relief in healing anxiety by identifying and releasing the alarm that is trapped in the body. This video links to an article in Elephant Journal that can be seen here https://www.elephantjournal.com/2019/03/healing-from-anxiety-lsd-and-an-enlightened-medical-doctor/

When we think of anxiety we think os the mind. But what if anxiety is not in the mind at all but a sense of alarm in the body? What if anxiety therapy would be much more effective if we placed more emphasis on the deep alarm in the body, vs the superficial thoughts of the mind?

Part of a set recorded at Yuk Yuks Comedy Club November 2018 by physician comedian Dr Russell Kennedy aka THE ANXIETY MD. A doctor jokes about his own health anxiety.

Much of what creates anxiety and alarm is (1) believing our own anxious thoughts and (2) projecting ourselves out of the moment and into the future. In this short video Dr Russell Kennedy shows you how to relieve anxiety and calm yourself by asking 3 simple questions that will calm and ground you so you can feel more at peace in your own mind and body. This is a very simple and effective process to help feel better when you are trapped in anxiety.

Anxiety is worsened by thinking. The more thinking we do when we are anxious the worse the anxiety gets. To get anxiety relief you need to direct your attention away from thinking and into sensation or feeling.

Anxiety, in my view is just anxious thoughts I call the 3Ws. It is the Warnings, What ifs? and Worse Case Scenarios the mind makes up to try to protect us from danger. The anxiety has no power to hurt us unless we BELIEVE those thoughts. The FEELING we associate with anxiety is actually a sense of ALARM that is created when we give the power of belief to our anxious thoughts. THis empowers us because we can separate the anxious thoughts of the mind from the alarm of the body and break the cycle that gets created when the anxious thoughts of the mind are believed and then generate ALARM in the body. NO belief = NO Alarm

As a medical doctor and anxiety expert I have had thousands of conversations about panic attacks. This is my best advice on how to deal with them.

When we worry we try to make the uncertain certain and attempt to control what we have no control over which only makes the anxiety worse. The solution is to move away from the compulsive need to control as when you chase control you chase an illusion....