Beating Anxiety With Marc Lainhart - The Intuitive Prospector™️

Join Marc Lainhart - The Intuitive Prospector™️ as he discusses ways to relax the very busy mind and tips for beating anxiety and dealing with depression.

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Today we're going to be talking about anxiety.

We're going to be addressing some of the things and how we look at anxiety,

How we beat anxiety and how we manage anxiety on a daily basis.

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What anxiety looks like,

How we look at anxiety and how all of us,

There's over 20 million people today that deal with anxiety on a daily basis and also be having some amazing guests coming on.

I'm scheduling that right now for 2020 so you'll want to pay attention to that with the upcoming shows.

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That's today's topic that we're going to be discussing and going to be taking on a meditation as well,

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So today just take a nice deep breath with me and let's move into what I like to call the magic of the moment and let's talk a little bit about anxiety.

What can we do to beat anxiety?

Why do we have anxiety?

Is anxiety an actual condition or is it more of a symptom?

And that's something that we're going to be looking at as well.

And again,

The number to call in is 202-570-7057.

I would love to get your perspective or have a conversation with you about anxiety because it's something that I didn't for a long time address myself.

Obviously it's dealt with PTSD,

Somebody that has dealt with severe trauma and a lot of times for those of us that are former first responders,

Myself being eight years in the Coast Guard and 13 years as a professional firefighter EMT,

We keep ourselves busy so we don't have to address PTSD or anxiety or the things that come with that.

Health issues and something that I've experienced even this year in 2019 has been a very difficult year just dealing with low testosterone and adrenals and supplements and counseling.

And a lot of it is driven by anxiety.

And one of the quotes I wanted to start off with today,

A place that I follow called healthyplace.

Com and they're really good at inspiring people and something that I like to do myself as an inspirer is to help people address and to get their perspective and do a little spiritual prospecting for spiritual transformation,

Spiritual healing.

And of course your own spiritual goal and whatever that means to you.

And anxiety is something I thought I would bring to the airwaves for this podcast to give you some examples of what to look for.

Talk about anxiety,

Knowing that it's not an actual thing that somebody is born with.

You're not born with anxiety.

You know,

When whatever your belief system is,

When God is making people do incarnate here on the physical planet,

Blonde hair,

Dark hair,

Light skin,

Dark skin,

Blue eyes,

Green eyes,

What have you,

God doesn't just go,

Hey,

I'm going to give this person anxiety and then to help them with their journey and just be hypersensitive to everything around them.

I found in this journey that anxiety is really about processing what is going on around you in your external environment.

And one of the quotes that I really enjoyed when I started thinking about this topic to talk about on today's show,

It talks about that my anxiety is silent.

You wouldn't even notice a change on the outside,

But I'm honestly so stressed I can't even manage simple tasks.

People call me lazy when in reality I'm just overwhelmed.

And you know,

I'm sharing that with you and that quote from healthyplace.

Com for the fact that something exactly what I went through,

I started to realize that I didn't find things in life as exciting or as rewarding as I once used to.

And I stopped in a sense,

And even in my own mind,

I thought I was calling myself lazy because I just couldn't manage simple tasks.

And it's not that I'm being lazy,

It's just because I was so overwhelmed.

A lot of us go out into life and we were really good at putting a mask on and a smile on our face,

Especially if you work in the corporate world or I have a day job,

Part time day job with the federal government and everybody's really good about putting on that face and that mask,

But underneath they're just suffering in silence as I like to say.

And that's not a fun place to be because again,

Anxiety is silent and it's usually a symptom of something.

It's not a condition that you're born with.

It is usually due to social conditioning,

Things that you've gone through in your life,

Whether it's a shakening that's caused the awakening,

Whether it is a trauma,

Like for me,

The trauma started back when I was 27 years of age with the murder of my brother,

Followed three days later by the diagnosis of my older brother with terminal brain cancer,

Followed by the deterioration of my father-in-law at the age of 47 to multiple sclerosis.

So all three of those events happening at the same time is really when I started to have an understanding of what anxiety is,

Not knowing that years later I'd be suffering from PTSD,

Which is post-traumatic stress disorder.

And anxiety and PTSD,

Those are all disorders that we can all go through.

And like I said,

At any given moment,

There are over 20 million people around the planet that suffer,

Especially here in the United States,

With everything that we're going through historically,

Politically,

Religiously,

Social media,

The news outlets,

Everything is just going a mile a minute and it's just really fast paced.

And that can actually drive anxiety.

That can drive that confusion that,

Like I said,

Just performing simple tasks,

Whether it's rapid eye blinking or just being hypersensitive to where you can't process.

Hypersensitivity is a reaction or intolerance that refers to an undesirable reaction produced by what we would call the normal immune system,

Including allergies and autoimmunity.

And hypersensitivity,

When you are overwhelmed with so many things,

You just almost shut down.

It's too much for the nervous system to process undesirable reactions and the immune system then goes into overdrive,

If you will,

And that's where we get into hypersensitivity.

So if you notice somebody that is really just,

I have to say,

I've got a really good network of colleagues and friends that have really been keeping an eye on me and worried about me because I've kind of gone off the grid a little bit and kind of not had been as inactive and inspiring as I once was over this last year of 2019.

And kind of not doing simple tasks and they asked me,

Hey,

Are you not yourself?

Or are you just not wanting to do it?

Are you being lazy?

And I finally said,

No,

I think I'm dealing with something that I don't know how to deal with.

And long story short,

Ended up being low testosterone.

For you guys out there that are middle aged like myself,

Pay attention to your hormones.

It's something that we don't always talk about,

But I had no testosterone in my body because over the years of being hypersensitive,

Responding to other people's tragedies,

My anxiety kicked in and releases cortisol,

Which is a stress hormone into the body that helps protect the body,

Fight or flight mechanism,

If you will.

And the testosterone works just like insulin works to regulate for somebody that might be diabetic,

Testosterone regulates to move stress out of the body,

To move cortisol out of the body.

And this is something that was taught to me by my natural path.

I had no idea why I was exhibiting foggy brain or fatigue or just being lazy and not wanting to engage with anything.

And I even myself knew that that was a problem.

I just thought,

Well,

Maybe I'm working through some depression of things that have come to light in 2019 and just dealing with that.

So real quick,

Let me just turn this off.

When you're,

When you're live on the air and your heater kicks on,

Boy,

That really is loud in your speakers.

So sorry about that.

My actual heater decided that wanted to turn on and all I could hear was the heater running.

So it's a little bit cold here in Seattle,

So I'm not used to having my heaters on.

So you may have heard a little bit of wind there.

But what I was saying was,

For us guys,

We don't think about low testosterone or adrenals,

Which is connected to our immune system and our nervous system.

And when we're impacted and hypersensitive and dealing with trauma,

Dealing with stress,

It really can bring you to a place of fatigue,

Of not wanting to do simple tasks.

Now I didn't realize I'd have to give myself a weekly shot probably for the rest of my life,

But that's part of what I've done as a first responder and part of what my doctor said is being Pavlov's dog,

Which is social conditioning to my environment.

So anxiety,

When you hear somebody say that they're an anxious person,

They're not really born with anxiety.

They're not an anxious person.

They're more of just trying to process and,

Or they are,

Maybe they're so hypersensitive or empathic that they don't know how to process.

And if you don't know how to process,

Then like I said,

It's kind of the system ends up shutting down and that's,

You know,

Corresponded to anxiety,

Depression,

You know,

Sensitivity being an empathic.

And it's not a bad thing guys,

Just because you have anxiety or PTSD or depression,

You are not broken.

It's just finding new ways to process and to deal with anxiety.

And today's show,

That's what we're going to be talking about,

Beating anxiety.

I'm going to take you through a nice meditation when we come back from the break,

Going to give you some ways of moving into healthy living 101.

It's something I created back because I remember my college days,

Taking my,

You know,

101 courses to begin my college journey.

And it's kind of the same thing with life.

We were always learning.

We're always moving into those 101 classes.

And so I'm going to give you some tips on better living 101,

Going to go over some of my medical intuition charts about the different chakras and dealing with anxiety and just different ways that you can beat anxiety,

Depression,

PTSD,

And move past that.

Again,

It's something that's a condition.

It's a symptom.

You are not broken.

If you go through this,

Whether you're a man or a woman,

It's just now prospecting to ways to fix and to work through some of your struggles to heal,

To transform,

To transcend.

So you can move into a place of happiness,

Move into a place of peace,

Move into a place of living again so you don't feel like you're overwhelmed and feeling lazy and fatigued or foggy brain.

Again,

There's a lot of symptoms that come with anxiety.

So again,

Rapid eye blinking,

Fatigue,

Feeling lazy,

Not wanting to engage,

Nothing makes you happy.

These are all signs of anxiety and depression.

And again,

The immune system,

Not knowing how to respond to all the many different moving parts that we are going through.

I always say that anxiety isn't weakness,

Living with anxiety,

Turning up and doing stuff with anxiety takes strength most will never know.

So it does take great strength to first have awareness.

And I'll be giving you the FAR technique,

Something that I've used in my own journey to help me go farther in my path,

My spiritual journey,

My physical journey,

My mental journey,

My emotional journey,

And of course my spiritual journey.

But having anxiety is not a weakness and you're not broken.

It's just you're not knowing how to either process it,

To deal with it,

And what your perception is of anxiety,

Which in society,

Unfortunately,

If you have depression or PTSD or anxiety,

Then you're viewed upon as being broken.

And I'm here today with this show to inspire you and to encourage you and to get you thinking outside the box that anxiety is just a symptom.

And when we come back from our first break,

We will address some ways of beating anxiety.

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I'll be taking calls 202-570-7057.

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Depression,

PTSD,

Let's have a chat.

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Today we're talking about beating anxiety.

Before the break I was talking about what anxiety is.

I clear my throat here.

We're talking about anxiety as a symptom.

It's not something that you're born with.

You can be diagnosed with anxiety or hypersensitivity or depression or PTSD but a lot of times this is an overcoming event,

Something that you just need to learn how to process,

Something that I had to first become familiar with.

One of the techniques that I love to use and help people in their daily journey of dealing with anxiety is what I call the FAR technique,

F-A-A-R-R.

The first one is to feel what's going on,

What's going on in your external environment,

What comes into your orbit,

What comes into your awareness.

When we feel stuff versus always thinking it,

We feel it,

We have awareness to it,

We acknowledge it,

Those are the first three letters of the FAR and then we start to respond to that.

That's the first R in the FAR technique and then the second R is releasing it.

Now again,

Let me recap,

Feeling it,

Awareness to it,

Acknowledging it,

Responding to it and releasing it.

When you can use this technique or what I call the FAR technique,

You can go farther in your physical journey,

In your spiritual journey and just in life in general.

A lot of times we have to feel it because if we don't feel it and acknowledge it,

Sometimes it comes back later in life and it bites us in the butt and that's kind of what happened to me with my own journey.

A lot of what I'm sharing is basically stuff that I've either dealt with and gone through,

Whether it's through trauma,

Whether it's spiritual awakening,

I do a lot of work psychically and mediumship work,

Walking between worlds,

Working with things I see and working with things I don't see but I actually feel.

I had to work through feeling a lot of my history,

My past and things that had happened to me but also acknowledging that and having a sense of I guess healing and an attitude for gratitude that I acknowledge it,

That I no longer have to hold on to it and I can release that and that helps with your anxiety.

So feel it,

Have awareness to what's going on,

Acknowledge,

Respond and again sometimes not responding is a response.

So don't feel just because I'm saying respond that you actually have to respond to something,

Whether it's something on social media which we're really good at doing right now,

Everybody has an opinion and wants to respond to everything.

Sometimes just being the observer and not responding to things is an actual response in itself and it can actually bring you a lot more peace and satisfaction by not responding and then just acknowledging how you best release that.

Do you release that mentally?

Do you write it down on a piece of paper and crumple it up and put in the garbage,

Light it on fire,

Put it in a bottle,

Put it in the freezer and freeze it out so you have a mental construct of what that looks like but as far as using that technique,

The FAR technique if you use it daily because again the only thing that matters is what's going on and what I call the magic of the moment on your journey today listening to this radio show,

This podcast because your imagination creates a future that's not guaranteed and your past is created by your memories and you can't go back and change those either.

So I always remind people the importance of being in the magic of the moment,

Finding power in the now.

You know Eckhart Tolle wrote a book on the power of now and that's why it's such an international bestseller because there's a lot of truth of dealing with the now and being here in the now and dealing with that.

So you know there's that old saying yesterday is history,

Tomorrow is a mystery,

Today is a gift.

That is why we call this the present.

So what are you doing in your journey right now for your present?

What kind of present are you opening?

Are you opening a present filled with depression,

Anxiety,

PTSD,

Negativity,

Doubt or are you opening a present that's full of inspiration and hope and transformations and healing and encouragement and moving forward in your life?

One of the things that has really helped me in finding ways to be happier and calmer when it comes to anxiety is to recognize that I'm doing the best that I can and that's all I can expect from myself.

A great book out there if you haven't read it's called The Four Agreements.

I refer to it often,

I remind my clients and those that I'm teaching and mentoring to come back to The Four Agreements because there's a lot of truth.

I think there's five agreements now with the rewrite but I've always gone back just to The Four Agreements.

Doing what you say you're going to do,

Do your best at what you're going to do,

Don't make assumptions and don't take things personally because when you get outside of that scope you start to take things personally.

The ego wants to jump in,

The competition wants to jump in,

The anxiety wants to jump in and if you are making assumptions a lot of times that mind is so powerful when you make assumptions a lot of them aren't true and a lot of the energy that you're spending on assumptions in the what if world and forecasting for something that never comes into fruition you're wasting your time.

One of the ways that I work on finding happiness and being calmer in my daily journey,

The moment of my journey is I recognize that I'm doing the best that I can and that's all I can expect from myself.

A lot of times we have a lot of expectations and in my journey and in my experiences the more expectations we have of people,

Of this world,

Of ourselves the more self-disappointment we're going to run into and when we have self-disappointment come into our soul adventure,

Our journey,

Our health,

Our families,

Our friends,

It just causes strife,

It causes division,

It causes stress,

It causes anxiety,

It causes all the things that we don't want.

So recognize that you're doing your best.

I'm doing my best right now for this radio show.

I recognize that I'm here,

I'm present,

I'm on the OMTimes Radio platform doing my best to deliver a message talking about beating anxiety.

That's today's message and not expecting a lot for myself.

Just sharing my journey of what I've gone through over the last decade from my brothers have been gone in the spirit world for almost 20 years now but it's been 20 years in working through my own transformations and the caterpillar if you will going through the cocoon phase of the struggle within that cocoon becoming the butterfly and the transformation or the lotus flower growing up something bigger and better than itself out of the mud and the muck.

There's all sorts of analogies about how to move forward and now I just recognize that I'm doing the best that I can with the time that I have here and the magic of the moment because again guys your greatest commodity is your time.

It's not money and I hate to say this because you don't get to take the stuff you buy with you when you transfer back into the spirit world or the etheric world or heaven whatever your belief system is and it really is your time that is your greatest commodity.

So what are you doing today right now in the magic of the moment as you hear my voice to make the best of time to make the best of your life.

I always say journaling daily can be very very beneficial because you're writing a lot of what you're feeling down on paper you're bringing it out of your conscious mind into your physical reality which carries energy with that.

So some of you may be saying what is journaling how and why is it important to journal because it creates an intention and energy in the laws of physics and in the laws of metaphysics we talk about intentions and how energy follows that intention so by writing it down on paper and journaling daily and having that attitude for gratitude and counting your blessings if you will it creates a more positive vibration in your aura field your energy and that ripples out into the world and you know just you know whatever journaling if you're not a writer you know journaling can be also digital you can also record it into with the technology that we have I've got an iPhone and it's got voice notes and I can do voice notes and you record that write it on paper I don't know I'm trying to think of another way type it out in the email and send it to yourself there's many ways to do journaling versus just pen and paper digitally voice and or email but I always find just sometimes less is more just go back to the roots of paper and pen it's been around for millennia since they started you know chiseling out of stone and making paper so I always go back to the basics but you know these are ways to feel happier to feel calmer to process anxiety because like I said the process of anxiety is not something that you're born with it's a condition it's a symptom of how you are processing or not processing you gotta think about that as well you know because a lot of times the brain is very very powerful we have a great amazing super computer in our head that's why it lives in between what we call two temples it's a temple unto itself and we we think therefore we are we have consciousness we have a way of connecting but sometimes it can be a curse because we overthink stuff as well we tend to have these what I call these drunken monkeys in our mind running around with all these different theories and concepts you don't need to listen to every thought in your head guys you don't have to you know believe everything that you've been told you know I talked on my show on Monday about prudence and listening and learning and making an informed decision with what's going on and there's a lot coming at us with technology and social media and news and politics and religion and violence in the world so be use prudence and learning to incorporate wisdom into your journey because prudence prudence is making informed decisions being informed what's right for you and processing some of that information you know I always say that overthinking will destroy your happiness and your mood it will make everything worse than it actually is the mind wants to make things more serious than what it is so take a deep breath exhale that breath change your mind focus to having faith to having hope you know what's meant to be will be you can't always you know control what's going on in your world so take another deep breath and exhale these are all just little techniques just to help calm the mind because again that overthinking stimulates anxiety and stimulates stress stimulates to where the body the nervous system you become hypersensitive and the adrenals or your testosterone or your hormones or your nervous system stop working as they should and you're always in a sense of fight or flight you know going from one thing to the next one thing to the next and what happens is if you're not into a place of homeostasis and that's a place of being right centered a place of balance homeostasis make sure to look that up what happens is the body starts to be at disease or disease with itself and that's where we start having sorts of all sorts of ailments whether it's medical physical emotional spiritual I mean then want to take pills and now we've just made the problem worse when a lot of it can be holistically approached and dealing with how you're even just processing information and it all starts with what I call the spiritual ABCs breath awareness connecting breath awareness connecting so take five to ten minutes if you can and you're a very busy crazy chaotic life that you are living just take five to ten minutes to meditate just simply sit in the silence a good practice that I do is in the shower I know that I'm not going to be disturbed the water is rushing over my body water is a great conduit of energy and just sit for a second listen to the water running over the body listen to the water going down the drain there's a lot of answers that can be connected to in the silence great philosophers great gurus of history past have talked about the answers lie in the silence Rumi is very big and I use him all the time about the more silent and still we become the more we actually hear and again stillness and quietness because when you sit in stillness we relax the brain when we move that triggers consciousness that the brain goes oh I need to move my arm and then your brain is not resting so try to get to a place of silence and stillness just for five to ten minutes it doesn't have to be two hours you don't need to sit in a certain pose and wear certain clothes and do all that you know hubbub just sit with yourself in a place where there's no distractions like I said for me it's in the in the shower in a meditative room in a quiet room put on a some noise reducing headphones and just move into five to ten minutes of meditation and sitting in the silence for those of you that prayer that have prayer or belief in prayer that's thought going out those are your wants and desires in life what do you want that's prayer but are you listening back to what meditation can bring to your life and your journey in a way of beating anxiety a lot of us don't meditate we're really good at praying and what we want but we're not necessarily sitting back to listen to that ripple effect to come back of what we're asking for spend time with safe friends and family don't be afraid to ask for support guys like I said in the beginning anxiety is silent and you wouldn't even notice a change on the outside but if people are open and honest and that they're stressed and that they're overwhelmed and you know whether people are calling you lazy or you're yourself calling yourself lazy like I was not knowing that I suffered from literally having no testosterone in my body I just thought man I'm getting old I'm getting lazy not working out not you know just fatigued foggy having clarity of mind or focus and come to find out it's your hormones and now I have to you know regulate that and I'm okay with that because I feel ten times a thousand times a million times better than what I was the last six months of 2019 and you know I reached out to some friends some people that helped educate me you know fan safe friends people that are going to support you not play devil's advocate not you know try to be an antagonist or a catalyst of what you know they want to see for your life but safe friends that really support you your authentic self and they're going to tell you the true truth they're going to give you the truth and not fluff it those are what I call safe friends and family if you have safe friends and family that don't be afraid to ask for support take care of your health you know eat well sleep well drink lots of water get that you know water intake is very very important just even waking up in the first thing in the morning drink a lot of water because your body's already dehydrated so a lot of a lot of times I do the 80-20 focus 20% on problems and 80% on solutions how can you find how can you leave things better than how you found it and sometimes that's not an easy place to go especially if you're suffering from anxiety and depression or PTSD because it's usually just the opposite it's about 80% focus on the problems and 20% on the solutions so try to use the 80-20 format of what what is 20% of focusing on the problem at hand or what's 80% of finding the solution to that problem and let go of what you can't control guys it's you know it's so important like I said just recognize that you're doing the best you can't control everything in life you can only control what comes into your journey how you respond to that that's the only thing you're really ever in control of and you know like my mentors taught me a lot of times the problem is irrelevant no matter what you're dealing with it's about how you approach it what your thoughts are to that problem so let me say that again your problems are irrelevant it's how you respond to the problem that's the most important what you overcome you know people say oh that can't be done you know I've listened to a lot of pundits and experts and a lot of times I don't get the stuff right even though they're expert experts I don't know if I've ever seen a statue erected in the form of a skeptic or a pundit so you know a lot of times I believe you know through prudence being informed and making a sound informed decision for my journey not what other people say and I 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And welcome back to inspire living radio I'm your host Mark Lane heart the intuitive prospector talking about beating anxiety beating depression beating PTSD things that are symptoms not conditions that you have to live with for the rest of your life I always like to say that you know when it comes to anxiety and beating anxiety anxiety is like a rocking chair it gives us something to do but it does not take it very far if you think about a rocking chair so if you're sitting with anxiety it's like sitting in that rocking chair are you moving very far is it taking you to where you want to go to find joy and happiness and peace and move past I always say that you know if I get nervous about everything sometimes I literally don't know why I'm anxious I just am and no one seems to understand that and that's a lot of truth sometimes it's just the processing of what's coming into your environment what's coming into through your eyes to your brain and how you're processing that information we're going to be doing a quick meditation so you can kind of sit for five minutes and just sit with what is anxiety for you what is depression what is PTSD some of the things that you know I like to remind people into keeping ways of you know easing the anxiety or the depression when it comes into your mind again it's more of a processing are you going too fast are you moving too quick so I find in ways to ease the anxious mind the monkeys that are running around your mind slow down take the time to disconnect so you have the time to reconnect you know a lot of times when you have anxiety and I've experienced this myself it's your thoughts are racing you may have rapid eye movement or blinking of the eyes the heart is pounding heavily out of your chest almost it feels at times like you're having a heart attack I remember when I first had my first anxiety panic attack I literally thought I was having a heart attack they rushed me to the hospital put me on a DKG 12 lead DKG my heart was fine they're like you're just having a panic attack because I was dealing with so much between my brother being murdered five murder trials to go through my brother in a nursing home at the age of 34 dying from brain cancer and then just burying my father-in-law from multiple sclerosis so it was a very much to take on traumatically the trauma of it and I just felt like I couldn't catch my breath and everything was going a mile a minute and that's really kind of you know through those events through those soul adventures even as tragic and sad that they are it began my spiritual journey to where I find myself today talking and connecting with you here through the sound radio waves or you know doing a reading here in my studio or connecting with somebody all the way across the world through a video and it's through biofeedback it's addressing how I'm processing for information and ways to slow down ways to bring your breath into the body and really slow the heart rate so it doesn't feel like it's pounding out of your chest so slow down take the time to disconnect so you can find the time to reconnect come to your senses as I like to say take a few minutes just to connect with what I call the senses we all have our five senses see it taste it touch it hear it smell it so use aromatherapy to smell it touch an object that's that maybe brings you peace or calmness whether that's a crystal or a stone or a rock or gardening to get your hands into the dirt but come back to the magic in the moment even just the sounds a singing bowl or my chimes my famous chimes here take a deep breath with me these are coming to your senses these are ways of beating anxiety that's what we're talking about today ways of beating anxiety dealing with anxiety overcoming anxiety because again just when you think you have a beat it's going to creep back up and come into your journey because there's going to be more life coming at you and I always remind people that life is an acronym learn it from experience because it's going to be experience and if you just sit with this anxiety like a rocking chair and you don't address it you're just going to sit and marinate in it and keep percolating and realize why you're not moving forward spend time with people who bring out the best in you not those that stress you out this is something I've really been dealing with in my own journey personally with family and friends and really kind of limiting you know my interactions with people that only stress me out or what I call triggers or antagonist that only cause you to feel that anxiety or anger or resentment try to spend time with people who bring out the best in you not the worst in you use your five senses slow down do a reality check you know ask yourself is this thought that I'm going that I have going in my brain is it actually true or is it something that I've heard or something some somebody said something you know whether it's you know words that have been you know transferred to us or projected onto us or you know if you know the term gaslighting a lot of gaslighting going on right now in our society guys false narratives false news fake news whatever you want to call that that's where prudence comes in and learning and wisdom because you're making an informed decision and you know asking yourself and using your senses you are the equipment use your senses to come to the best thought possible and ask yourself is this thought absolutely true and just feel with it use that far technique feel with that thought have awareness to the thought acknowledge the thought respond to the thought or not respond to it and release it just like osmosis is water passing through a membrane our thoughts anywhere between 50 and 60,

000 thoughts on a given day pass through our brain what I say is a flesh membrane like osmosis and you need to process in whatever way is right for you on what thoughts are actually true what thoughts are not and are your your thoughts making things more realistic or more heightened and intense and they really need to be chances are your worst fears are just that fears and I always remind people fear for me is false evidence appearing real somebody that's spent many years as a first responder I know what true fear looks like whether it's going into a rushing into a burning building why other people are running out going on a sinking boat worrying about if it's going to take me under in the body does one of three things in a real fearful situation the body knows it's going to fight flight or freeze in any given situation anything other than that we're creating it within our mind so chances are your worst fears are just that your own fears that you've created a false evidence appearing real so use your senses slow down do a reality check these are all little techniques that you can do I always say release the inner critic release that person that loves to do self-sabotage you know find ways to be kinder to yourself like I was saying you know with the the ways of being happier and calmer you know recognize that you're doing the best that you can and you're right where you need to be these are all tips to help you you know sometimes I just say go outside touch a tree hug a tree lay down look at the sky know that you're part of something bigger than your self and you know cloud watching can be very relaxing bird watching can be very relaxing do things that quiet the mind and of course listen listen to your body know your triggers listen to the words coming into you know a lot of times it you know you can be very proactive and limiting what comes into your environment that causes you know anything that causes catalysts of triggers or you know people that you know want to create strife and they're in there out there so you know get enough sleep and what you're doing you know try to declutter the brain if you can smile more from less you know there's that thing about how many muscles it takes to smile versus how many muscles it takes to frown my grandma used to say turn that frown upside down and pull that lip in our birds gonna come poop on that on your lip so declutter the brain just like we have physical clutter we have mental clutter as well and sometimes it can be very messy in our mind so you've got to find ways to relax and you know you know take those 50 15 20 30 minutes just to tidy up your brain just like you do in your living space you know you clean you tidy it up the same works with your brain declutter the blame the brain express gratitude try to have an attitude for gratitude when you're feeling down try to find what I call the grateful I ate things that I'm grateful for pay attention to the foods that you're eating you know are you eating a lot of unhealthy foods a lot of sugars a lot of junk food that can really impact you know the hormones in your body and how your body reacts and how it regulates your body learn to breathe breath is very very powerful tool it's easy it's free it has unlimited resources so make sure that you're tapping into breathing true breathing deep and we're gonna do that real quick just for the sake of time got a quick waterfall meditation that I want to do with you talking about the power of breath meditation creating vision boards playing around being silent and what I want you to do is I want you just to take a nice deep breath with me let's move into the magic of the moment and as you're sitting here what I want you to do is I want you to imagine that you're in a beautiful forest high in the mountains and you are seated comfortably on a moss covered rock a short distance from a high waterfall and in the distance you can hear this waterfall it lands in the deep pool before flowing further downstream just like in life always moving forward never knowing what's around the next bend the river is surrounded by tall evergreen trees that provide a high canopy and shade as you sit on this moss covered rock you notice that the air is cool it's comfortable and you feel a gentle breeze blowing through the trunks of the trees around you taking a nice deep breath breathing in love breathing in connection breathing in gratitude releasing stress releasing anxiety beating anxiety now imagine for a moment that you can feel all of your frustrations and negative emotions physically in your body imagine that they are all manifested as a kind of tar or sludge that has accumulated in different areas throughout your body maybe it's in your bones the thoughts in your brain your connective tissues of your joints the soft tissues of your body any fears any negative thoughts or feelings any emotions that you would like to let go imagine that these are all trapped within your body and in this sludge could you stay with this feeling in a moment even if it's a little bit unpleasant addressing your anxiety addressing your depression addressing your negative thoughts or your PTSD even how unpleasant it is or challenging it is just sit with that feeling for a second as we get ready to release this all into the pool of the waterfall that flows before us as we sit on this moss covered rock taking another nice deep breath could you let go of any resistance to these thoughts or emotions and let them be here in your body for just a second more just for the now just be here for a moment and feel what you feel accepting that this is truth this is your reality and you have a choice to reject it or accept it you have a choice do you want anxiety to be a part of your life be in that rocking chair it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you very far or do you want to release all of the anxiety the depression the stress the worry the fear into this beautiful pool of the waterfall as it moves farther downstream you have a choice you are in charge of this you decide you have a choice is there any part of you that is grateful for what these negative emotions taught you in the past on your journey into this moment if there is stay here with the feeling of gratitude for just a little while if there's not that's okay could you accept that too and remain in the moment and surrender to whatever you are feeling right now now imagine that you're standing up and walking over towards the base of the waterfall this beautiful magnificent waterfall before you the spray falling over your face the gentle breeze you feel a faint mist of water hitting your face and your arms that gets you stronger and stronger as you approach closer to this beautiful waterfall the waterfall of your life just as all your negative emotions are now physically manifested in your body this waterfall is a physical manifestation of pure source energy and connection to being this is the moment where you decide to release your stress to release your anxiety your depression your PTSD things that hold you back things that help that keep you from your authentic higher self at the base of the waterfall at the water's edge this is your choice this is where you can release and move forward into joy and happiness or sit to hold on to these negative thoughts feelings emotions that cause anxiety take a second to understand what you want to do with this you have a choice you have a choice do you want to hold on and get dragged with this through life or do you want to let go and be free the choice is always your own take another nice deep breath breathe in what you want releasing what you don't and make your choice right now on what you'd like to do on beating anxiety beating depression beating stress beating fear beating your PTSD whatever it is for you and so it is the choice is always yours to make I want to thank you for hanging out with me today on today's show talking about beating anxiety I'll be here after the holidays I want to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas Happy Holidays and a new year to you as we move into a new decade of 2020 it's always an honor and a privilege to connect with you and I look forward to what 2020 is going to bring for all of us again dare to dream dare explore dare to live and most importantly to our next soul adventure together be kind be caring be compassionate and I'll see you for another episode of inspired living radio here on the old times radio network namaste you