The Mindset Mentor - How to Overcome Anxiety Immediately

Episode Date: April 21, 2017

Episode 261 - Do you suffer from anxiety? When you are anxious what happens? Your heart beats faster, your cortisol levels raise, and your body prepares for something. The fight or flight mechanism kicks in. Panic attacks can also be a problem when it comes to anxiety and anxiety can paralyze a person and hold them back from their true potential and the life that they want. This is EXACTLY what happens to your body when you get excited as well. So what do you do? You replace anxiety with excitement. This is called anxiety reappraisal and I explain the technique in this video. Want to learn more about Mindset Mentor+? For nearly nine years, the Mindset Mentor Podcast has guided you through life's ups and downs. Now, you can dive even deeper with Mindset Mentor Plus. Turn every podcast lesson into real-world results with detailed worksheets, journaling prompts, and a supportive community of like-minded people. Enjoy monthly live Q&A sessions with me, and all this for less than a dollar a day. If you’re committed to real, lasting change, this is for you.Join here 👉 www.mindsetmentor.com My first book that I’ve ever written is now available. It’s called LEVEL UP and It’s a step-by-step guide to go from where you are now, to where you want to be as fast as possible.📚If you want to order yours today, you can just head over to robdial.com/bookHere are some useful links for you… If you want access to a multitude of life advice, self development tips, and exclusive content daily that will help you improve your life, then you can follow me around the web at these links here:Instagram TikTokFacebookYoutube

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when you get really anxious about something coming up, what happens? Your heart starts to beat really fast. The cortisol, which is the stress in your brain, actually raise. The cortisol levels raise and your body starts to get ready for something that's about to happen. It doesn't know what it is. It just knows it needs to prepare. Here's the crazy part about it. When you get excited, extremely excited about something, what happens? Your heart starts to beat really fast. The cortisol levels in your brain raise and your body gets ready for something. It's just not sure what it is. Does that sound familiar to you? Here's the crazy thing. When you are going through anxiety

and when you are excited about something, your body is doing the exact same thing. The exact same thing. So what do you do? You trick your brain into thinking you are excited when you are anxious. And I realize this sounds crazy. You're like, no, this is not possibly going to work. But in 2010, the University of Rochester did a study on this and found out that this is scientifically proven to work on subjects. When somebody gets very anxious, what they have them do is they had them close their eyes

and repeat to themselves over and over and over again. I am excited. I am excited. I am excited. I am excited. What did this do? It actually made them perform better than all of the other test subjects in their math tests. They scored better than everybody else. They also had people go and give a two-minute speech. The number one fear in the world is public speaking. They had them give a two-minute speech. The people who told themselves that they were excited before they actually went up and gave the speeches, they scored as more confident. They talked longer than everybody else, longer than the two minutes that they were supposed to, and before they went up and talked in front of somebody else, by telling themselves that they were excited when they thought that they were anxious, they actually performed better. Why is this?

Because our bodies will react the exact same way with anxiety as they will with excitement. But the secret is that we are in charge of the actual thoughts and the feelings that come from that, right? Our bodies react the same, but we're in charge of the feeling that we actually place on the way our bodies react. It's pretty crazy. This is how you can trick your body and trick your brain into thinking that

you're excited when you're anxious. So what happens, the secret, like I said, is we're in charge of the feelings that we place on the way our body reacts. And feelings come from thoughts. You control the thoughts that you attach to the feelings and those feelings attach to the way your body feels. If this doesn't show you how crazy our minds actually are, not sure what else really will. You can trick your brain into actually thinking it is excited when it is anxious. So next time you start to feel your heart pump,

next time you start to feel like stressed out, tell yourself, I'm excited, I'm excited, I'm excited. This is something that is called anxiety reappraisal. You can Google it if you like to. Anxiety reappraisal. You're actually doing something in your brain by telling it exactly the feelings and the thoughts that you want it to have that attach to the feelings that are actually happening inside of your body. So that quick tip, whenever you feel anxiety, whenever you feel anxious, whenever you feel a panic attack, start to tell yourself, I am excited, I am excited, I am excited. And what will happen, because we all know that if you start thinking a

thought and it's a negative thought, if you start feeling anxiety and you think about that negative anxiety, you could tailspin and considerably make yourself worse and worse. But if you actually think about the right things and attach the right feelings and thoughts to it, you can change the way that you perform based on what you're telling your body you feel. So that is the quick tip for you. If you like this episode,

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