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“Anytime you’re stressed or caught up in anxiety, you take your attention off this story. There’s a narrative that accompanies it. You turn your attention inside your body, and you locate where the stuck emotion is, or the tension or heaviness inside your body. It will be in your solar plexus, your chest, or in your throat the majority of the time.

Then here’s what you do. You silently say to it, “I’m pleased you’re here,” and you breathe. And what happens, you shift from fighting this emotion, going into your head to escape it, to turning towards it, and opening up to it, and facing it. Then this is the real key bit. You then get a sense of where that trapped energy, ’cause that’s just what anxiety is, is just trapped energy, you get a sense of where it wants to exit your body.

‘Cause all energy wants to flow through your body. Does it want to come out your mouth? Down your arms or legs? Out of your head? And all you do is, you just patiently stay with it, get a sense of where it wants to exit, and you’re gonna be blown away, ’cause what’s gonna happen is, it’s gonna start moving. It’ll probably move up and out of your mouth.

And what happens is, you start allowing this energy to pour out of you. Then as the energy pours out, the anxiety comes out, that trapped energy no longer fuels the overthinking that perpetuates the anxiety. You’ve gone to some of the root source.” -Dr. Mark Atkinson from Bulletproof Radio Podcast