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if you're experiencing physical symptoms
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if you're getting scary intrusive
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obsessive thoughts feelings of unreality
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like depersonalization derealization the
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weird emotions like feelings of sadness
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or a sense of impending doom you may
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notice that your symptoms are the most
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intense in the morning and even if you
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feel fine in the evening you'll notice
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the next day you wake up and you feel
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like you got hit by a truck all your
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symptoms come back and you wonder is
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this something i'm always going to have
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to wake up to is this something that i'm
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always going to be experiencing every
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morning and it might even try to
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convince you that there's something
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seriously wrong with you well in this
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video i want to explain to you how
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morning anxiety works and why you
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experience your most intense symptoms in
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the morning and more importantly by the
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end of the video i'll show you what to
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do to make this go away so that you
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could wake up feeling totally normal
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fine back to how you used to and not
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really deal with these symptoms long
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term so let's get started
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so the way i fell into the anxiety cycle
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was by having a panic attack and what
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happened was that after those panic
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attacks i actually got one and then i
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ended up getting more because i got
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terrified of having a panic attack so
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you can only imagine what happened i
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ended up naturally getting more panic
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attacks because nobody had explained to
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me what was going on and then what
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happened was that there would be times
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where i would experience panic attacks
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and then once the adrenaline burned
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itself off i was like okay well i'm
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clear i'm fine and then what would
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happen is the next morning i would wake
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up and i would wake up with heart
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palpitations i'd get really nauseous my
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stomach would be really upset i'd be
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waking up sweating or i may even be
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having very intrusive thoughts like oh
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my god this is back what if i never get
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better and i remember i would wake up
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every morning and no matter how i slept
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the night before it was just like all
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these symptoms came in and it made me
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think that there's something seriously
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wrong i never woke up like this i used
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to wake up just fine like everybody else
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but i would wake up almost like in this
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jolt and like this in the zap feeling
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and it made me think that okay no
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there's something seriously wrong and
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that's what started my health anxiety
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journey because i truly thought that
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there was something physically wrong
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with me and you might be going through
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that with your anxiety journey too you
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may notice that you're going through the
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cyclical pattern where you're
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experiencing the most intense symptoms
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in the morning and throughout the day
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now as i'm guiding people through
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overcoming this and having them go back
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to living i would say at this point i
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would say maybe about 70 percent of
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people that i meet really experience
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morning anxiety there is a small subset
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of people that experience anxiety in the
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evening and there's some people that
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experience anxiety all the time or it's
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on and off and it's not really cyclical
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but i notice 70 of people experience
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more anxiety and so you may be wondering
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why is this happening why are you
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experiencing such intense symptoms and
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what should you do to make it go away
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well before we talk about how to make it
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go away it's important to understand why
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it's happening and one of the most
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important things to understand is your
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nervous system and the reason why it's
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important to understand your nervous
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system is because one of the hormones
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that plays a huge factor into why you're
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experiencing these symptoms is cortisol
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now everybody has cortisol and everybody
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has different cycles of cortisol
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throughout the day
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meaning your cortisol spikes the highest
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in the morning
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okay now cortisol is a stress hormone it
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has a lot of functions but we're going
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to simplify what cortisol does for the
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sake of anxiety recovery now what's the
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purpose of having a cortisol spike in
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the morning okay now the reason why you
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have a cortisol spike in the morning is
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because it helps you wake up and it
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makes you start your day see everybody
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has a cortisol spike in the morning
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whether you have anxiety or not
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and it's really designed to help you get
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out of bed because if you didn't have
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that spike we would all be sleeping all
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day there would be no incentive to wake
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up so what the cortisol spike does is
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that it wakes you up it helps you get
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out of bed it helps you start your day
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it helps you get motivated to do things
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throughout the day so it's important to
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understand that cortisol has a good
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function and there's a reason for why it
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happens now you may be wondering okay
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fine i used to have cortisol and used to
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wake me up in the morning but now i'm
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experiencing intense symptoms is my
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cortisol levels higher well that's not
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actually the case see what happens is
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that because you're in this anxiety
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cycle what that means is that your
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nervous system has become very sensitive
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and what i mean by it being sensitive is
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that small stressors will cause your
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nervous system to overreact
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basic things that were really effortless
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for you at one point and stressors that
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were almost meaningless are now becoming
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very intense meaning your body and mind
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is overreacting to this now you might
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not just experience this in morning
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anxiety but you might notice you were
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enjoying coffee before you fell into the
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cycle and now you just take a sip of
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coffee and your heart starts palpitating
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or you may notice that with the
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pre-workout or you may notice small
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things like going to the grocery store
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which was very relaxing for you now seem
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like this scary task and it feels like
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what happens if you can't run away and
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even driving can become difficult right
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so the key to understand is that you
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have this nervous system that's designed
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to handle stress but because you're in
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the cycle what happens is that your
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nervous system has become very sensitive
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and so one of the consequences of that
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is that when you have the cortisol spike
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in the morning well your nervous system
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overreacts rather than just getting up
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and waking up normally like just
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easing your way into the day what it
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does is that it causes your nervous
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system to overreact now again there's a
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function for why your nervous system is
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sensitized it's designed to protect you
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from threats and if you were in a
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situation where your life was in danger
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you would want your body to wake up this
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way because what happens if a tiger came
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at you while you're sleeping you want to
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be alert and ready to go but here's the
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thing you're probably just at home with
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the air conditioner on a comfortable bed
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there's no threat but you're still
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experiencing this and because you're
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experiencing this in a situation where
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you're safe you may feel like well why
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is that happening there must be
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something wrong again it's just your
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nervous system is very sensitive at the
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moment and your body is overreacting a
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good analogy i like to give is imagine
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if you have like a cut on your arm yeah
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and imagine if you put salt on your arm
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when you have a cut you'll notice that
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it will sting that you will feel like a
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burning sensation now what's the issue
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is it because you're putting salt as
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salt to the issue it's not the salt what
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it is is that you have a cut on your arm
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and that's kind of the same with morning
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anxiety
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see it's not the cortisol spike that's
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the problem but the problem is that your
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nervous system is sensitized so because
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it's sensitized whenever you throw in a
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little bit of cortisol or in this case
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the example i'm giving is salt well you
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notice that there's some agitation
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and your nervous system doesn't like
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that so again the issue isn't the
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cortisol spike the issue is the fact
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that your nervous system is sensitized
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and so how do you overcome that how do
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you desensitize your nerves well the
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first thing to understand
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is that what you're experiencing is
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normal it's fine i know it's
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uncomfortable but you're not broken
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there's nothing abnormal happening your
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body is functioning exactly how it
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should
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now this should bring you some comfort
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this should make you feel at least a
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little bit at ease or okay there's
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nothing wrong with me i'm fine
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but you may also be going into the
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second part which is okay but what do i
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do to get this better what do i do to
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get this better well before you even get
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there it's really important to
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understand more about how the nervous
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system works see the nervous system is a
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little bit more complicated than just
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saying there's excess adrenaline and
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there's a cortisol spike it's really
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important to understand the mechanics of
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anxiety and if you're trying to focus
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too much on what do i do what do i do
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well it's that compulsive doing
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something about it that's keeping you in
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the cycle let me repeat
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one of the reasons why you might be in
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the cycle is because you're compulsively
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trying to do something to make this go
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away without understanding what's
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happening see people are trying to
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overcome their morning anxiety but then
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what i'll do is i'll ask them why are
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you experiencing morning anxiety and
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they don't know so it's very hard to fix
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something when you don't know what the
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problem is so before you focus on trying
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to fix this it's very important for you
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to take a step back and understand
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why this is happening and if you really
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want to know why this is happening how
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the mechanics of anxiety work how to
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really focus on the solution i've
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written a free ebook the link is down
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below you can download it you just put
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in your email and it will get sent to
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your email address it's something i wish
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i would have had in my journey and if
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somebody could have just explained it it
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would have clarified a lot of things so
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the link is down below it really breaks
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down the mechanics of anxiety how to
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respond and what to expect on your
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recovery journey so now you know the
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fact that this is caused by a cortisol
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spike now does that mean that the
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anxiety goes away no you're still going
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to be experiencing the symptoms but now
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at least you understand what's happening
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so what do you do to overcome it what do
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you do to make sure this goes away well
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the first thing you need to do is
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recognize that morning anxiety is going
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to be there a little bit longer it's
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just going to be and you're trying to
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speed up the process and trying to find
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ways to make the anxiety go away again
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is one of the reasons why it's staying
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alive if you're running away from
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something even if that's a symptom your
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nervous system is going to think that
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there's still a threat
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so recognize that you're still going to
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be having morning anxiety for a bit and
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here's what i would say here's what i
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did during my journey because i would
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wake up with terrible morning anxiety
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and when i did i didn't want to do
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anything i just wanted to stay at home i
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didn't want to i wanted to google search
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my symptoms i wanted to go to doctors i
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wanted to do more medical tests because
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if i could just figure out what was
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happening
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i could hopefully try to do something to
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make this go away and the problem was is
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that that never worked all it did was it
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kept me in the cycle longer
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so what i would recommend is
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accept that you're experiencing the
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symptoms right now and continue your day
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with the symptoms there side by side now
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i know what you're saying sean these
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symptoms are very debilitating they're
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very difficult it's very hard to do that
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but you still have to realize that
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what's happening is that your nervous
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system is sensitized
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and the way out of this long-term
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freedom is by
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not fighting it or resisting it there's
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really no way around it you have to
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allow it to be there and you just
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continue on with your day what i noticed
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over time was that my morning anxiety
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would hit me super early in the morning
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and sometimes it would start
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disappearing around maybe 5 or 6 p.m but
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as i continued on living and letting the
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symptoms be there and let the adrenaline
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burning itself off what i noticed is
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that instead of 5 p.m it would probably
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go away by 3 p.m and i started feeling
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better around 3 p.m and then i would
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just continue on my day
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and weeks would go by and what i would
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notice is that my symptoms would go away
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not at 3 pm but at 1 pm and then i would
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let more time go by and i was correctly
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responding and then instead of 1 pm it
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would end at 11 a.m and over time what
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happened was is that my morning anxiety
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went away on its own the symptoms that
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came with it disappeared on their own so
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i hope this clarifies a little bit about
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why you experience more anxiety the
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truth is when it comes to recovery
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there's a lot of components it's not
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just morning anxiety even if that's what
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you're experiencing right now recovery
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is about unlayering a lot of things and
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so what i've found is instead of trying
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to piecemeal your recovery and trying to
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figure it out along the way one of the
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best things you can do is find somebody
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who's overcome this and have them guide
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you through the journey rather than
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trying to figure it out on your own and
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dealing with the frustrations of trying
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to figure this out i've always found
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this most seamless uh most effective and
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least painful way is just by having
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somebody that you trust
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guide you through their journey and
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guide you through each step because the
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truth is that as you're getting better
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you'll hit different obstacles
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and also if you get stuck somewhere it's
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really hard for you to identify
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what's happening and why you're stuck
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because you're too close to the problem
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you're not objective enough to know
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exactly where things are going wrong and
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you're like in this haze of anxiety so
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what i always recommend is find somebody
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who's gone through this to guide you
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through the journey and really focus on
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long-term freedom because the biggest
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thing about anxiety recovery is
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recovering quickly and going back to
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living as quickly as possible and
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letting go of the subject so if you want
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that to be me you want that to be me and
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my team that's all we do we help people
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around the world fully overcome this go
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back to living
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you can click the link down below for
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mentorship this is where we'll guide you
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step by step along the way and you will
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be putting in the work but we'll be
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making sure that you're doing things
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correctly and we also want to see and
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make sure you're doing things right as
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well so the link is down below i hope
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you enjoy this video and i'll see you in
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the next one
