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hi you guys Katie here head coach at
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reorigin where you learn to retrain your
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brain and reclaim your health I'm here
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with our co-founder Ben and uh we're
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going to talk about how you can break
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the cycle of that tricky morning anxiety
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why don't you take it away for us then
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yeah so sometimes you may have
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experienced waking up first thing in the
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morning and all of a sudden the brain
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gets activated right and there's a
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reason why that happens in the morning
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is when we typically have the highest
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levels of cortisol and cortisol we know
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is sometimes considered as a stress
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hormone I like to think of it as an
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energy hormone it gives us energy that
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is then meant to be
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utilized and sometimes if we don't
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utilize this energy um with our bodies
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it can tend to make its way up to our
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mind our brain and manifest in
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overthinking getting overwhelmed with
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what we perceive we have to do that day
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and it can start this cycle of morning
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anxiety yeah and often times this can
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grow and grow and like we find ourselves
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waking up and just going a little bit
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dear in the headlights one of the quotes
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that we love we've mentioned it before
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in this channel is that never in the
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history of being told to calm down has
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anyone actually ever calm down right and
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that is because we don't think our way
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out of anxiety as much as we sometimes
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try and do that we actually need to move
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our way out of anxiety you might have
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experienced that
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sometimes the brain serves you up this
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thing that we maybe we perceive it as
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being like a problem and we just keep
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ruminating on it we're not really
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getting anywhere right we're just
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thinking about it from different angles
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and trying to tackle it and we never
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really get to the bottom of it I had
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this roommate back in college I won't
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mention your name his name um but he
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used to be obsessed with trying to beat
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certain levels on video games and I
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remember sometimes he would get so into
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it that hours would go by he would just
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keep on trying again and again and again
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to beat this level and I told him one
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time you know you realize there's
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another option here right he thought in
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his mind that the option is between like
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win or lose solve it or not and the
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other option I says you could you could
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turn off the game and you could go
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outside it's a beautiful day right take
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a break this is actually known in
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behavioral psychology as repetition
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compulsion and it's that urge that drive
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that sense of urgency that we have to
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try and solve problems with thinking
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yeah and when it comes to M anxiety
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because as we mentioned the real root of
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the issue is simply the presence of a
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chemical that gives us this energy and
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sometimes nervous energy feeling the way
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forward is not is rarely to think our
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way out of it a better approach is to
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move out of it so what I like to do what
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I found really helpful is to set up the
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most simple possible morning routine you
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can possibly think of in this day and
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age morning routines are super popular
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Everyone likes to talk about their
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really elaborate 12ep three-hour morning
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routine this isn't that this is not that
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I'm not going to actually give you a
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specific routine because I think it's
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helpful to come uh come up with it on
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your own but I can certainly share some
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examples of things that I do and that
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have helped me and pretty much it just
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involves sometimes thinking of one thing
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so if I find my my mind spinning up in
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the morning maybe I'll say okay this is
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this is that morning anxiety coming
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instead of doing that you know trying to
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solve that problem I'm just going to
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imagine myself getting out of bed and
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stretching my arms overhead and taking a
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deep breath or something and then I'll
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say okay uh and I'll just go and do that
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and the act of getting your body into
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motion actually starts to already break
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that cycle other things you can do are
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get up go outside if you have access to
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doing that go for a slow walk can be in
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nature or even just a slow walk across
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your living room
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but getting yourself moving slowly
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fluidly deliberately this is the way
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that we actually start to use up that
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cortisol that is meant to serve you
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meant to give you energy and allow it to
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start to dissipate yeah absolutely I
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think I mean it's so valuable the the
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envisioning especially right just
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envisioning ourselves choosing a
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different route choosing to do something
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a little bit different from what we were
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normally doing before right we're
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interrupting old pathways these these
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Pathways of of rumination of repetition
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compulsion and we're just saying hey I'm
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going to do it a little bit differently
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today um for me personally breaking this
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cycle also it was really helpful um when
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I recognized what was going on to also
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remind myself like this isn't a
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dangerous thing anxiety you know it's a
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it's a normal emotion to experience
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especially in the morning because it's
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natural that our body produces more
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cortisol in the morning helps us wake up
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so when we wake up if that if that
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initial response is to be oh God here
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goes this anxiety again to just pause
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and say it's normal I feel it's normal
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to feel this way there's extra cortisol
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in my body and so I'm feeling a little
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bit more anxious than I normally would
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and then I proceed to get up take a big
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yawn walk into the living room walk back
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into the bedroom you know do do some
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yoga poses get a glass of water any of
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those types of things just to break up
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that pattern exactly
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and the whole idea of like setting or a
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certain sometimes it even helps do this
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the is that then your brain can default
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to that new routine you don't have to
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think about oh what should I do instead
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and try and create a strategy on the
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spot you've already set it up you can
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you can kind of get ahead of it by
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saying okay you know the night before
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tomorrow if I wake up with that morning
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anxiety as I might um I'm just going to
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do this no matter what you know and that
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sense of no matter what
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makes it so that you are just getting
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out of that cycle going to sometimes
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like going to a yoga mat where you're
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going to sit and take a few deep breaths
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and it can be literally as simple as
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that but that at least changes the
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channel changes the trajectory and sets
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you up to literally break this cycle of
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morning anxiety yeah absolutely so we
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love to hear from you on this channel um
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let's get some ideas going leave some
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comments below what are some keep them
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simple what are some really simple
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morning routines some things that you
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can do that you might plan ahead of time
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that can get you out of that cycle into
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your body and flowing to use up that
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energy in a way that calms the system
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and sets us up for a nice
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day
