I wish I'd come across you 6 years ago. I've been a prisoner in my own life too for too long, letting my little anxiety voice destroy my life and hid away for a long time. Thankyou , what a gift you have, to be able to share how to manage the catastrophic anxiety ruling so many lives.
I needed this today! I’m fighting the anxiety so hard today and fighting the feelings and emotions that irrational fear is causing. I have to stop fighting this and surrender.
Thank you for this well structured and evocative exposition. This was the first video from your channel I've seen, will definitely be back for more inspiration and encouragement.
I have anxiety and a few other conditions that make it very hard to cope with anxiety. I'm finally in a place where I can start trying to deal with my anxiety and I just found your channel. Thank you for putting this content out here for everyone.
Have you ever worked with someone who doesn't have anxiety before things but afterwards? After reading the book The Highly Sensitive person.. I realized what may be happening to me. I go do all kinds of things and even have a side that does things knowing I'll have to pay later. But the anxiety comes later in the form of overstimulation from taking in way more than some people may. So I am stuck decompressing and feeling like crap, almost paralyzed. For instance I could go to a park , sit, eyes closed, talk with everyone, and have zero anxiety until later that night.
Just subscribed! I have after about a year and half realized I have Health Anxiety.Have watched a couple of your video's and describes me to a tee.Since turned 60 a couple of yrs ago have had some health ailments which I think started the anxiety never had any health ailments till then which I have been very fortunate.Had a question I have family members that have been on anxiety meds for years pushing me to take which I don't want to start for several reasons but recently a buddy introduced me to cbd oil which I took 1/2 dropper of and it really helped with the anxiety for a few hours wanted to know your thoughts on that?I've also been praying alot more and that has helped as well...any info to help with this greatly appreciated and plan on watching your video's from here on out thx so much
I have severe anxiety really bad and I get lots of anxiety attacks it’s hard to breathe hard to think lots of running thoughts hard to swallow shaking anxious nervous weak I get scared. I been like this for years. Family or friends come over and there goes my anxiety attack I tell them it’s not a good day and I go to my room and cry 😭 praying please I want to be normal again and I don’t like taking medication anymore. How do I get Better 😭
Dennis, my friend and brother, I would love to connect with you for a session yet, it's quite expensive. I am going through an active PTSD, and my mom is one of my biggest culprits. I can barely function from hypervigilance due to multiple reasons. I would really love to be able to have a face to face session with you. Please, is there something you can do, also payment installments. Even a short advice one on one.? I am practicing surrendering, yet influences are there. I hope you can help me??🙏
No, ignoring can also create disinterest in the long run yes. However, often ignoring only makes the lower self scream louder and make you more symptomatic, an understanding relationship is a better way of proceeding I believe.
@@TheAnxietyGuy1 I have heard that you should treat the lower self like a 3 yr old who is pitching a fit, and take the approach as compassionate and loving toward them and trying to be understanding toward them. This is a good visualization for me. So when the anxiety and symptoms are scream in a fit, I try to take a step back and say, “I understand we are doing things differently (and I think of the changes I have made like last night going out with family to trick or treat) and explain to the lower self that it’s safe and nothing it’s fearing has happened so it can calm back down and continue on the new path”.
I needed to listen to this today. I practiced this yesterday and also practiced kindness and laughter and the anxiety would die down and it was in waves but by night time I felt better. I’m going to continue to practice “being with the feelings” rather than fight them. I will surrender 🙏🏽 💕 Thank you so much
thanks to your surrender videos. I have started to surrender to the environment when I walk my dog. I surrender to the sky, the clouds, the birds, the trees humming in the wind, even to the noise of the vehickles in the woods. When I sit at home and making the surrender meditations it feels like underneath there is grief. Can it be true? I am from Denmark so excuse if my spelling is not correct. And thank you so much for your videos which give so much hope and the sense of another world full of joy and love. Even if only in a glimse.
My health anxiety has been so high since my panic attack 10/3 so about a month now. The symptoms switch every few hours, to every few days. That helps me remind myself that it’s JUST anxiety because if it was something serious then symptoms wouldn’t go away and my focus wouldn’t switch from being afraid of a stroke to heart attack to a seizure to a blood clot etc every few days.
Anxiety is truly debilitating. It robs us of all the great things life has to offer. Medications for me don't work; they just cover up the symptoms for a few hours, and the side effects are horrific. So many people are anxious. It's a difficult way to live.
Wow my experience with a panic attack happened the exact same date which is crazy to me, and I’ve been feeling the exact same way from health anxiety and the feeling of dread and panic that something terrible is going to happen to me. Thinking about life before then really hits me and feels like I took life for granted before the anxiety ever hit me, but hopefully we can fully cover from this and move on.
Such great content. You addressed everything I have been working to achieve. Thanks for the new look at it. Surrender, letting go, leaving things alone, trusting, accepting, witnessing etc..... They are obviously all connected and the keys to conquering anxiety. Like you said, it takes courage though. That is the definition of my last name. I need to "live" my last name more. You are helping. Thank you Dennis.
Hey Dennis, Your becoming my friend, companion, and closest advisor thru these long nights I've been going thru for a couple years now. I don't wanna keep going in to my details, I'm à US Marine, no longer on active duty, and in the course I suffered severe spinal damage that went almost undetected, but misdiagnosed which went on until just over 3 yrs ago when I started having strange numbness/weakness in my feet and right leg. Long story short, 3yrs and 16 major surgeries in, and getting ready for nmbr 17, severe pain is my constant companion, I've lost alot of strength and unable to walk unassisted, we are 🙏🙏 this next and hopefully last surgery will restore my ability to walk without a walker, or cane/crutches. I've gained a bunch of weight from being so immobile and unable to really exercise, and that is delaying surgery, because due to the length of, and the bone and blood loss, and other complications that can accompany spinal surgery the Neurosurgeon is adamant I be at a lower bmi. The other gift from my military service is severe PTSD, anxiety/panic disorder. Like alot of Vets, I've had repeated exposures to traumas not just myself, but others around me, close friends etc... but this stuff started during my last year on active duty, became worse over time with periods of what I'd call remission, or thought I'd beat it, but even right now, it's back worse than ever. In the military when it started I was sure I was having heart attacks, or strokes, I didn't wanna be seen about it cause it would end my military career. I discovered alcohol, and it was an instant cure. Well, let's just say I've used up that option, and that almost killed me for real, over time and amounts made me very sick, and almost dead a couple times. But I put it down, and again thought I'd beat anxiety until all this happened now. But, I thought I was handling things well, meaning I was in and out of major surgery after surgery, complications, icu's, ER's, Ambulances, and being in the hospital more than home from late 2019-2022, thru it all, yeah I had some fear, some worry, especially like anyone your nervous before surgery, getting put under once, let alone 16x. And they weren't easy, they were long, sometimes 10-16 hours. So I've been thru a ringer, and the pain, barely able to sleep at night, sometimes maybe an hour or 2 during the day. And, as much as I wish I didn't have to, I have to use very strong pain medications to manage the extreme levels of pain that comes w this condition. Without them I'm curled up in a ball, laid out, and I won't lie, brought to tears wishing for death to make it stop. I thought I knew pain, and in the course of my life, the military etc..I experienced high levels of pain, and have pushed my body to limits, and beyond which most people can't even imagine, but all of that pales in comparison to this now. This has got way too long, and too much info probably Anyway, now about 6-7 mo ago anxiety and panic attacks hit me stronger than ever before, I mean bad. Now it's torture because I can't just jump up, go for a long run, or walk, or hit the gym and wear off all the anxiety. No I'm stuck because I can barely walk right now, and the anxiety at times feels like I'm gonna just implode, or my brain will just go nutts and I'll finally just go crazy. As if I didn't have enuf, the beg of November I came down w Covid-19. Both my gf and I, courtesy of our roommate who caught it at work. I am just now getting better, I had, and still have tailings of a really bad case of Laryngitis, completely losing my voice, and the symptoms with my anxiety and panic thrown in, at times feeling like I couldn't breath. I could, it was anxiety telling me I couldn't. My Gf prob took me to the ER 8-10x this mo., each time they'd do a complete and thorough work up, aside from some tachycardia and elevated BP, everything was OK, lungs good, CT scans of my neck and throat, all normal so no complications or swelling from Laryngitis, just no voice, which still gave me strange feeling in my throat, really dry, and almost like my airway was obstructed, but it wasn't. I apologize Dennis for the novel here. Things are bad, the anxiety and panic attacks, my real pain, aggravated even more by these constant states of high awareness/anxiety, and 5-6 full blown panic attacks each day and night. I'm finding these posts making alot of sense Dennis, and just wanted to say "Thank you!!"". So, I'm just doing these things you suggest, I'm just allowing the anxiety, the panic attacks. I'm trying to just observe, and I have your video segments I've been going thru. Finally I'm understanding what all of this is, and what's happening thru all this anxiety. Just your voice, and the quiet confidence and strength I can see you have, helps me calm down, and slow down the ruminating negative thoughts, ya know? The " your dying, no your not, yes you are, what if my brain just strokes out or my heart from the floods of panic" Dennis I'm glad and greatful your here, and will just again say thank you. 🇺🇲SF
This is so true! Your anxiety release meditation helped me to get rid of "ball of pain" in my left chest, that was there every time I feel stressed and/ or anxiety. After the meditation, I burst out emotionally and it was gone for good! I couldn't believe it...
Is it common to surrender one day and the next day and the same fear come up again the next day or the symptoms increase the next day because of the exposure?
Yes, taking a non frantic stance against the elements of anxiety can make elements of anxiety stronger before eventually calming down. It takes time, it takes commitment to a new idea and a new relationship within.
@TheAnxietyGuy1 Thank you for answering that question. I fear and have anxiety driving in the rain. I cancel appointments after checking the weather map. I have it at home too, thunderstorms, I go into the laundry room where it's quiet and have a radio if I can hear the storm. My friends check the weather before inviting me over. It's been 15 years. So I surrender to my anxiety of the storm instead of trying to fight the anxiety? I just accept the anxiety?
I have watched most of your videos over the past year and have taken one of your courses, and would like to say that this video reaches a totally new level of deep anxiety healing. I truly appreciate all your help.
I feel like my anxiety is a sure thing, like life is unreal due to depersonalization. How do we handle this? It’s not one particular fear but everything that comes with life.
I have a very peculiar problem. About 6 years ago I sat down in a chair in a new job and felt slightly uncomfortable. After a couple of months this turned into dizziness, brain fog, twitching, at my desk. For a long time I was convinced it was an ergonomic issue but I now think I have an anxiety disorder. I still can’t sit at my desk at work without these symptoms but can get by working from home. How do I go about getting rid of these symptoms in the office? Exposure doesn’t work so how do I ‘surrender’?
Thank you so much for your content! It has been a game changer for me and this video really helped push me to the next part of my healing. Thank you again! You are such a warrior!! 🙂
Wow!!! I have been working for years to stop bracing and tensing against anxiety and the sensation. I am slowly working on being present with it and this video really helped reinforce the work i am doing. Thank you❤
Not even through the whole video yet, but had to stop and say THANK YOU for this very clear, concise explanation! This is so helpful. Understanding really truly helps so much in the challenging moments, and you articulated these ideas and processes so well. ❤
Is misaphonia a symptom of anxiety. Since my mom passed away 2 years ago when I was only 20, I’ve been getting an intense fight or flight response to daily household sounds like doors banging, footsteps, cupboards cl being closed etc
Finding myself in others is the greatest gift that surrender sessions have provided me with as I am no longer trying to control other people. Thanks Dennis for all these valuable insights.
Thanks Dennis. Question: I find myself giving time to focus on my tight chest and just be with the feeling of it. It starts to get heavier and more intense so I sit with it and it gets heavier. I then go about my day and now my body feels super anxious, any thoughts on this please? 🙏 I know we aren’t supposed to think of it to go away but just wondering what you’d recommend here. Great vid as always!
It’s a good thing. The very fact that you are working with the sensations/lower self is an intention that it can tell you more of what it’s suppressing. The suppressed feelings and ideas now have a chance for expression and they will arise throughout the day and even more so during ‘surrender session’ meditations, it’s good, it’s a lack of control, certainty, needing to know.
I surrendered All. Dennis sitting with the feeling, can bring you to a deeper understanding of who I am. Surrendering is sitting with the symptoms. Thank you so much for this clarification I needed. Being a recovering sufferer of hypochondrism, when I shared this with my friends, all said the same thing, your anxiety. Ding, Ding,. I had to explain to them that, before I knew the thing had a name, I suffered alone and detached from my family. I can say today I continue to my journey, like happiness is not a destination, my journey on the path of curing my anxiety, I have to work at it daily, it has become a ritual. Thank you Dennis you don’t even know the depths of how finding you during the beginning of the Pandemic and continue to follow and live by every word you say. I am more than Anxiety. P.S Have you tried Matcha green tea or mushroom coffee ? My friend you have to try them, especially the green tea matcha with blue agave, awakens your focus. Namaste
Thank you for everything you do! I am just starting to read your book and it makes so much sense. I have had CBT in the past but all it did was turn the noise down. I'm hoping to find a permanent road map out of this. Thanks again!
This video really resonates with me. I also worry (unsurprisingly) that directing so much attention towards my physical symptoms will just continue to nurture my obsession with them.
I try to remind myself often "And this too shall pass." It helps be stay grounded in the present moment as much as possible; sometimes it takes deep breathing or mindfulness (I use a book called 30 Days to Reduce Stress by Harper Daniels for journaling and cognitive exercises), and sometimes I just have to hold on and it eventually passes. It's a good reminder, because our minds are conditioned to stay in panic mode anticipating the next trouble.
" Surrender is becoming one with your lower self" .... I really appreciate the clarity I got from your presentation in the park. I find it easy to surrender in the moment while doing your surrender meditation safe at home however have difficulty doing it when out in the world feeling a "symptom" as it's usually not an opportune time. The suggestion of practicing this while sitting on a park bench feeling judged is excellent. Thank you again and again. 🙏🌿
I suffer from really bad head and nasal congestion daily and really feel like this adds to my (sometimes) low mood and anxiety levels. I know you are not a doctor, but do you think this could be linked?
Certainly a possibility. Nasal breathing can often make it easier to take slow and deep breaths(expanding the lower abdomen first), which signals the relaxation response. A more shallow breath can signal the opposite. But despite having to breath more through your mouth defaulting to more shallow breathing, I bet if you consciously take some lower and slower breaths, even if it has to be through your mouth, that it can help offset that.
What did You mean by succumbing to the Intrusive idea, I deal with Harm OCD and have had it for nearly 15 yrs, I haven't or will never act on my thoughts, don't know if that's what You mean, these thoughts are ego- dystonic
Exactly dont surrender one day. Do it now. I am a prime example of what happens when we surrender one day. Every day we can better together. Thankfully we have a channel the can help us practice.
You’re saying surrender to feelings what about the endless loop of perpetual thoughts? I’ve been trying to do this. I really want to tie a cement block to the ankle of my anxiety/fear and get rid of it. Sitting with it & surrendered to it is the opposite of my primal instinct. Please help me understand
To be led by the primal instincts is good, when necessary. However anxiety proposes that 'standing guard' must be a way of life, and this isn't how the mechanism was meant to be run. There is no 'trying' within surrender, there is only surrendering, which is giving up complete control to life, a deity, a higher power etc. The getting rid of part of thinking and feeling is what leads them on, it's up to us to leave what we believe is something we need for something we don't truly understand yet, uncertainty and the unknown. Much love.
By changing the frame, every future experience comes with multiple potentials and it’s your job to put as much energy as possible into the optimistic possibility starting now.
@@TheAnxietyGuy1thank you for replying. Let's say your are 50,single, and there's a 95% chance that you will remain single and die alone. And you can't tolerate loneliness. All that you have ever really wanted is to have a wife and children. How do you surrender to that sort of anxiety?
Thank you so so much!!! Your videos/podcast are my #1 support and couldn’t imagine a day without it right now. Had an intense setback today, everything I thought I’ve gotten rid of came to surface again, heart palpitations, tingling sensation and heavy breathing etc, surrender sessions really get me through these challenging moments. Its a long journey but I have faith it will work out with love and patience!❤️
I feel the same way I was doing so well and I just had a major setback and everything just began to resurface. Sometimes it feels good to know that you’re not in this alone love and patience we will reach peace of mind. Sending you love and kindness. 💕🌱
i've been studying ... challenging my beliefs... i'm getting rid of the bad beliefs and redeveloping my new beliefs... I"m anchoring my new beliefs and I have to surrender "give up" unhelpful beliefs
Hi Dennis, I’ve been trying to do this but there’s definitely a block/fear when the wave comes through my body that I struggle with sometimes. Can I ask you about your journey with anxiety and how long it took you to overcome it? I love your videos I’ll definitely take your advice during my journey 🫂
Start your true anxiety healing with me at theanxietyguy.com/all-programs/ today.
I wish I'd come across you 6 years ago. I've been a prisoner in my own life too for too long, letting my little anxiety voice destroy my life and hid away for a long time. Thankyou , what a gift you have, to be able to share how to manage the catastrophic anxiety ruling so many lives.
Always something different that shows a new angle to master this horrible sensation.
What a gift you have
I needed this today! I’m fighting the anxiety so hard today and fighting the feelings and emotions that irrational fear is causing. I have to stop fighting this and surrender.
Glad this video spoke to you and thank you for engaging with me :)
Do u feel burping , reflux and abdominal irritations?
Thank you for this well structured and evocative exposition.
This was the first video from your channel I've seen, will definitely be back for more inspiration and encouragement.
Enjoy the channel and thank you for your feedback.
Probably the most illustrative description of anxiety surrender I’ve heard so far. Thank you, this is helpful 🙏🏻💗
Wow such kind words thank you so much.
God bless you Dennis and why you do. Thank You.
Much love to you.
You’re the man Dennis. You’ve helped me through the most important year of my life. Thanks for doing what you do!
Very welcome and thanks for taking the time to reach out to me :)
Very good this makes alot of sense thank you Denis
Very welcome.
I have anxiety and a few other conditions that make it very hard to cope with anxiety. I'm finally in a place where I can start trying to deal with my anxiety and I just found your channel. Thank you for putting this content out here for everyone.
Very welcome, enjoy the channel :)
Great video really helpful thankyou. You explain things so well and make it sound like it is all doable, which gives me hope 🥰
Glad it spoke to you.
Have you ever worked with someone who doesn't have anxiety before things but afterwards? After reading the book The Highly Sensitive person.. I realized what may be happening to me. I go do all kinds of things and even have a side that does things knowing I'll have to pay later. But the anxiety comes later in the form of overstimulation from taking in way more than some people may. So I am stuck decompressing and feeling like crap, almost paralyzed. For instance I could go to a park , sit, eyes closed, talk with everyone, and have zero anxiety until later that night.
Just subscribed! I have after about a year and half realized I have Health Anxiety.Have watched a couple of your video's and describes me to a tee.Since turned 60 a couple of yrs ago have had some health ailments which I think started the anxiety never had any health ailments till then which I have been very fortunate.Had a question I have family members that have been on anxiety meds for years pushing me to take which I don't want to start for several reasons but recently a buddy introduced me to cbd oil which I took 1/2 dropper of and it really helped with the anxiety for a few hours wanted to know your thoughts on that?I've also been praying alot more and that has helped as well...any info to help with this greatly appreciated and plan on watching your video's from here on out thx so much
I have severe anxiety really bad and I get lots of anxiety attacks it’s hard to breathe hard to think lots of running thoughts hard to swallow shaking anxious nervous weak I get scared. I been like this for years. Family or friends come over and there goes my anxiety attack I tell them it’s not a good day and I go to my room and cry 😭 praying please I want to be normal again and I don’t like taking medication anymore. How do I get Better 😭
Use this channel as your guide, 1 day at a time.
Dennis, my friend and brother, I would love to connect with you for a session yet, it's quite expensive. I am going through an active PTSD, and my mom is one of my biggest culprits. I can barely function from hypervigilance due to multiple reasons. I would really love to be able to have a face to face session with you. Please, is there something you can do, also payment installments. Even a short advice one on one.? I am practicing surrendering, yet influences are there. I hope you can help me??🙏
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Is it the same as ignoring it even when it bite so much by allowing it to do what it wants
No, ignoring can also create disinterest in the long run yes. However, often ignoring only makes the lower self scream louder and make you more symptomatic, an understanding relationship is a better way of proceeding I believe.
@@TheAnxietyGuy1 how do I understand the relationship
@@TheAnxietyGuy1 I have heard that you should treat the lower self like a 3 yr old who is pitching a fit, and take the approach as compassionate and loving toward them and trying to be understanding toward them. This is a good visualization for me. So when the anxiety and symptoms are scream in a fit, I try to take a step back and say, “I understand we are doing things differently (and I think of the changes I have made like last night going out with family to trick or treat) and explain to the lower self that it’s safe and nothing it’s fearing has happened so it can calm back down and continue on the new path”.
I needed to listen to this today. I practiced this yesterday and also practiced kindness and laughter and the anxiety would die down and it was in waves but by night time I felt better. I’m going to continue to practice “being with the feelings” rather than fight them. I will surrender 🙏🏽 💕 Thank you so much
thanks to your surrender videos. I have started to surrender to the environment when I walk my dog. I surrender to the sky, the clouds, the birds, the trees humming in the wind, even to the noise of the vehickles in the woods. When I sit at home and making the surrender meditations it feels like underneath there is grief. Can it be true? I am from Denmark so excuse if my spelling is not correct. And thank you so much for your videos which give so much hope and the sense of another world full of joy and love. Even if only in a glimse.
My health anxiety has been so high since my panic attack 10/3 so about a month now. The symptoms switch every few hours, to every few days. That helps me remind myself that it’s JUST anxiety because if it was something serious then symptoms wouldn’t go away and my focus wouldn’t switch from being afraid of a stroke to heart attack to a seizure to a blood clot etc every few days.
I feel for you. I understand 1000%. I have suffered this way most of my life. It's very debilitating and really affects quality of life.
Anxiety is truly debilitating. It robs us of all the great things life has to offer. Medications for me don't work; they just cover up the symptoms for a few hours, and the side effects are horrific. So many people are anxious. It's a difficult way to live.
Panic attacks are fine ,used to have those lot everyday. Be glad you find this channelt early🙏
Let us all pray, repent, accept thst we are sinners.. accept JESUS🙏 as our LORD🙏 andSaviour.. be grateful. Let go and let GOD🙏❤️💐
Wow my experience with a panic attack happened the exact same date which is crazy to me, and I’ve been feeling the exact same way from health anxiety and the feeling of dread and panic that something terrible is going to happen to me. Thinking about life before then really hits me and feels like I took life for granted before the anxiety ever hit me, but hopefully we can fully cover from this and move on.
Such great content. You addressed everything I have been working to achieve. Thanks for the new look at it. Surrender, letting go, leaving things alone, trusting, accepting, witnessing etc..... They are obviously all connected and the keys to conquering anxiety. Like you said, it takes courage though. That is the definition of my last name. I need to "live" my last name more. You are helping. Thank you Dennis.
No better feeling in the world than oneness
Hey Dennis,
Your becoming my friend, companion, and closest advisor thru these long nights I've been going thru for a couple years now.
I don't wanna keep going in to my details, I'm à US Marine, no longer on active duty, and in the course I suffered severe spinal damage that went almost undetected, but misdiagnosed which went on until just over 3 yrs ago when I started having strange numbness/weakness in my feet and right leg. Long story short, 3yrs and 16 major surgeries in, and getting ready for nmbr 17, severe pain is my constant companion, I've lost alot of strength and unable to walk unassisted, we are 🙏🙏 this next and hopefully last surgery will restore my ability to walk without a walker, or cane/crutches. I've gained a bunch of weight from being so immobile and unable to really exercise, and that is delaying surgery, because due to the length of, and the bone and blood loss, and other complications that can accompany spinal surgery the Neurosurgeon is adamant I be at a lower bmi. The other gift from my military service is severe PTSD, anxiety/panic disorder. Like alot of Vets, I've had repeated exposures to traumas not just myself, but others around me, close friends etc... but this stuff started during my last year on active duty, became worse over time with periods of what I'd call remission, or thought I'd beat it, but even right now, it's back worse than ever.
In the military when it started I was sure I was having heart attacks, or strokes, I didn't wanna be seen about it cause it would end my military career. I discovered alcohol, and it was an instant cure. Well, let's just say I've used up that option, and that almost killed me for real, over time and amounts made me very sick, and almost dead a couple times.
But I put it down, and again thought I'd beat anxiety until all this happened now. But, I thought I was handling things well, meaning I was in and out of major surgery after surgery, complications, icu's, ER's, Ambulances, and being in the hospital more than home from late 2019-2022, thru it all, yeah I had some fear, some worry, especially like anyone your nervous before surgery, getting put under once, let alone 16x. And they weren't easy, they were long, sometimes 10-16 hours. So I've been thru a ringer, and the pain, barely able to sleep at night, sometimes maybe an hour or 2 during the day. And, as much as I wish I didn't have to, I have to use very strong pain medications to manage the extreme levels of pain that comes w this condition. Without them I'm curled up in a ball, laid out, and I won't lie, brought to tears wishing for death to make it stop. I thought I knew pain, and in the course of my life, the military etc..I experienced high levels of pain, and have pushed my body to limits, and beyond which most people can't even imagine, but all of that pales in comparison to this now.
This has got way too long, and too much info probably
Anyway, now about 6-7 mo ago anxiety and panic attacks hit me stronger than ever before, I mean bad. Now it's torture because I can't just jump up, go for a long run, or walk, or hit the gym and wear off all the anxiety. No I'm stuck because I can barely walk right now, and the anxiety at times feels like I'm gonna just implode, or my brain will just go nutts and I'll finally just go crazy.
As if I didn't have enuf, the beg of November I came down w Covid-19. Both my gf and I, courtesy of our roommate who caught it at work. I am just now getting better, I had, and still have tailings of a really bad case of Laryngitis, completely losing my voice, and the symptoms with my anxiety and panic thrown in, at times feeling like I couldn't breath. I could, it was anxiety telling me I couldn't. My Gf prob took me to the ER 8-10x this mo., each time they'd do a complete and thorough work up, aside from some tachycardia and elevated BP, everything was OK, lungs good, CT scans of my neck and throat, all normal so no complications or swelling from Laryngitis, just no voice, which still gave me strange feeling in my throat, really dry, and almost like my airway was obstructed, but it wasn't.
I apologize Dennis for the novel here. Things are bad, the anxiety and panic attacks, my real pain, aggravated even more by these constant states of high awareness/anxiety, and 5-6 full blown panic attacks each day and night.
I'm finding these posts making alot of sense Dennis, and just wanted to say "Thank you!!"".
So, I'm just doing these things you suggest, I'm just allowing the anxiety, the panic attacks. I'm trying to just observe, and I have your video segments I've been going thru. Finally I'm understanding what all of this is, and what's happening thru all this anxiety. Just your voice, and the quiet confidence and strength I can see you have, helps me calm down, and slow down the ruminating negative thoughts, ya know? The " your dying, no your not, yes you are, what if my brain just strokes out or my heart from the floods of panic"
Dennis I'm glad and greatful your here, and will just again say thank you.
🇺🇲SF
This is so true! Your anxiety release meditation helped me to get rid of "ball of pain" in my left chest, that was there every time I feel stressed and/ or anxiety. After the meditation, I burst out emotionally and it was gone for good! I couldn't believe it...
This is fantastic to hear. 👍👍
@@TheAnxietyGuy1 Thank you so much!
Is it common to surrender one day and the next day and the same fear come up again the next day or the symptoms increase the next day because of the exposure?
Yes, taking a non frantic stance against the elements of anxiety can make elements of anxiety stronger before eventually calming down. It takes time, it takes commitment to a new idea and a new relationship within.
@TheAnxietyGuy1
Thank you for answering that question.
I fear and have anxiety driving in the rain. I cancel appointments after checking the weather map. I have it at home too, thunderstorms, I go into the laundry room where it's quiet and have a radio if I can hear the storm. My friends check the weather before inviting me over.
It's been 15 years.
So I surrender to my anxiety of the storm instead of trying to fight the anxiety? I just accept the anxiety?
You have helped me so much over the years. I want to help others as well and give back. Thank you
I have watched most of your videos over the past year and have taken one of your courses, and would like to say that this video reaches a totally new level of deep anxiety healing. I truly appreciate all your help.
Thank you for your feedback Jim, keep up the progress friend.
I feel like my anxiety is a sure thing, like life is unreal due to depersonalization. How do we handle this? It’s not one particular fear but everything that comes with life.
I have a very peculiar problem. About 6 years ago I sat down in a chair in a new job and felt slightly uncomfortable. After a couple of months this turned into dizziness, brain fog, twitching, at my desk. For a long time I was convinced it was an ergonomic issue but I now think I have an anxiety disorder. I still can’t sit at my desk at work without these symptoms but can get by working from home. How do I go about getting rid of these symptoms in the office? Exposure doesn’t work so how do I ‘surrender’?
You’ve helped me so much dude. You’re a being of light sent by God
Brillant video ty Dennis moving towards inner peace inner freedom higher self love you ❤❤❤😁😁😁😘😘😘
Ha!! Your park agitation example is spot on!!! I had not realized that. Thanks for your video.
Anxiety makes me believe fate even now
thankyou 😊
No problem 😊
Thank you so much for your content! It has been a game changer for me and this video really helped push me to the next part of my healing. Thank you again! You are such a warrior!! 🙂
You are so very welcome, peaceful warrior.
Listened to this one again Dennis, might be the most powerful one yet
I really enjoy listening to you
Thanks
This is really working for me
Can't thank you enough 😊
You're welcome! Please share with others in need.
@@TheAnxietyGuy1 yes I will
Wow!!! I have been working for years to stop bracing and tensing against anxiety and the sensation. I am slowly working on being present with it and this video really helped reinforce the work i am doing. Thank you❤
Very welcome and thank you for sharing your progress.
Not even through the whole video yet, but had to stop and say THANK YOU for this very clear, concise explanation! This is so helpful. Understanding really truly helps so much in the challenging moments, and you articulated these ideas and processes so well. ❤
Glad it was helpful!
I’m doing Dennis’s Health Anxiety program and it’s very helpful to me.
Love it, keep up the program progress!
Great ❤
What an amazing lovely person you are k
Kindest words one could hear, thank you David enjoy the channel.
Bad day today really struggling. Will this ever ease very daunting.
When we no longer judge the bad days so harshly, it will.
Thank you! This has helped me understand a lot better!
Best thing I could hear, you are very welcome.
Great video! Everything to the point❤
Glad you liked it!
Is misaphonia a symptom of anxiety. Since my mom passed away 2 years ago when I was only 20, I’ve been getting an intense fight or flight response to daily household sounds like doors banging, footsteps, cupboards cl being closed etc
Finding myself in others is the greatest gift that surrender sessions have provided me with as I am no longer trying to control other people. Thanks Dennis for all these valuable insights.
Well said!
Thank you
You're welcome
I love the outdoor videos! thx!
Glad you like them!
Hi Dennis ..can I buy your books in Ireland?
Yes, Amazon has you covered :)
Thanks Dennis. Question: I find myself giving time to focus on my tight chest and just be with the feeling of it. It starts to get heavier and more intense so I sit with it and it gets heavier. I then go about my day and now my body feels super anxious, any thoughts on this please? 🙏 I know we aren’t supposed to think of it to go away but just wondering what you’d recommend here.
Great vid as always!
I have this also.. i feel like i always get rid off it when i REALLY let go its not easy
It’s a good thing. The very fact that you are working with the sensations/lower self is an intention that it can tell you more of what it’s suppressing. The suppressed feelings and ideas now have a chance for expression and they will arise throughout the day and even more so during ‘surrender session’ meditations, it’s good, it’s a lack of control, certainty, needing to know.
Thanks so much for the response and everything you're doing for the world
I surrendered All. Dennis sitting with the feeling, can bring you to a deeper understanding of who I am.
Surrendering is sitting with the symptoms. Thank you so much for this clarification I needed. Being a recovering sufferer of hypochondrism, when I shared this with my friends, all said the same thing, your anxiety. Ding, Ding,. I had to explain to them that, before I knew the thing had a name, I suffered alone and detached from my family.
I can say today I continue to my journey, like happiness is not a destination, my journey on the path of curing my anxiety, I have to work at it daily, it has become a ritual. Thank you Dennis you don’t even know the depths of how finding you during the beginning of the Pandemic and continue to follow and live by every word you say. I am more than Anxiety.
P.S
Have you tried Matcha green tea or mushroom coffee ? My friend you have to try them, especially the green tea matcha with blue agave, awakens your focus. Namaste
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Thank you for everything you do! I am just starting to read your book and it makes so much sense. I have had CBT in the past but all it did was turn the noise down. I'm hoping to find a permanent road map out of this. Thanks again!
You are so welcome!
Your book name please
Thank you
You're welcome
This video really resonates with me. I also worry (unsurprisingly) that directing so much attention towards my physical symptoms will just continue to nurture my obsession with them.
I try to remind myself often "And this too shall pass." It helps be stay grounded in the present moment as much as possible; sometimes it takes deep breathing or mindfulness (I use a book called 30 Days to Reduce Stress by Harper Daniels for journaling and cognitive exercises), and sometimes I just have to hold on and it eventually passes. It's a good reminder, because our minds are conditioned to stay in panic mode anticipating the next trouble.
Desensitize to the thing I’m afraid of. Wonderful
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" Surrender is becoming one with your lower self" .... I really appreciate the clarity I got from your presentation in the park. I find it easy to surrender in the moment while doing your surrender meditation safe at home however have difficulty doing it when out in the world feeling a "symptom" as it's usually not an opportune time. The suggestion of practicing this while sitting on a park bench feeling judged is excellent. Thank you again and again. 🙏🌿
I suffer from really bad head and nasal congestion daily and really feel like this adds to my (sometimes) low mood and anxiety levels. I know you are not a doctor, but do you think this could be linked?
Certainly a possibility. Nasal breathing can often make it easier to take slow and deep breaths(expanding the lower abdomen first), which signals the relaxation response. A more shallow breath can signal the opposite. But despite having to breath more through your mouth defaulting to more shallow breathing, I bet if you consciously take some lower and slower breaths, even if it has to be through your mouth, that it can help offset that.
What did You mean by succumbing to the Intrusive idea, I deal with Harm OCD and have had it for nearly 15 yrs, I haven't or will never act on my thoughts, don't know if that's what You mean, these thoughts are ego- dystonic
Succumbing to them, believing they are truth, identifying in them.
Such wise words Dennis....am trying to follow surrendering each day thanks to you ❤
You are so welcome
Has anyone ever had anxiety with slow heart rate, feeling very calm, and slow feeling, but feeling panic st same time?
Absolutely. It took me a while to realize that this was actually calm. Embrace it dude!
Exactly dont surrender one day. Do it now. I am a prime example of what happens when we surrender one day. Every day we can better together. Thankfully we have a channel the can help us practice.
Much love.
@@TheAnxietyGuy1 Thanks Dennis. Did what you said in one of the videos . Put a positive spin on the morning as you wake up.
You’re saying surrender to feelings what about the endless loop of perpetual thoughts? I’ve been trying to do this. I really want to tie a cement block to the ankle of my anxiety/fear and get rid of it. Sitting with it & surrendered to it is the opposite of my primal instinct. Please help me understand
To be led by the primal instincts is good, when necessary. However anxiety proposes that 'standing guard' must be a way of life, and this isn't how the mechanism was meant to be run. There is no 'trying' within surrender, there is only surrendering, which is giving up complete control to life, a deity, a higher power etc. The getting rid of part of thinking and feeling is what leads them on, it's up to us to leave what we believe is something we need for something we don't truly understand yet, uncertainty and the unknown. Much love.
That's fine until I feel dizzy - then I can't think anymore but terror. It's been 30 years.
Feel de diziness and let it be...when you are drunk you don t question the diziness
Yes, its really over anxiety,its finding yourself.
How true it is, keep up the progress.
Thank you, Dennis my friend and Brother! I needed this one more than anything..surrendering is the way for me.❤
Much love Mirza nice to see you.
Thank you Dennis.I suppose we are a work in process with people like yourself who help and guide we will get there.
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Very welcome.
10:48 made sense surrender to anxiety "Make it happen" hmmm.
I'm glad it spoke to you, much love.
But how do you surrender to anxiety about the future, especially when you know the probabilities are heavily stacked against you?
By changing the frame, every future experience comes with multiple potentials and it’s your job to put as much energy as possible into the optimistic possibility starting now.
@@TheAnxietyGuy1thank you for replying. Let's say your are 50,single, and there's a 95% chance that you will remain single and die alone. And you can't tolerate loneliness. All that you have ever really wanted is to have a wife and children. How do you surrender to that sort of anxiety?
Thank you so so much!!! Your videos/podcast are my #1 support and couldn’t imagine a day without it right now. Had an intense setback today, everything I thought I’ve gotten rid of came to surface again, heart palpitations, tingling sensation and heavy breathing etc, surrender sessions really get me through these challenging moments. Its a long journey but I have faith it will work out with love and patience!❤️
Your optimism is inspiring, keep up with the surrender sessions :) much love.
I feel the same way I was doing so well and I just had a major setback and everything just began to resurface. Sometimes it feels good to know that you’re not in this alone love and patience we will reach peace of mind. Sending you love and kindness. 💕🌱
So, it’s not the elevator that is to be feared but the fear is the sensations of anxiety.
It is what the elevator will do to us that creates the fear, never the elevator itself.
@@TheAnxietyGuy1 ah…yes. TY
Do you believe in Jesus?
I do :)
No need to push. Everything happens naturally.
I hear something different everytime I listen to this. It’s like you’re channeling.
Absolutely, I'm glad you're getting to this chapter in your healing.
i've been studying ... challenging my beliefs... i'm getting rid of the bad beliefs and redeveloping my new beliefs... I"m anchoring my new beliefs and I have to surrender "give up" unhelpful beliefs
Hi Dennis, I’ve been trying to do this but there’s definitely a block/fear when the wave comes through my body that I struggle with sometimes. Can I ask you about your journey with anxiety and how long it took you to overcome it? I love your videos I’ll definitely take your advice during my journey 🫂
Let the wave come like waves on the ocean until it s settle down..be friend with and let it be..and let it go
@@AdioAnxietate thank you sir, I started reading the Dare response and it has helped me understand this too