How to Break Free from the Prison of Fear and Anxiety

The Big Leap

Gay Hendricks & Mike Koenigs

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Freedom, Decisions, Mental Health, Business, Relationships, Genius, Education, Success, Beliefs

5 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, Gay and Mike go deep on how to overcome anxiety, fear and other crazy emotions that can hold you back from your next level of success and happiness.

As many of you know, Mike went through some intense personal challenges earlier this year that triggered severe anxiety and fear in him. He's not ashamed to say he completely lost his mind for a bit! But with Gay's wisdom and support, along with some deep inner work, Mike was able to regain his center.

In this episode, Gay and Mike share openly about our own journeys conquering fear and anxiety, including a terrifying THC reaction I had that sent me to the hospital! You'll hear amazing insights like:

Why you have to get fear out of your head and into your body to resolve it
Tools to interrupt your anxiety patterns and reframe what they mean
How to turn your greatest fear into your greatest source of power
Real life stories of people who overcame extreme adversity
Action steps to make friends with fear and unlock your blocked genius!

Trust us, this episode comes at the perfect time. If you're like us, you've probably noticed there seems to be more fear and anxiety swirling around lately than ever before. People are freaking out about all kinds of stuff - the state of the world, the economy, you name it.

We also talk about how fear can actually be harnessed as rocket fuel for your next level. You just have to learn how to dance with the bear, as Gay likes to say.

So if you or someone you care about is struggling with fear, anxiety or feeling blocked from your potential, do yourself a favor and have a listen.

Key Takeaways:

(04:32) The recent trend of anxiety fear and addiction in older adults
(12:08) Gay talks about his fear of dying and loss of mobility after his major fall
(17:48) Mike tells a CRAZY story about losing control after his experience with a 100mg THC gummy
(34:50) Managing fear and anxiety through body awareness
(47:05) How to face and overcome your fears

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Gay Hendricks. I really want you to tune in to this edition of the Big Leap podcast because we explore fear.
0:09.1	And fear, not just as a concept, but how you can deal with it in a way that releases more and more of your genius.
0:16.6	This is a time where a lot of people are feeling scared and anxious, and I think you'll find some real solutions in this episode.
0:24.0	And we deconstruct some of our greatest fears, which include loss of control, going crazy, fear of death, and also the way we react and respond to it, which is flight, fight, freeze, or faint. And our goal is to help you get in your
0:39.8	body, overcome your greatest fear, explore what it is and face it head on. And Gay is going to
0:45.6	give you his formula for how he gets out of it too, all that and a lot more in this episode of
0:51.3	the Big League. When I came out of the hospital, I looked down at my legs, and they didn't look like my legs,
0:59.8	you know?
1:00.3	But pretty soon, like, I'm losing my mind and forgetting who I am, and I became, like,
1:05.2	I remember licking the linoleum at my grandmother's house when I was crawling, and I've never
1:10.2	remembered that before.
1:12.2	You know, William James said the schizophrenic is drowning in the same water that the mystic
1:17.2	is swimming in.
1:18.7	Yeah.
1:18.9	My best mechanism for getting connected with and resolving the anxiety is just laying down and meditating.
1:40.1	All right, Gay, you've had some really big breakthroughs happening for you, but there are different
1:45.6	kinds of breakthroughs, unexpected breakthroughs. I do too, but this whole episode is about
1:50.4	stopping the fear and anxiety that block genius from happening. So I'd like to hear, what does that
1:56.0	mean to you? What's the interpretation of that? So we start with the proper framing first.
2:02.1	Yes.
2:02.6	Well, everybody I've ever worked with that has an upper limit problem that they're trying to break through,
2:09.4	there's fear underneath that.
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