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🗓️ 2 June 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | This week on the Anxiety Slayer Podcast, we're discussing how you can calm anxiety with tips for how to support your nervous system when you're feeling hyper-vigilant. |
0:22.0 | Welcome back to Anxiety Slayer. |
0:24.0 | I'm Shan Banderley here with my good friend and co-host in Angasivir, |
0:28.8 | producing free podcasts for you since 2009. |
0:34.0 | Welcome back, Ananga. |
0:36.0 | Hey Shen. |
0:38.0 | 2009, sometimes I still scratch my head and go, wow. |
0:42.0 | We've been showing up doing this work together for a while. Yeah, I'm so |
0:48.1 | grateful to have this partnership with you. Me too. And another great topic about our nervous system and calming anxiety, discussing hyper-vigilance |
1:00.1 | and how so many who suffer with anxiety and PTSD and stress are very hyper-vigilant. |
1:10.0 | Yeah, and I guess most people know what hypervigilant means, but maybe we should just give a little introduction as we go in. |
1:19.0 | So hyper-vigilance is when we feel on red alert, constantly on red alert, checking, scanning, we don't feel particularly |
1:27.3 | safe, we feel unsettled and we're in that |
1:33.6 | vigilant state where we're seeing potential danger or problems around us all the time. |
1:39.6 | Very exhausting, high anxiety, uncomfortable experience often comes as a result of trauma or |
1:51.8 | PTSD and now as is being thankfully discussed more complex post-traumatic |
2:00.2 | stress disorder and as many experts in the field that we follow share and we |
2:06.3 | concur with it's not a disorder it's a natural response to intense stress but that's the label that's used. |
2:18.0 | And I can relate to this feeling and I think you can as well. |
2:23.0 | And while we've done lows and loads of work |
2:27.0 | to calm our nervous systems, |
2:30.0 | there are still times when I can go into that red alert state or into that hypervigilant place and now I just am aware of it so I can do something about it much quicker than in days past. |
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