#52 Quick Tip: Reduce Anxiety
With Trisha Fuller
Trisha Fuller is back with a quick tip to help reduce anxiety.
She is a Master Hypnotist and Consulting Hypnotist who founded The Canadian Hypnosis Academy. In this episode, we role-play a quick exercise you can do to help reduce anxiety.
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Transcript:
Trisha Fuller 0:00
Hello, this is Trisha Fuller and I'm with Divorce Magazine Canada podcast. And we're just here to share a quick trick with you today.
Deena Kordt 0:09
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This is the first episode in a series of quick tips, little bits of advice or encouragement from our experts to just help you in a specific area. Trisha Fuller, our favorite hypnotist is back on the show. And I'm excited to have her here with a tip and a little exercise that you can use to help reduce anxiety. And we're going to roleplay this, and I'm going to be the person with anxiety and she's going to help walk me through something I can do to help reduce that. Let's do that now.
Trisha Fuller 2:55
So Deena, what would you like help with?
Deena Kordt 2:59
I am having some I believe it would be anxiety, almost I don't know if it's an attack, but some anxiety reactions to when I think about any event that is coming up. And I feel tightness in my throat, I feel some butterflies almost nausea in my stomach. And really, I just find like I'm tight in the shoulders like they see all these. That's how my physical is responding. And I know it's something that I want to take part in that I want to go to. But my mind is saying no, no, this is scary. You know how how can I work through that and show up and not be feeling those negative physical and mental reactions? How can I be there and have some peace?
Trisha Fuller 3:58
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, you also feel it like there's a vibration in your chest like that. It's like and then and then like it kind of radiates and it almost makes you breathe very shallow. Right? tightness and there's a cool sweat that goes along with it. Is that correct?
Deena Kordt 4:17
That will that does come up. When I really think about it. It's like a tingle all over and just a sweat of nerves.
Trisha Fuller 4:26
Right? And if you think about it, where is your thinking at the time when that happens? Like is it out here? Or are you talking to yourself in your head?
Deena Kordt 4:39
I'd say some of both I am picturing the crowd that will be there the people who may be there, how are they perceiving me? How do they see me? And so that could be like an imposter syndrome that I am now creating from in my head Based on what I think the outside is perceiving me as.
Trisha Fuller 5:05
Okay, cool. So that's a whole different thing. And we're gonna have to talk about that another day in that there's no such thing as imposter syndrome, I have a huge problem with that phrase, it is just a money making, grab, that causes people to think that they have a problem. So I'm going to wash your mouth out. So if I ever catch you saying that again, but we'll do a whole different thing on that another day. But so the thing is, is when you're thinking about it, you you you think you're externally in the situation. But when a person essentially what you're describing is almost like a phobic response, right? Like an intense fear response, the adrenaline spikes, the heart races, the shoulders Teslic, the muscles just go into fight or flight, right? So a getting a person to be externally curious, is ideal. However, we often can't get them out of their head, until we've changed something called physiology. So physiology is what you do with your body. So you can't you can't again, think your way out of the paper bag. So like, you can't just like control your thoughts. It doesn't work that way. So let's, let's interrupt the pattern. But first, I actually need you to on a scale of like zero to 10 zero being completely calm and 10 being like, almost needing to be medicated anxious. Get yourself as though you're in the situation right now. So that you can actually see the tangible result in this. Okay, so like, get it to at least like a four. Can you can you like kind of close your eyes or like, imagine that you're in the situation right now?
Deena Kordt 6:44
That's about a seven. Okay. Okay.
Trisha Fuller 6:48
So first of all, now close your eyes and make it an EIGHT. Oh, I know. That seems a little mean, but uncomfortable. Right. Okay, so open your eyes and realize I just proved that you can control it. Yes. If you can increase it, your brain can infer that it can also decrease it. Yes. Powerful. Yes. Okay, so just make sure I know you just had an aha now you just went through about a six again, make sure you're back at that seven. Feel that? Oh my god and the chest and like it's, it's almost like shallow breathing and your voice is like very faint. Right? You're almost passive. Pulling away, right? Yeah. Okay, got it. Now open your eyes. And just do this one hand, two hands, one hand, two hands. Now, if you imagine X, open, close, make a fist. Slow down a little bit. Actually pretend you're milking a cow. Because if you actually have the image of milking a cow, this works even better. Now, pretend you're in this situation, to yourself in this situation during this now tell me what happens to that number.
Deena Kordt 8:07
It's about a six.
Trisha Fuller 8:14
Like, you don't even have to think about it, you can still see yourself in that conversation. And it's almost like you're doing nothing. And you're controlling it. We change your physiology. So what you were doing with your body changes the chemical process in the brain. People can do this, like I do this with like phobia responses for driving. I do this with phobia responses, like that can happen on the steering wheel, right? Like I'm not saying take your hands out, right? It can happen with people who are having a phobia of flying, right? We just interrupted the pattern and in a matter of like, 20 seconds, you were able to take it down two points. And if I let you do it longer, imagine how much more neutral you would be. Which would make you presently outside of your head and looking at them taking in the information.
Deena Kordt 9:06
This is so cool.
Trisha Fuller 9:09
you see yourself? Actually just
Deena Kordt 9:13
Yes. And and, you know, we're creating, I'm creating this response. And I'm not even in that situation yet. And so to to practice that ahead of time. Will, I'm guessing de escalate that reaction when I'm actually there.
Trisha Fuller 9:30
Yeah, at the end again, that's that perfect practice. If you picture in your mind actually doing this technique, then it then has that resource state where it's like, I'm gonna do that. And this is how I'm going to respond. You're pre planning your destination.
Deena Kordt 9:46
Fascinating.
Trisha Fuller 9:46
So when you so it's easy, you could be having a conversation and just do this and nobody even noticed this because your hands are at your side. Yeah. Okay, so, behind your back notice. Yeah, notice that I do did not say both at the same time. Yes. That's interesting. It has to be one one than the other. Okay? Because that is called bilateral brain stimulation, it makes the neurons cross the corpus callosum, okay, has to be one than the other. So the idea of a stress ball was a good idea. However, people end up doing it at the same time, which is firing off an invaluable response.
Deena Kordt 10:27
Okay, very important point to make that it is separate from each other. Cool. Cool. Okay. Well, we'll
Trisha Fuller 10:37
leave it at that and we'll do something else another day.
Deena Kordt 10:39
Okay, thank you. Trisha. Fantastic.
Trisha Fuller 10:41
Thank you. Deena.
Deena Kordt 10:42
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