429: How to Calm Your Health Anxiety and Feel Peace of Mind
In this episode, we’re talking about how to be free from health anxiety and introducing our new First Responder Course.
Let’s begin our conversation defining health anxiety.
What is Health Anxiety?
Health Anxiety is the fear that something we feel in our body is a symptom of a serious illness. Once the fear kicks in, the mind quickly creates a story that escalates our anxiety into a stream of unwanted and disturbing thoughts.
Often the symptoms we worry about are the symptoms of anxiety itself. Other times we may fixate on body sensations that we fear might be a sign of something serious.
Health Anxiety as Unwanted Thoughts
Health Anxiety usually starts with doubt about our wellbeing which quickly grows into a story of possible illness complete with all the awful details.
The key to overcoming Health Anxiety is to catch these thoughts and either divert them or stop them spiralling out of control, and that is what you’ll learn in our new Anxiety Slayer First Responder Series for Health Anxiety.
The disturbed mind will always look for evidence of what we fear the most
Health anxiety prompts us to Google Symptoms and keep checking in with our bodies, or we might freeze and fixate on any feelings we think are causes for great concern.
Health Anxiety is the worst use of our imagination
In a similar way to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, the mind gets stuck on checking and searching. Repeatedly scanning for evidence of symptoms of illness.
Health anxiety feels very personal as we fixate on one fear at a time. Often once one fear is relieved after a trip to the Doctor, we will move on to another. This shows that the source of our suffering is not a particular illness, but anxiety churning up our mind and provoking it to fixate on one fear and then the next.
Health anxiety puts us in an anxiety cycle that stresses our body.
While we are worrying about our health, we aren't helping our health. Stress and anxiety keep us in flight or fight mode, for good health and immunity we need to spend as much time as possible in rest and repair mode.
We can learn to switch over to rest and repair with breathing practices, guided relaxations, walking and EFT Tapping.
These practices all help us switch from fight or flight to the relaxation response which sends a signal to our body to begin its repair and maintenance work.
*Our new course is designed to help you calm healthy anxiety and feel more relaxed in your body.*
The two approaches covered in this course can help you:
Calm your health anxiety, divert anxious thoughts, and stop fixating on symptoms
And relax into rest and repair mode to support your body’s own natural healing ability
What you will learn
How to calm Health Anxiety thoughts
How to stop fixating on symptoms and sensations
How to use EFT Tapping for stopping Health Anxiety and building peace of mind
Explore 4 key teachings on bringing the mind away from fear and into the present moment.
Learn a calming breathing practice for slowing racing thoughts
Follow a Guided Body Scan Practice for feeling calm and safe in your body.
And know how to practice Ayurvedic oil massage for boosting immune health and peace of mind.
In Closing:
To overcome Health Anxiety, you need effective techniques for diverting and calming anxious thoughts before they spiral out of control. You also need to know how to calm your reaction to perceived symptoms and feel relaxed and at home in your body.
Learn how to calm your health anxiety and enjoy more peace of mind by enrolling in our new Anxiety Slayer First Responder Series for Health Anxiety today with our special INTRODUCTORY OFFER.