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so what is anxiety well anxiety in itself 
is neither good nor bad it's just an emotion  

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it's an emotion just like happiness, anger ,
sadness, it is something we have built in  

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it's something which is actually very useful 
despite what everybody is saying because  

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it's your internal alarm system that is telling 
you that something not right, there's a threat  

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around you and you should do something about it.
And what the anxiety does, it tends to trigger  

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what is called the fight-or-flight response, 
which actually is a freeze fight-or-flight

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response because under threat, if you under 
attack, you have three options: you play dead,

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you run like hell or you fight like hell. Those are 
three options that you get.

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so as you have anxiety building up it's pushing you more and more

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okay pick one of those options, pick one of those options

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and it's really building you up towards those responses

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and it's getting your body ready to do that fast

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it's a built-in, it's a very ancient system

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we share that with many animals in the animal kingdom

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from lizards to horses to dogs, birds, whatever

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and that alarm system really what it does is as you're under threat

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prepares you, so what's happening is you have

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a lot of physical symptoms kicking in

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so as you start to get more and more anxious

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the first thing you're going to notice is your heart rate increasing

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to get more blood in your body

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your breathing becomes more shallow and faster trying to get more oxygen in your blood

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so you can act, faster and harder

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you will notice as well maybe some tingling,

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maybe in your arms and legs as all the blood supply

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goes away from your skin to the major muscle groups

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such as your legs and your arms

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you will notice for the same reason butterflies in your stomach

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or the digestive system just shutting down because that's not the essential

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so the energy goes to where it needs to go to fight the threat

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the immune system as well tends to shut down for a while

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whilst you are under pressure, while you're in an anxious state

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because now is not the time to fight disease

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now it's time to fight the bear or whatever is coming your way

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and the other thing as well is the more anxious you get

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the more your cognitive function, your high level function shuts down  

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basically you end up in a brain fog, you got tunnel vision

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and you can't think clear anymore

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because if you're under threat now is not the time to think

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like hmm that bear coming my way there,

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is it hungry, is it angry maybe he's like aaah I'm dead

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so basically we've evolved to survive by

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running away as much as we can not by debating

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whether or not we can deal with this threat adequately

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you have to act fast and now

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so thinking? Not now. so

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that's why maybe, for example, if you feel a bit anxious

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you may read an email or try to do a simple task

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and you just can't do it that's the brainfog that comes with it

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that's normal.

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So that's all the symptoms from anxiety 

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So if anxiety is normally, if anxiety is actually useful on the threat  

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when is it a problem?

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Well there's a couple of things here

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one thing is that we've evolved to use anxiety for non-physical threats as well

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so we now become anxious for deadlines,

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job interviews, first dates even or anything like that or

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or maybe or something I said to someone "what will they think about it",

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all these kind of things which are not physically dangerous

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are perceived by your brain as a threat

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and triggers that anxiety disorder and

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when exactly it becomes a problem it's when we've got too much of it

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because anxiety was developed as a spiked response to a threat

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you get attacked by something, you deal with those threats

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you come down and you move on okay

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that's how it should be like, that's why it's been

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evolved to become this way

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but as a human we tend to have too many issues with anxiety

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one is that our alarm system becomes far far too sensitive

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imagine if you have a fire alarm in your kitchen

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that will trigger at the thought of making your toast

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for some people it's that sensitive and it will trigger out of nowhere

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for many many many reasons okay, it's not their fault

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that's just whether it's trauma or they're under threat all the time

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many different reasons so that's one thing, far too sensitive alarm system

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the other one is when you are in a chronic state of anxiety as well

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so instead of "okay, the anxiety, deal with a threat, calm down, move on"

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we are in that state where all the energy, all the resources are geared

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toward "freeze, fight or flight" and none of it is designed for "rest and digest and repair"

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so over time it becomes very damaging on your body

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your immune system is down, you can't think clearly

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you're flooded with stress hormones, it's exhausting

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it's damaging your body because it's not designed for that

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so that way it becomes a problem and it will then trigger

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a lot of different health problems moving on, a lot of tension and things like that

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so not a good thing

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so the next question would be "is it common?"

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unfortunately yes, it is quite common

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I've got some some figures here and in a survey in Great Britain

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1 in 6 adults had experienced some form of

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neurotic health problems in the previous week

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now the most common neurotic disorder that were experienced

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were anxiety and depressive disorders

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more than 1 in 10 people are likely to have a disabling anxiety disorder at some stage

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in their lives, that's a lot!

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and an estimated 13% of the population will develop

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a specific form of anxiety known as a phobia at some point in their life

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just for that 13%t of people will develop a phobia

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so all those anxiety issues comes in different forms

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it could be like I said phobias like agoraphobia, claustrophobia and so on

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general anxiety disorder where you go that overwhelming sense of doom and dread

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it could be health anxiety, it could be OCD, hoarding, PTSD, social anxiety

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and that's just in just a few, there are many many different symptoms on that

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now is it treatable?

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well you don't cure anxiety

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you don't get rid of anxiety because again it's a natural useful internal system

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that we all have

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what we aim to do is to bring it back under control,

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to reset it like if your burglar alarm is triggering all the time

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you're not just taking out the batteries out of it

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what you do you call an engineer, they go and fix it, they reset it

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and you now have a functioning alarm so you are safe

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same thing with anxiety

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you reset the alarm, you bring it back under control, so it does its job properly

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and you move on with your life

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so this course will give you a lot of different tried and tested tools

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that will help you  reduce the sensitivity of your alarm system

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and help you get back under control of it as much as you can

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so I hope you will enjoy the rest of the course

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thank you very much