37. Post-Recovery Anxiety Tips: Slowing Down - The Anxious Morning Feb 22, 2022
Channel: The Anxious Truth
Date: 22/02/2022

One of the great lessons I learned in my recovery is that speed is an almost automatic response to anxiety, fear, and stress.  As soon as I had an anxious thought or experienced a sensation in my body that scared me, I would start walking faster, talking faster, breathing faster, and generally acting like I had just been shot out of a canon. 

Once I noticed this, I started to work on intentionally slowing down when I felt anxious. It took all kinds of work and lots of practice to break my speed habit.  But over time, I did train myself to slow down when that wave of fear hit me.  I would intentionally slow my breathing and move myself through space at what sometimes felt like a snail’s pace.  It wasn’t, but it did feel that way to my anxious brain.  

This worked quite well for me.

This is The Anxious Morning for February 22, 2022
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