your time is up move forward and let go of this experience UP All emotions are a normal part of human experience Pushing away negative feelings increases anxious thinking Regularly identifying your feelings will decrease anxiety Expressing your feelings will decrease anxiety Accepting your emotional world will decrease anxiety You can experience negative feelings and still be okay CH APTER THREE Your Body Physical Sensations Anxiety and the Body Cole struggled with debilitating physical symptoms including lack of appetite racing heart an inability to concentrate feeling internally keyed up and insomnia with racing thoughts These distressing symptoms were all he could talk about because they were so unnerving Cole understandably felt as if his body was betraying him and that no amount of work would solve this Anxiety regularly shows itself with physical symptoms At some point sometimes after years of experiencing such symptoms the dam breaks and the body will no longer be ignored For Cole this meant such intense heart palpitations that he would become dizzy and pass out Other people might react in a different way like succumbing to acute exhaustion or no longer being able to drive because of severe back spasms or being unable to