Coaching practices for Anxiety Sensitivity Exercise

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• My anxiety spikes so fast and over so little that I’m tired of just putting out fires
• The anxiety hits in the middle of a meeting or while I’m standing in line, and I can’t exactly close my eyes and name what I smell in front of everyone
• My anxiety lives in my body
• When I make myself face the scary scenario I end up still wound up and rattled afterward, and then I dread doing it again
• I can feel the wave starting to build

Practices that may help

1. Improve CO2 tolerance to reduce anxiety sensitivity
   The 7-count hold in 4-7-8 builds CO2 tolerance — a key factor in anxiety reactivity and panic thresholds.
   4-7-8 Breathing, Made Practical
2. Use a 30-second micro-grounding version for public settings
   In public or meetings, a single-sense version — three named things you can see — takes 30 seconds and shows nothing.
   The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique
3. Exercise to lower anxiety
   Use movement to discharge physical arousal and recalibrate the alarm system.
   Exercise for Mental Health
4. Combine worry exposure with relaxation skill
   After the exposure period, apply a relaxation practice to close each session with a deactivation phase.
   Worry Exposure, Made Practical
5. Rapid relaxation: achieve a relaxation response in 20–30 seconds
   Deploy a practiced, condensed relaxation sequence the moment anxiety begins rising.
   Applied Relaxation, Made Practical
6. Add interoceptive rungs for bodily fear
   If you fear the physical sensations of anxiety itself, include exposures that deliberately induce them.
   The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical
7. Generalize exposure to naturalistic triggers
   Seek out real-world situations that naturally produce the sensations you have been practicing with.
   Interoceptive Exposure for Panic
8. Use grounding before anxiety peaks, not after
   Start the technique at the first sign of anxiety — not once the wave is overwhelming.
   The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique
9. Apply EFT to specific performance anxiety triggers
   EFT has the strongest self-guided evidence for test anxiety, public speaking, and sports performance stress.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
10. Run the full 5-4-3-2-1 sequence
    Work through all five senses in order: 5 things seen, 4 heard, 3 touched, 2 smelled, 1 tasted.
    The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique

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