Coaching practices for My Anxiety Lives in My Body the Racing Heart the Buzzing the Wired Feeling and I Keep Avoiding Exercise Because a Pounding Heart Feels Too Much Like a Panic Coming on Even Though Some Part of Me Suspects Moving Would Actually Burn the Edge Off

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• My anxiety lives in my body
• What I’m really afraid of isn’t a place or a situation
• What I’m actually terrified of isn’t out there in the world
• The instant I feel my heart skip or my chest tighten, I’m sure something is really wrong with me, and the fear of the sensation spins it into something bigger
• The second I feel my heart pound or my chest tighten I clench up and try to force it to stop, and the fighting just cranks it higher

Practices that may help

1. Exercise to lower anxiety
   Use movement to discharge physical arousal and recalibrate the alarm system.
   Exercise for Mental Health
2. Interoceptive exposure for physical anxiety sensations
   Deliberately produce feared bodily sensations (racing heart, dizziness) to learn they are tolerable.
   Exposure Therapy: Facing Fears to Shrink Them
3. 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
4. Interoceptive awareness
   Practice noticing and naming body sensations neutrally, so they stop reading as alarms.
   The Anxiety Toolkit, Made Practical
5. Allow the sensations without resisting
   Let the physical feelings of anxiety be present instead of bracing against them.
   The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical
6. Allow the sensations instead of fighting them
   Do not try to stop the racing heart, the dizziness, the breathlessness — allow them and observe.
   Panic Surfing
7. Use somatic tracking instead of distraction
   Observe sensations with neutral curiosity rather than distracting from them — the curiosity interrupts the threat appraisal.
   Panic Surfing
8. Reframe physiological arousal as challenge activation, not threat
   Tell yourself the racing heart is your body preparing to perform — because physiologically, it often is.
   Challenge vs. Threat Appraisal, Made Practical
9. External focus: redirect attention away from bodily sensations
   Shift attention outward during anxiety to disrupt the monitoring loop that amplifies sensations.
   The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical
10. Reframe stress as a challenge
    Read your racing heart as your body gearing up, not as evidence something is wrong.
    Cognitive Reframing, Made Practical

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