Just wanted to share to everyone that this mindset shift is the key. I had every anxiety symptom in the book in the past year, and at times some were 24/7. I am now at a point where I feel very little symptoms- calm and peace is actually attainable again. And it feels much sweeter once you go through this. The ONLY thing that has worked to get me to this point, was to stop fighting it, and change my relationship with it. Everything Dan preaches here. Keep responding to it in the right way, and you’ll get there in time. The subconscious takes a little time to get the message, but it will learn that you are safe. Also, once my symptoms almost completely went away, I got a new symptom of dizziness(more of an off balance feeling), typical symptom imperative- but I responded to it in the same way as the anxiety without being impressed by it, and it went away in a week and a half. This stuff works, folks. Thanks so much Dan for your videos- they have helped me a bunch in the last year when I was having doubts and my fear was getting the better of me

Being self aware and coming back to breathing is a great. Even if you get distracted keep coming back to breathing. Don’t fight the panic, embrace the panic. Make the anxiety and panic your friend. :)

The sensations we get when we are anxious are the same as when we are excited. The difference is the thoughts we have around these emotions. Anxiety gives us negative thoughts, excitement gives us positive thoughts.

I now view Tractor Boy as a sign of warm weather. It has become as positive as birds chirping! 😂😂😂

Anxiety was really horrible for me, when I wasn’t aware of it that the symptoms came from my current state of mind: anxiety - being anxious about something. Once I realized it, that I was dealing with anxiety and the symptoms are only the „storefront“, I got much better. I still have anxiety with its various symptoms from time to time (right now actually - new job coming up), but I try to accept it and ride on the wave (I know it’s hard sometimes). However, use the opportunity to practice what we know (TMS), when symptoms are high. Nice song btw: Santana - Practice what you preach 😎

Hey there. Haven’t been here for a while. I watched Dan for about 6 months everyday. He helped me so much that I don’t need to listen anymore. How’s that for a recommendation! Dan, you are awesome!

Let anxiety “wash over you like a day at the beach.” It’s a great thought and self soothing visualization, the gem I’m taking away from todays video. Tractor boy 😂

Thnks dan you describe no one die from anxiety. Allow it to be there

Just like with TMS sensations/symptoms allow anxiety and thoughts to pass. The more you try to get rid of it, the more it will hang around. Thanks Dan! TMS really teaches us to relax more and stress less!

I'm not anxious about anxiety! I'm anxious about falling again and getting broken again and ending in hospital, and as I live alone and would have to manage on my own this is major. It doesn't matter that I probably won't fall again, my body has kept the score. I have PTSD and I freeze. I can't get across a road. I'm not anxious about it - my legs won't move. I can't go forward or back. I've done all the stuff, talked to my brain etc etc but my legs won't do it.

Sat up in "my" park looking at the trees too. I ❤️ spring. Crap morning when builders turned up outside my bedroom window 7.15am, grr. Had a debate with the manager. Got myself up to church for some space, calm and peace. Telling myself life too short to suffer anxiety etc over building works and other stuff out if my remit. A few weeks and it'll be done. Made some difficult phone calls, why is it that common sense seems to have vanished from most situations 😂. Definitely gonna take a new approach to the anxiety. Stay with it, knowing I'm safe. Thanks for today's video, appreciate. Anxiety is like premium "fear" fuel.

Relax in Peace..as much as possible..letting the feelings simply be there. Impatience creates anxiety..pain and symptoms. 😊❤

Wow, Sarno fan here, just discovered you Dan! I’m immediately taken in by your passion, focus, and pleasant demeanor. Good vibes man! Looking forward to calmness and healing with you at the helm! God bless!

What a wonderful topic! Anxiety as a wave. Let it pass through and over. Much like our thoughts as an open house. Come on in! Have a look around. Let me know if you have any questions. The doors are open. Come and go as you please. I get tickled at myself when I have thoughts that are anxious or angry or fearful. It seems to help me to ask myself why I might be feeling this way or that. As if I am an outsider looking in… hmmmm, why am I so angry with her? Then, answer honestly. She is controlling. She makes me feel small. Ohhhhh, okay. She makes you feel small. Am I less than? No, you are fine and you cannot control her behavior. You can only do the next right thing. Changing my internal dialogue to a “curious interview” has helped so much with anxious thinking. Have a great day everyone!

I love to binge listen to your videos while I’m getting ready for an appointment or putting on my make up, etc. Such a good use of my time!

Great explanation! Thanks again Dan! 🌊🙏😊 It just occurred to me that anxiety is like Tractor Boy chopping wood. There's noise, but that doesn't stop Dan from making the video.

Dan, I had persistent one-sided neck pain for 8 months and attempted various treatments, starting with physical therapy and acupuncture and exploring different topicals and massages. Unfortunately, none of them seemed to provide relief. Then, one fortunate day, I stumbled upon your videos and began to watch and comprehend the underlying logic. Remarkably, my neck pain has significantly diminished, and I no longer fret about it. While it occasionally tenses up due to my computer work, the improvement is substantial, ranging from 80-90%. Every time I listen to your speech, I experience a sense of tranquility and an immediate reduction in anxiety. While I still have some other health issues, your guidance has helped me eliminate one of them! Much respect and heartfelt appreciation from Estonia!!

I have white coat syndrome, I-go to the doctor and my BP is was up there , 170/100, as soon as I see the cuff and feel the cuff squeezing around my arm, I feel a huge surge in adrenaline. They want me to go on meds, but I’m not going down that path….. I get home and my first reading is usually high now too, but over time as I feel myself calm down so does my BP. I read a book by Dr Russell Kennedy recently, (Anxiety RX)he has a similar perspective to Dan’s, get out of your head and into your body This video today was just what I needed to hear, I took my BP earlier, I could feel my anxiety build putting in the cuff…155/94 ATHOME!!! After telling myself I was safe and focusing on breathing into my belly, it came down to 136/82 in a few minutes Crazy stuff this TMS/PDP

I have come to accept that I have TMS and agree with all you have said both on this video. My anxiety is mostly from the issue of the pain meds I was pit on 5 years ago. They have me dependent on them and I have cut back and I do go through some mild to moderate withdrawal symptoms. The problem is that over the last few months it has been harder to get my script filled. I have a huge fear of going into withdrawal and feel it might take me a year to slowly taper down to zero. But every month when it is time to fill my script I hear they are out of stock or the meds are back ordered. It's crazy because if it was just the pain I was worried about I think I could make more progress.

Hi Dan, thank you so much for your daily videos, that I watch every single day for 7 months now. I appreciate your tireless and passionate work to help people who struggle with TMS/PDP. I suffer from ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia and have symptoms 24/7. I can stay pretty calm towards all the weird sensations such as tingling, twitching and also the pain, but it seems to be almost impossible, not to fear the debilitating fatique, because it keeps me stuck in bed for a year now, unable to live my my life or distract myself. I am also sensitive to screens and lose my ability to communicate with people, because every conversation triggers strong bodily symptoms. That makes me feel really anxious and desperate. Any advise how I can dig myself out of this dark hole?

🙏🙏🙏 A lot of us - most of us, do not have a therapist on hand to talk to in times of anxiety but we have Dan's videos to look up and reassure us in the moments. I agree with what you are saying. I think anxiety is just like any other TMS symptom - not to say it is not tough to deal with , it is - in fact when I think when mine came on - pretty much same time as the rest of the TMS symptoms . All CNS related , all tied together.

Excellent Dan!

Good morning Dan and PFY community ❤ I had free-floating anxiety for over two years at one point in my life. It would hit out of nowhere and yes, it’s really uncomfortable. The only technique that I found to be helpful was to lean into it and breathe through it. The word anxiety actually comes from German, and it means a closing off of the channel. Our natural inclination is to breathe shallowly so we don’t feel the anxiety but what we have to do is actually the opposite. It does come in waves when I first got my TMS diagnosis from a Doctor Who studied with Sarno I had heart palpitations for over a month and a lot of anxiety. It takes a lot of courage to walk this path. We are all brave warriors 💫🦸‍♀️

The problem with me is that my stressor is my dad. He is very toxic and I live with him after I lost my mom. I try to stay away as much as possible, but it's impossible to avoid him completely because he's very dependable on me. I feel better when I go for walks or just spend time with other people. Your information definitely works. Thank you!!

Another version of "accept and allow", especially during a panic attack, is to deliberately try to make and hope for your symptoms to become worse. It seems to be the most powerful version of accept and allow and really can make the anxiety burn out quickly. The problem is that you can't use the technique to get rid of the anxiety. You need to truly be fed enough to say 'screw it, give me your worst' and then paradoxically it seems to just wither away. Michael Norman is the person I heard about the technique from. I imagine you could use it for any symptoms though. I know it works for depression as well.

Wow… thanks Dan for posting this topic.. I happen to be affected with this exact issue for a few weeks now and it’s become a bit absorbing in my life. I never had these sensations so constant before.. the heart rate increasing is a bit disturbing and it really helped to hear this again. It’s like I was meant to hear it this morning..💜 I have been touched by wack a mo once more and it’s like my brain found something that got my attention once again 😞 I’m practicing the tips and accepting that this is where I am now, I will come out at the other end..🙏🏼🙏🏼

Hi Dan had to laugh about tractor boy 😀I treat anxiety the same as my symptoms pain stay calm and it will pass. Had some very bad panic attacks no fun. The fysical sensations of panic attacks are no fun now I know it is my brain perceiving danger. So I accept and allow them (got the Dare app now) because as my symptoms they are not dangerous. I can't think these panic attackd away. Ok nothing more to add don't feel so good today going to take it easy. Love you Dan and everyone else a big hug and smile from me see you all tomorrow 😘😘😘

So true, anxiety is a passing wave.

Dan, I’ve said this before, but you are truly doing God’s work. I am so thankful for you. I feel like this video is so simplified that I fully understand what’s going on. It’s PDP. I’ve had anxiety so much of my life bc I’m so afraid of it. Just like my “fibromyalgia”. I have to say, though, over the years of watching your videos I hadn’t realized how much better I am feeling. I’m hoping to be a success story! And could you hurry up with that book? Lol

Many people find that just quitting coffee and all other forms of caffeine significantly reduces their chronic anxiety and in some cases even gets rid of it completely. Caffeine is in a lot of things, not just coffee. Mountain Dew for example has caffeine, so does black and green tea, so do some painkillers like Excedrin, so does chocolate.

Dan now I realize when we slow down slow down and confidence increase. That the only way to overcome slowly slowly. Slow it's take time, the pecens and dare is the key factor

Hi Dan Thank you for all that you give out.Very helpful to so many of us.❤

So glad you mentioned the DARE Response. DARE save my sanity a few years ago when I was mired in high anxiety that seemed permanent. The book and the app are both great, so is the online community. DARE also has many free videos and a free podcast on KZfaq. It's helping me again as I recover from chronic fatigue due to TMS after covid.

Wow Dan what I needed to here this today thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thanks Dan exactly what I needed to hear today

Thanks again Dan❤🎉 great video.

I was with my brother in law the other day ...he was driving on the freeway during nightime and it triggered a huge anxiety.. Especially when I felt the car was accelerating Whenever I am in a situation of speed or adrenaline I get a panick attack. .I had to look down during the entire trip BUT this time I realized: this is not dangerous, it's just uncomfortable It's temporary ...I ll be fine as soon as I get home. Old me reaction would have been me screaming : "OMG take me please to the hospital , I am gonna faint , please help OMG' Well I tried to look straight at the road but it was too painful and stressful..how do I become fearless ( and normal haha)?

Your videos are so so amazing! Dan I feel tension in my stomach and neck back muscles. Not even pain (that only starts a bit later sometimes). It happens in my unconscious brain, mostly it is there without a specific reason. Is that also a “symptom” that you just treat the same way? With soothing and reassurance instead of digging and despair?

I started to calm down over the years with anxiety three years ago I got pixelating lights in my eyes which lasted about 10:mins I was worried for a while then I just got on with things then about 9 months in got them again, then a few months went past they started again lately there coming every week or two , one morning before I opened my eyes, now I’m anxious because I don’t like them and scared although I had my eye check I told them about them they wasn’t too concerned it’s like I was really doing well and these come from no where there called silent migraines I have had acute anxiety for years never had these before, I hope they go an not come back I don’t get head aches with them tho, I do get a lot of tension in my neck and the back of my head 🙏🏻

Very helpful as always Dan.

Can I ask some of you if you can explain the physical symptoms you get so I don't know I'm going mad , mine just don't go at least till the afternoons and start as soon as I get out of bed .

Brilliant video, thanks so much for all you do Dan! I am healing from ME/CFS. The NS disregulation has caused a lot of anxiety, which I absolutely know is rooted in my brain perceiving my situation / life / movement / symptoms as unsafe. My challenge is that the anxiety results in debilitating post exertional malaise if I don’t nip it in the bud relatively quickly, which has definitely created anxiety about anxiety. Do you have any wise words here? If I just leave it there in the background whilst practicing indifference towards it, I end up with PEM. Feels like a bit of a chicken and egg situation! 🙏

Dan, I have two questions: - do you think it's even possible to employ the 'dare' response -- a version of the 'bring it on' attitude -- when the pain is really, really bad (CPPS in my case)? Is there a Buddhist in every mortal, waiting to be discovered? :) - do you think doing one's best to remain reasonably calm and indifferent to the symptoms is a more feasible strategy than this somewhat counterintuitive mental gymnastics of 'welcoming', 'embracing', 'curiously observing and describing' the pain?

It feels dangerous I have 24/7 anxiety it never passes

Dan what do we do when we feel GOOD but that feels uncomfortable or weird?

I think you need to do a blooper video of every time tractor boy crashed your videos.

What happened to the birds??

Why does my pain never stop? I wake up in pain and go to sleep in pain. I never get a break.

Hey Dan, I know this is a random request, but could you make a video about a significant other breaking up with you while you’re healing? It’s having a huge impact on my stress/pain level. I’m losing an 8 year relationship (we have a 2 year old daughter together) because he’s stressed and “sick of me not trying to get better” -meaning doctors, pills, and the conventional route. Every day he tells me “your book isn’t going to cure you” in reference to a Sarno book I have. I’ve given up trying to explain the mind body connection to him. Quite frankly he just doesn’t care and I think he’s wanted out for a long time and is using my sickness as a convenient excuse. Either way it sucks and it’s making my healing journey even harder. I know you’ve went through breakups and divorce during your journey. Any tips?

Hi Dan do you think women who are off menopause age can use all these tools as sometimes alot of the anxiety can be crazy off balanced hormones would be calm and reassuring help in this thank you

Anxiety disorders causes lot of these pain back pain is listed as gad symptom.

Who is the barry guy you mentioned ?

Ride waves.. don't duck 🦆 under them