368. Why the Advice “Just Sit With Your Anxiety” Hasn’t Helped You

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You may have heard the advice “You need to sit with your anxiety” when you feel anxious and aren’t able to focus. You may have tried to get still and quiet when anxiety hits, but with no results. It’s hard to keep your mind off the to-do list and deadlines, and even though you try so hard to make your mind calm, you just can’t.

The reason why this approach — just get calm and sit with anxiety — may not have worked for you is that anxiety is a feeling that is full of intense energy. When you pay attention to your body when you’re anxious, you realize that it doesn’t want to sit still, it wants to move.

So my advice is to first MOVE your body in some ways when you feel this anxiety energy in you. It can look like shaking, tapping, bouncing or even walking. And once you have discharged that intense energy, you can then move on to more quietness and stillness.

This is one part that I teach in my new live program, Somatic Souwork! We’re going to do different somatic practices to help release intense anxiety and other difficult emotions from the body. It’s not about forcing them away but it’s about allowing them to express themselves.

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