Latest / Bye Bye Panic / How To Get Out of Survival Mode (Nervous System Reset)

Transcript

How To Get Out of Survival Mode (Nervous System Reset) · Bye Bye Panic

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: For years, I was under constant stress from never-ending anxious thoughts.
• 0:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even trying to relax just made me realize how anxious I was.
• 0:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: I felt completely trapped.
• 0:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: This happened for so long.
• 0:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I forgot what a calm day even looked like.
• 0:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: What broke the cycle wasn't trying to fix my stress or anxiety levels.
• 0:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: My issue was that I had a nervous system that was stuck in a perpetual fighter flight state.
• 0:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't need to talk to my friends, I didn't need to journal more or try to think my way out of this.
• 0:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: What I needed was a nervous system reset.
• 0:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Since doing this, I've been completely free from debilitating anxiety,
• 0:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: for years, and so in this video I'm going to share with you how you can reset your nervous system and take a giant lead to recovering from anxiety.
• 0:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Step 1.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Stop trying to avoid the feeling.
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: When your nervous system is hyper-stimulated, it can misinterpret sensations, thoughts, and emotions as actual danger.
• 0:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Our body's first natural responses I need to get away from this.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: So whenever we have these symptoms, these sensations, these feelings, and we try to escape it, we tell our nervous system that this is dangerous.
• 1:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: When we were surviving thousands of years ago in the African Savannah, we'd often run away from predators.
• 1:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: But in today's day in age, stress looks very different.
• 1:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: We end up distracting ourselves.
• 1:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: We end up scrolling through our phones.
• 1:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: We will people please.
• 1:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll do anything but feel these symptoms and sensations.
• 1:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: These are protective reflexes that served us at one point, but this avoidance eventually drains our nervous system.
• 1:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's no longer running away from a tiger, but it's running away from heart palpitations, from that feeling of impending doom, from the sadness, from the anxiousness,
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: all these sensations and all these feelings, we end up running away from.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: So the first thing to do is to feel these sensations feel the emotions.
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: When my nervous system was in survival mode, I was convinced that my symptoms were a medical issue.
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: My symptoms were so intense that this wasn't just anxiety or stress.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was experiencing panic attacks, I was getting intense physical symptoms like breathlessness, heart palpitations, digestive issues, brain fog, and I would end up Google searching my symptoms, I would go to doctors, I would get reassurances from my friends and family, but really what I was doing was I was trying to escape how I was feeling.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: See, your nervous system doesn't know the difference between a real threat and an imagined threat.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: So even if we're running away from something internal, like a symptom, emotional discomfort, or racing thoughts, your body doesn't know the difference between that and running away from a tiger.
• 2:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: That fighter flight response that's supposed to last only a couple of minutes ends up lasting years.
• 2:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: This program over time becomes our default conditioning.
• 2:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not feeling safety, it's just stuck in survival mode.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: So before you even do anything, allow these feelings to come, let them be there, don't resist, don't fight.
• 3:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Step two, develop curiosity over analysis.
• 3:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: When you stop avoiding how you feel, the next trap most people fall into is trying to figure out why they feel this way.
• 3:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: We try to figure it out because we hope if we can figure this out that we can solve this.
• 3:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: We look at our feelings the way we look at a math equation.
• 3:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're honest with yourself, analysis is another form of control.
• 3:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's another form of avoidance.
• 3:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you just need to feel, why do you need to analyze?
• 3:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Why do you need to run to your head?
• 3:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's better to stay in the body with that sensation, with that feeling.
• 3:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: See, analysis keeps the brain in problem-solving mode instead of showing it's safety.
• 3:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: So instead of trying to analyze and trying to figure this out,
• 3:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just view your sensations, feelings, and emotions with curiosity.
• 3:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Curiosity is a lighter energy.
• 3:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have the same urgency to find the right answer.
• 3:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe the answer comes to you?
• 3:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it doesn't.
• 3:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Curiosity is just observing without judging it.
• 4:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's observing it without trying to control it, without adding narratives or stories behind why you feel a certain way.
• 4:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: This sounds small, but this shift can change everything.
• 4:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: When I was dealing with intense symptoms, one thing that helped me was learning the mechanics of anxiety.
• 4:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: How anxiety creates such physical symptoms, panic attacks, and trusive thoughts.
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Once I understand how the nervous system stays stuck in survival mode, I didn't need to analyze every symptom or sensation.
• 4:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just viewed these symptoms with curiosity.
• 4:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it was their one moment, and maybe one moment it wasn't.
• 4:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: but I didn't try to manipulate it.
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: This gave my body a chance to relax.
• 4:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: I recognized that Sean was no longer reacting in panic or fear of these symptoms.
• 4:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because I just observed him and just refocused, the nervous system on its own began to reset.
• 4:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: The symptoms began to lift and over time, the symptoms just disappeared.
• 5:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, if you wanna deeper look into my recovery journey,
• 5:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: and how I use these principles, download my ebook for free.
• 5:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: The link is in the description box.
• 5:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Step 3.
• 5:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Reengage with life.
• 5:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even if you still feel like you're surviving.
• 5:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Once you stop running away from how you're feeling, the next step is to reenter the parts of your life.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: especially the parts you've been avoiding.
• 5:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Each time you take a step back into life, even with this sensation still flickering in the background, you're retraining your brain to see that normal life and bodily sensations can coexist.
• 5:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: That feeling in your chest, that wave of adrenaline doesn't mean stop.
• 5:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: It just means keep going, just go a little gently, start small, take that
• 5:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Go for the walk even if your heart races a little.
• 5:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Meet that friend for a coffee even if your thoughts are loud.
• 5:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Travel again one step out of time.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: The goal isn't to prove your symptoms are gone.
• 6:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's to prove that they no longer control you.
• 6:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because every time you move towards life and set of away from it, you're showing your brain that we can feel this and still live.
• 6:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's how sensations lose their meaning.
• 6:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not because they vanish overnight, but because you stop giving them authority over your choices.
• 6:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Over time, your world expands again, the activities, places, and people that once triggered fears start to feel neutral, and that's when your nervous system truly begins to reset.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: When living itself becomes the signal of safety, step four, reinforce the new normal.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: As you begin living again, something subtle starts to happen.
• 6:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Your nervous system starts feeling more safe, even with symptoms.
• 6:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is because it's watching how you're responding, and seeing that you can feel sensations and still feel safe.
• 6:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: This trust needs repetition.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to feel this by doing this once.
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Many people think it's built on some big breakthroughs, but really it's just built on small consistent moments where you choose to respond again and again, healing from a nervous system that's stuck in survival isn't linear.
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: There will be days where you will feel calm and days where your body echoes those old patterns.
• 7:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: The key is what you do next.
• 7:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you spiral back into fear?
• 7:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Or do you remind your body we've been here before and we know what to do?
• 7:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: This step is more about embodiment.
• 7:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can intellectually understand what I'm talking about in these videos, but still not really respond and safety.
• 7:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: As you experientially see that as you allow yourself to feel this way,
• 7:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: You feel the emotions, you feel the sensations without resistance, you'd begin to grow your own confidence.
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Over time, that confidence becomes a part of you, now it's embodied.
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just who you are.
• 7:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Over time, the peaks get softer, the waves pass faster, and the peace starts to feel natural again.
• 8:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: And one day, you'll notice something extraordinary, you're no longer recovering.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: you're living.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: You see, this isn't about managing anxiety or learning a few coping tools.
• 8:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's about retraining your body to live again.
• 8:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: When your nervous system learns safety, your entire life changes.
• 8:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not just your symptoms.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: You begin to trust yourself again.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: You start saying yes to things that you used to avoid.
• 8:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: You stop organizing your life around fear and start living from freedom.
• 8:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: When your nervous system escapes the survival mode, the people around you will feel it as well.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: We find as people heal, their families feel it, their children feel it, their communities feel it.
• 8:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is a quiet revolution that's happening, and it's happening one nervous system at a time.
• 8:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: People realizing that they were never broken.
• 8:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: People remembering that healing in many ways is very mechanical.
• 8:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's follows a certain set of principles.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's the body just learning safety again.
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine a world where millions of people are no longer making mistakes of combining symptoms for illness.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: But instead, understanding how their body works and how their body has been protecting them from these perceived dangers.
• 9:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the world we're building.
• 9:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: A world we're healing is expected, not rare, where safety, not fear, becomes the new normal.
• 9:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: right now.