21 Tips to Beat Anxiety with Dr. Dawn Elise Snipes

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[edwarddorville]

1st 0:43 Learn the difference between emotional and factual reasoning.

2nd 1:53 Learn to differentiate what's actually happening from what you're currently thinking about.

3rd 3:39 Prove yourself wrong. Show yourself that your thoughts have no basis in truth. Go to the doctor and confirm that you aren't dying of some incurable disease. Ask someone how they feel about you if you don't know. Do not live in the grey area when answers are available.

4th 4:28 Stop trying to navigate the path while the hallway is dark. Do not make decisions when you're upset.

5th 5:44 Unhook from your emotions. Instead of saying "I am.... say "I am having the thought that I am..."

6th 6:34 Fire can burn your house down, or it can cook you dinner each night and keep you warm in the winter. Your mind is the same way. Will you let it burn you out and cause you to feel helpless and hopeless, or turn you into MacGyver?

7th 7:54 Realize that thoughts can be merely illusions. Think about all the
things you've thought and worried about that have turned out not to
be real. Think of all the time you wasted preparing for outcomes
that would never happen. In the future when you start to worry, ask
yourself if what you are worried about is factual and probable.

8th 10:02 Follow it to the end. Think about whatever you are worried about.
Then imagine, realistically, what will happen and follow it out to its
conclusion. If you stick with fact-based, probable scenarios, you will
often find that the outcome is not that scary.

9th 12:21 Remember that the average person has over 50, 000 thoughts each
and every day. Some are happy some sad, some fearful and some
scary. If you were asked how many of your 50, 000 thoughts you
remembered today it would likely be less than 100.

10th 13:58 Ride the wave. Feelings come, peak within about 20 minutes and
subside unless you "feed them.

11th 16:00 Don't swat the bee.

12th 17:19 Embrace the dialectics. That is, try to figure out how two
seemingly contradictory things can both be true. (This
relationship can end, and I can be okay. I could lose my job
but still have my family)

13th 18:24 Look for opportunity in the angst. Worry tells you that
something MIGHT need to change. Opportunities make up the
majority of the iceberg that is the reality you don't yet know
and can't yet see. Dive in!

14th 20:01 Change your objective. The goal is not to feel "good" all the
time, it's to be able to express a healthy range of emotion
without suppressing or suffering. Remember Yin and Yang.
There is a little bit of Yang in Yin and a little bit of Yin in Yang.

15th 22:21 Develop hardiness.

16th 24:19 Irrational thoughts are sometimes products of traumas you've yet to fully
acknowledge or deal with.

17th 26:08 Accept the fact that everyone, everywhere, has weird, incorrect, disturbing
thoughts that have no bearing on reality. You are not a freak. You are
(probably) not sick. You just have to learn to not be intimidated by your own
mind.

18th 27:14 Stop gauging how bad things are by how much you panic. The more you
panic, the more you will panic.

19th Identify your comfort zones, and step back into them now and again. Moving
past the place that you're used to is a gradual process - going too quickly is
a recipe for a stress

20th 29:27 Practice healthy discomfort. Learn to lean into your stress, not resist it.
Accept you feel how you feel and remember that it is unpleasant, but you
can tolerate it.

21th 30:14 Practice radical acceptance. Learn to acknowledge the parts of your story
you'd rather ignore, forget or not admit. Choose to love your home, and
your body, and your work, even if you don't like it all the time. Choose to
build your life from a place of gratitude and vision, rather than running from
your own fears.

[kimberbites]

Reframing. I like that suggestion. Not "I am, " but "I have the thought of." Because whatever we place after, "I am, " we just end up becoming.

[salema]

I really want to take the time out to say thank you for this video. It's helping me 🌈

[laura]

Thank you very much for your help and may I say, you are looking good, Dr. Snipes!

[dee]

Great information thank you Doc Snipes 🙌🏻☀️

[soyamork]

Dr. You are amazing I love your videos

[irvinghaber]

Thank you for such an informative piece I plan to go over this with my staff and use this as a tool with my patients for dependency disorders and for anxiety. I am definitely buying your book!

[cowoverthemoo]

Depression... livin in the past.
Anxiety... worried about the future.
Depressed cause i couldn't fix the past anxious cause everything I see is broken.

[ashoksingh]

Madam, your lecture is very helpful overcoming anxiety

[shlomifnunu]

this remind me my OCD in years of talking to myself when im alone for find the answers of questions that i dont know when i feel anxitey and confused, after years i did relaize this such pointless actually i do it way less nowdays cause in life by what i saw from my friends or other people that We cant know always we dont have answers to everything so... thank you this useful video :)

[ryarya]

hello, I can't find the book. I found the one about depression. Can you help?

[mitchnidey]

I'm glad I invested in you. You see that I can afford subway, but not the most popular steakhouses. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. God bless you. I'm just joking by the way. :) I appreciate your teachings.

[lindahebb]

Tomorrow I’m starting therapy I have aniexty because it’s a phone session and I don’t live alone. Do I go in my car to have some privacy? Or just do the appointment in my bedroom. The things I over think about lol

[lindahebb]

This could be a fun month long project. Try one tip a day for a month.

[NormanChester]

Doctor are you spiritual or religious? sorry if too personal, I'm looking for info on spiritual anxiety, thank you

[jadajohnson]

I just be stressed out about my exs realtionship i was in the past years... I have anxiety n depression

[Augfordpdoggie]

I posted in another video. I have 2 long term cptsd case...longer than 15 years each. I am always on edge....stressed an emotionally overeactive. Would you be interested in studying my brain?