Sleep Lady- Step 2: Relabel what the sensations mean 5:105 minutes, 10 secondsOnce you've named what's happening, the next step is to relabel the meaning, to remove the catastrophic interpretation to it. 5:185 minutes, 18 secondsSo instead of, "My body is anxious. This is terrible. 5:225 minutes, 22 secondsI need to fix this, and I may just need to make this go away right now," you would say, "My survival brain is running an old pattern. 5:295 minutes, 29 secondsIt thinks there's something to be alert for, but I know there isn't." Or, you know, you could just simply say, "This is just my nervous system activating. 5:385 minutes, 38 secondsIt's not dangerous. 5:405 minutes, 40 secondsThere's nothing that needs to be fixed." So notice that nothing about your body has changed. 5:465 minutes, 46 secondsYour heart is still beating fast, your chest might still feel tight, your mind might still be racing. The sensations themselves haven't changed. Chapter 8: How anxious stories create a sense of danger 5:535 minutes, 53 secondsThe only thing that's changing is the story that you're attaching to them. Because your survival brain has learned to interpret them as danger. 6:026 minutes, 2 secondsBut they're not, right? What if they're just sensations? Think about it. A racing heart could mean fear, or it could mean excitement. 6:126 minutes, 12 secondsButterflies in your stomach could mean panic, or they could mean that you're about to do something meaningful. The sensations themselves aren't the problem. 6:206 minutes, 20 secondsIt's the story that your brain automatically attaches to them. 6:236 minutes, 23 secondsSo instead of immediately going to, "This is terrible, something is very wrong," instead try saying, "This is just a false alarm. 6:316 minutes, 31 secondsI don't need to believe every story that my survival brain is telling me." Every time you choose a new interpretation instead of the old catastrophic one, 6:396 minutes, 39 secondsyou're giving your brain new evidence that this situation isn't actually dangerous. And this exact thing happens at night too. You know, you'll say things like, "Oh, no, I'm still awake.
https://youtu.be/cMBxNSaselA?is=uZfJlVDkqoyi3_bF Step 2: Relabel what the sensations mean 5:10 5 minutes, 10 seconds Once you've named what's happening, the next step is to relabel the meaning, to remove the catastrophic interpretation to it. 5:18 5 minutes, 18 seconds So instead of, "My body is anxious. This is terrible. 5:22 5 minutes, 22 seconds I need to fix this, and I may just need to make this go away right now," you would say, "My survival brain is running an old pattern. 5:29 5 minutes, 29 seconds It thinks there's something to be alert for, but I know there isn't." Or, you know, you could just simply say, "This is just my nervous system activating. 5:38 5 minutes, 38 seconds It's not dangerous. 5:40 5 minutes, 40 seconds There's nothing that needs to be fixed." So notice that nothing about your body has changed. 5:46 5 minutes, 46 seconds Your heart is still beating fast, your chest might still feel tight, your mind mi...