Name: How To Trick Your Brain To Turn Off Anxiety
Uploaded: 2025-11-25T21:01:10.000Z
Duration: 6 min 36 s
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For years, I was scared my anxiety was permanent.

Like something in my brain was actually broken.

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I would wish that I had an off switch that I could instantly shut off for my anxiety.

But it's not in a breathing exercise, positive thinking, or even medication.

Once I was able to stop feeding the false alarms, I was able to turn off my anxiety and never look back.

Step 1. Don't think your way out. Show your brain.

You can't think your way out of a fight or flight response.

Because the part of your brain that handles logic isn't the one that's freaking out.

Specifically the amygdala, the alarm center that scans danger 24/7.

When it senses threats, real or imagined, it hijacks the system.

You'll experience heart racing, muscle tightening, shortness of breath.

It's not asking for your opinion, it's preparing you to run.

Meanwhile, the newest part of our brain, which is called the prefrontal cortex,

the rational part that handles logic and reasoning, that goes partially offline when you're anxious.

That's why no amount of positive thinking, reassurance or logic works in that moment.

Because you're trying to use words to calm a part of your brain that doesn't speak a language.

So the only way to trick your brain out of anxiety is to show that there's no danger.

Stay present through the alarm long enough to see.

I can be in this uncomfortable situation and still be okay.

That's when the thinking brain slowly comes back online and the survival brain finally powers down.

And it's in that moment that you begin to realize that maybe you're not broken after all.

Maybe your brain was just trying to protect you too hard.

But underneath all that chaos, your body isn't malfunctioning.

Step 2. Expect the "Yeah, but next time..." voice.

When you go into a situation that's anxiety-provoking and show yourself that everything is okay,

your brain will naturally say, "Okay, this time it was fine, but what if next time it isn't?"

What if the dizziness hits you while you're driving and you can't pull over?

What if you wake up tomorrow and it's all back, worse than before?

This is just your brain running old software.

Your nervous system is still using an outdated prediction model that says,

"Last time this felt scary, so let's assume it's dangerous again."

You don't fix outdated software by arguing with it.

You update it by running a new program over and over.

By showing your brain through experience that the old patterns no longer apply.

Every time you stay present and nothing bad happens, the system quietly rewires itself.

one day, the brain just stops sending that alert because it's finally caught up to the reality.

And when that "Yeah, but next time..." voice appears, don't fight it, don't feed it, just run a new code again.

"Great. Thanks anxiety. We'll see. But I'll continue anyway."

And that's how confidence slowly replaces control.

You stop proving safety and start embodying it.

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After a few wins, you you'll want to monitor and say, "Okay, am I better yet? Is this anxiety gone?"

Especially because anxiety is so uncomfortable.

But you've been living on alert for so long that calm can often feel suspicious.

So when you feel good, allow yourself to feel good.

Let it feel ordinary. Let it feel boring.

You might even feel like feeling good is something that you're not used to feeling.

The moment you stop searching for proof that this is working, your brain realizes it no longer needs to protect.

Use the line, "I don't need confirmation. I'm busy living life."

Because recovery isn't when you feel calm all the time.

In fact, before you fell in the cycle, you had moments where you were activated.

when you're anxious, when you're in the cycle, you're always chasing calm.

But it's when calm stops being something you have to chase.

Your brain wants a hundred percent guarantees.

It believes that in order to feel safe, you need to be a hundred percent certain.

You can be confident in different situations, but

core confidence means no matter what situation you're in,

you have a certain level of confidence that no matter what happens, you'll be okay.

"Maybe it comes back, maybe it doesn't. Either way, I can handle it."

Because that's what actually rewires the nervous system.

Not eliminating risk, but proving capability.

That's how you stop living in defense and start living again.

Your brain has been micromanaging your safety and feelings of comfort for so long that it's forgotten what trust feels like.

When you stop supervising every heartbeat or every thought, that's when the system finally powers down.

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How To Trick Your Brain To Turn Off Anxiety

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