Today’s episode is my last for 7 days as I am having a 1-week break, my first in years. I speak about how you can apply my system for dealing with anxiety in your life over the next week to improve the way you react to something that makes you anxious. I use multiple examples of ways I’ve applied the system and we also make one up. Enjoy the next week and see you again soon

The Downtime

Today I break down a quote by famous trauma psychiatrist Dr Bessell van der Kolk about recovering from anxiety. I look at how I’ve applied it to my life to deal with the big situations that used to make me anxious and how that’s fed through to other aspects of my life. If you have performance anxiety then I think you’ll enjoy today’s episode. We finish with a humming activity that you can use anytime to get out of your head and back into the body

The Deep Experiences

Do you try to make yourself happy through individualistic or selfish means? Does it not work? Well today I speak about micro v macro happiness and what I learnt from a men’s circle group that I attended recently! I speak about how we can make ourselves happy by focusing on others more so than ourselves. I have a study from Harvard University that backs this up. As always we finish with an activity that you can use to calm yourself throughout the day

The Group

Today we speak more about what we’re trying to achieve by reprogramming our reaction to situations. If you get anxious before performances then today’s episodes speaks about how to recondition yourself for that using the method I use. I share a question I had last night at a talk I did to a sports club and then we finish with a face scan activity that’s great to do before bed at night

The Goal

Do you think it would be worth sacrificing your life to strive for a gold medal? Would you miss catch-ups with family and friends to train everyday for 4 years? With the Olympics on tv at the moment it’s a great time to question whether the sacrifices we make in life to achieve greatness is worth it or not? We breakdown a great quote from Adam Smith from the 1700’s which perfectly sums up the answer to this question! We finish with a humming activity that you can do throughout the day to calm anxiety

The Greatness

Have you found that no matter how hard you try to stop those anxious thoughts they just keep on coming? Yep, I know what that’s like. Today we look at the whole system we need to work at fixing as I talk about the game I play where by wanting and accepting my anxiety today, it fixes it for tomorrow. We look at the subconscious mind, body and conscious minds role in the anxiety cycle and how it’s all about changing our conditioning. We finish with a quick 4-7-8 breathing activity

The Game

Today I speak about how I stoped myself from getting anxious speaking to a group of 13 psychologists yesterday. If you get anxious you can apply this process to any situation in your life. I also provide some context for a statement I made yesterday about the world we live in being full of greedy people. I explain how corporate greed is impacting our mental health. We finish with a quick breathing activity

The Greed

Today I talk about a situation that has been causing me stress in my life and how I’ve used what I’ve learnt in the past to make a decision - to take a back step to take pressure off. If you have a situation in your life that you can’t seem to work through then maybe hearing how I justify taking a back step will help you. We finish with a humming activity and discuss how it can be used in social settings when we’re anxious to calm down

The Back Step

Today I take you back to when my anxiety really started to hit 5th gear in my final year of high school in 2004. We walk through the first few symptoms that I experienced. If you find that you’re starting to withdraw socially and wanting to be alone then this might resonate with you. We talk about dry July as it’s coming to an end and we really sink our teeth into a breathing activity that we can do to calm ourselves down

The Beginning

Today we breakdown last night’s 6th talk on anxiety, we look at the new content that we spoke about including our RTC method for beating anxiety over time. If you get anxiety from public speaking or social anxiety then this method is really good for learning to take a long term view with it and slowly work on beating it over time. We look at the questions that were asked from the audience and we finish with a humming activity that is so relaxing I nearly fall asleep

The Breakdown

Due to starting full-time work again, this podcast is on hold while I work out my time commitments Mitch Morton is my name. I’m a former pro athlete, from down under in Australia, and I’m the founder of the Mr Anxiety project. I started this project so I could show people how I beat the crippling anxiety that ran my life for 15 years. In this daily 15-minute podcast, I'm going to give you tips for controlling anxiety, I'll tell stories about what anxiety did to my life and I'll also share how I’m rebuilding my life after bouncing back from rock bottom in 2018 Insta:@mranxiety_aus

In today’s podcast I speak about why I don’t plan on ever studying a bachelor of psychology degree as I get asked quite often whether I will. We go through how we can apply what we’re learning to a real life situation today and then we can do a follow up tomorrow to see how it went. I talk through how I take a long term view with fixing my anxiety and then we finish with a 4-7-8 breathing activity which is a great quick activity that can calm you down!

The Bachelors

If you’re recovering from a mental health issue and finding it’s two steps forward and one step backwards then you might enjoy this story. I speak about the bench on the side of the road in the Perth CBD where I would sit in 2019 when I had panic attacks. There was one day in particular that stands out as my attack was really severe that day. I also answer a question about where my favourite place to live has been and then we finish with a neck stretch which is something that you can use at work if you’re anxious

The Bench

Do you suffer from social anxiety? I used to as well. Trains, buses, shopping centres, they used to cause me so much anxiety. Lately I’ve been doing some filming for a webinar promo video in the arcades around Perth City and today I talk through the process I have used to feel comfortable in those situations. It’s a very simple process of reprogramming how we automatically react to things and I use it all the time. We finish with a quick body scan activity

The Arcade

Warning: Audio issues on this podcast! I wasn’t going to share this but 93% of my Instagram followers said that I should (I ran a poll). Other than the slight intermittent static sound overlaying the audio I really enjoyed this podcast! I talk about how I’ve started to notice all of the ways my life has improved from 2.5 years ago and this culminated in playing a full game of country football on the weekend. It was a local derby which happens to be the two towns I grew up in so it was very special to me to play. It also happened to be the oval that I first experience anxiety at in 1994. Returning for the first time, without chronic anxiety, was surreal for me! It’s a long way from the MCG or SCG where I used to play but it doesn’t matter - I felt amazing and had more energy than I’ve had on a football oval since 2002. The methods that I’ve put into practice to fix my anxiety are really paying dividends now and I’m starting to really feel like I’m back to my old self. We finish with a stomach breathing activity

The Audio Issues

Today we go back to right where our anxiety starts, in the subconscious mind, and talk through how we can reprogram our reaction to situations so that we don’t get anxiety. I use the real world example of me going from not being able to publicly speak to being told 2 days ago that I’m professional enough at it to charge a substantial sum as a speaking fee. It was a huge moment in my life as a have truly now conquered one of my greatest fears. We finish with a breathing activity that you can do to calm down

The Automation

Today I talk through an analogy that I use to explain what anxiety feels like for people that may not have an understanding of it. This is a handy analogy to know if you don’t have issues with anxiety as it may allow you to better support people that have it. We look at afferent v efferent data which is sent through our nervous system and how we can optimise this to calm ourselves down. I then answer a couple more questions including one about what moment was the turning point with my anxiety. We finish with a body scan

The Analogy

Why does where we pay attention determine how we react in situations? It’s all to do with the way our subconscious and conscious minds communicate. We look at how to use this to reprogram our reactions, building on yesterday’s talk and then I finally get to answering questions. We talk about the present moment being experienced through feelings and sensations and then we finish with a quick activity to get us out of our heads

The Answers

How do we change the filter that we view life through? How we do use it to change the way that we naturally react to situations so that we can have more control? Today we look at how important where we place our attention is in controlling anxiety and our reactions in life. I use a couple of very practical real world examples to show you how I have reprogrammed the way that I react to situations and it has helped with my anxiety. We finish we a great activity where we simply sit still and bring our awareness into the present moment

The Manipulation

Today we look at all the memories we’ve created in our lives and how we automatically use those memories to create a filter, otherwise known as our attitude, which we see the world through. I talk about the neuroscience of feelings and sensations and how we experience things and then we finish the episode with a face scan activity which is a good activity to do before bed each night

The Memories

The greatest misconception in life is that we will be happy when we get ‘……..’. Today I mix the lessons learned from Harvard Universities 80-year study on what makes us happy with Adam Smith’s famous ‘The Source’ quote. I want to make you think about how you’re living your life and whether your focus is on the right things. We finish with a breathing activity that we can use to stay calm throughout the day

The Misconception

Due to starting full-time work again, this podcast is on hold while I work out my time commitments Mitch Morton is my name. I’m a former pro athlete, from down under in Australia, and I’m the founder of the Mr Anxiety project. I started this project so I could show people how I beat the crippling anxiety that ran my life for 15 years. In this daily 15-minute podcast, I'm going to give you tips for controlling anxiety, I'll tell stories about what anxiety did to my life and I'll also share how I’m rebuilding my life after bouncing back from rock bottom in 2018 Insta:@mranxiety_aus

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