Natural Anxiety Relief
Cortisol and Anxiety Disorder: Finding Natural Relief Through the Body
The mind often lives in a future that hasn't happened, fueled by a past that hasn't been resolved.
When we clear the emotional weight of our history, we stop bracing for a storm that isn't ahead of us - allowing us to finally inhabit the calm of the present moment.
"My health anxiety is non existent now.. saying thank you doesn't feel like enough to be honest it really has been life changing"
Nicola Sabin
The Origin of Anxiety:
Dark Clouds and the Blue Sky
Life seems to bring varying degrees of stress, fear and trauma to everyone at some point.
While there is no real way to avoid these experiences, our bodies have a profound way of helping us survive them.
The mind stores these traumas in the body as a way to help us cope in the moment. However, if these heavy feelings are not processed, they remain trapped, fueling a persistent state of anxiety in the present.
This accumulation of unresolved distress forms the "dark clouds" that obscure your natural inner calm. Until we find an effective way to process and release them, the body stays on constant alert.
The Loop of Distress:
Like when real clouds form, they block the expansive, peaceful feeling of an otherwise clear blue sky and obscure the light and warmth of the sun.
Physical Disconnection: Our bodies feel the heaviness of the clouds; we feel the cold and darkness in their shadow.
Mental Escalation: Our minds race to give meaning to-and distract us from-this inner sense of distress the body is feeling.
The Survival Cycle: This creates a loop where thoughts fuel more cortisol, and cortisol fuels more thoughts. This is how anxiety grows.
Anxiety Starts in the Body, Not the Brain
After years of trying multiple therapies for his debilitating anxiety without success, Dr Russell Kennedy had an epiphany:
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'Anxiety does not start in the brain.​
Anxiety starts in the body, where painful
physical and emotional memories live.​
​​Alarm bells ring here, triggering the mind to
create the thoughts that we call ‘anxiety’.'
'The mind is where the soul goes to hide from uncomfortable feelings..'
- Dr. Russell Kennedy (MD), clinical neuroscientist, certified yoga & meditation teacher, author of 'The Anxiety Prescription'
Dissolving the Clouds: How Somatic Work Restores Calm
As a holistic EFT tapping therapist, I help you dissolve these dark clouds of stored trauma. These are the heavy feelings that keep your nervous system on high alert. To break the cycle of cortisol and anxiety disorder, we must communicate with the brain in a language it understands: physical signals of safety.
When the trauma is soothed, the "vast peaceful emptiness" of the blue sky becomes apparent again, and you become able to feel the warmth of the sun once more.
The Biological Shift:
EFT shows how you can stimulate specific points on your skin that will send electrochemical signals directly to your brain. If at the same time you hold in your mind a situation that triggers an unwanted emotional response, you can actually shift your brain's response to that situation.​​​
It is an unconventional approach, yet it frequently produces undeniable improvement in only one session and often works where other approaches do not.'
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David Feinstein, Ph.d, clinical psychologist (The healing power of EFT and energy Psychology)​
The Science of Safety:
Deactivating the Stress Response
You don’t have to rely on "positive thinking" to change how you feel. EFT works because it soothes the biological root of distress: the amygdala and the body’s cortisol production.
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By sending physical signals of safety directly to the brain, we can interrupt the loop of cortisol and anxiety disorder symptoms at a cellular level. This isn't just a theory; it is backed by a growing body of gold-standard clinical research.
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View the Clinical Research & Study Results
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