Dr. Jenny Taitz

No, and if you could dial up the positivity or the gratitude or the opportunity to savor even.

I'm thinking of like, I'm about to walk into a room with people that are kids the same age.

It's rare as an adult to be able to meet so many people that live in the same area that are going through a similar stage of life.

This is an opportunity to maybe connect with some people that are in a shared experience and a shared loop.

like geographical area.

But if we could think about it in a way that's useful and adaptive, and then I think automatically, like just doing that would change your body's stress response, would change like the, the kind of social anxiety, like in your body and like tension and maybe shortness of breath.

But if not, even just if you are feeling like that stress,

um in your body despite thinking more neutrally or effectively about the situation or positively about the situation you could still like this is okay this is normal i care you know sometimes sometimes going into a social situation i similarly like experience like oh my gosh like my heart is going faster yeah i haven't seen some of these people in ages and i i want to make a good impression and this belongs i mean it's interesting like you know for someone running the marathon it's like there's some expectation of pain to be expected

And acceptance of that and celebrating that is part of the process and part of the feat of like mind over matter.

And I think we need to kind of bring some of that like it makes total sense if you're if your body's doing something, how can you normalize the normal and not make the normal into pathological in a way that just creates this tornado of like your body and mind feeling like they're waging war against you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's one of the things, there's a specific set of skills called TIP, temperature, intense exercise, pace breathing, and progressive muscle relaxation.

If you are feeling totally overwhelmed and you need to do something different with your body, intense exercise, and that doesn't mean going to a gym class that could literally be doing jumping jacks or burpees.

And if you could attribute that, it makes total sense that my heart is doing this because I'm

Vigorously exercising and then that also like quiets your mind.

You can't be like thinking your worst case scenario thoughts while you're doing a squat jump that automatically like creates a different attribution and changes your body chemistry.

Exactly.

So that is part of the tip skill.

So again, the T is temperature.