Anxiety is just another word for fear, which is the energy behind the flight side of the Sympathetic survival response. When working with this energy just staying present and feeling it may be ok if you are able to do that while not fearing the sensations of fear. This can be difficult to do without shutting down or getting overstimulated though, so being proactive and mobilizing the body in some way is usually recommended. This is often the most effective at actually transforming the energy and renegotiating the trauma.

Even if you are tired and its the middle of the night, which is often when fear and panic surface for many, this can still be a good practice sometimes, if you’re not sleeping anyway. You could try just sitting up and expressing a bit, or you could get up and mobilize in other ways. I talk about this in this Q&A Call at 37:56. Have a listen (password is ‘REWIRE’).

You could also try some of the containment practices from Lab 6 and see how that kind of intervention feels. If you are a new member and we haven’t gotten to Lab 6 yet, there is an example of one containment practice on YT here – https://youtu.be/0ICsbXUCKmM?si=UekVzT-w8aPd42Sw.