What Anxiety Actually Is | Still the Storm Mindfulness Course

Anxiety is not a malfunction. It is one of the oldest survival mechanisms your nervous system has, and understanding what it actually is begins to change your relationship with it.

In this opening lesson of Still the Storm, learn how the amygdala scans for threats and fires the fight, flight, or freeze response, and why it cannot tell the difference between a real danger and an anxious thought. You'll also learn how the anxiety loop forms, when the body's own alarm signals become frightening in themselves and keep the cycle going.