 Hello, everyone. Welcome to depression to expression. My name is Scott and I'd like to talk to you about three reasons that you may be experiencing more anxiety than you'd like Maybe on a daily basis Maybe on an hour-to-hour basis. Maybe you're dealing with panic attacks and they just come out of the blue and You're having trouble even connecting. What's causing these panic attacks? You're avoiding coffee, right? You're hanging around the right people. Works going well What can be the cause of these things? Is there actually a correlation? Well, I want to talk about three things today that may be causing Anxiety in your life. Now, of course, normal anxiety as if you're Presenting something in front of work or in front of class, right? If you're meeting someone new if you're going on a first date Second date third date. Well, this is normal anxiety. It's good. It's good. It means you care It means you're a human being but as we know Anxiety that is constant and seemingly comes up for no reason Can be annoying and debilitating at the same time I'm not gonna answer that phone call. So before we get started. I just like to play a little bit of flute Made of walnut from high-spirit flutes in the key of a just to get us in a relaxing mood So then we can maybe have an open mind and think about these things on a deeper level as I go through them And if you're looking for a quick fix if you're looking for a short short video Well, you're a little too late vine went out of business and I guess tick-tock is shorter videos So you can look for anxiety tips there, but what I like to do on YouTube is take my time Process thoughts and relax a little bit because we do have time We do have time our minds trick us to think we don't have it, but we do and let's just take a deep breath together inhale and exhale You know, there's three things that may be causing anxiety for and I just want to Talk about them briefly and then maybe you can meditate on them Maybe you can think about them and think about hey, how can I incorporate this into my life? Or how can I avoid more of this as time moves on and these are just ideas and come from my own experience in my own reading Okay, so the first one is loneliness. You may be experiencing anxiety because you're lonely And you think well people make me anxious I have to remove myself from people in order to calm the anxiety or you may say hey, I have a bunch of friends So that's not it But for those of you who may not have friends or those of you who have friends Maybe you don't have any meaningful connection And it took me a while to get friends where I actually could connect with on a very deep level You know loneliness isn't just having physical people around you Or not having physical people around you I should say loneliness is that feeling where you can't connect with someone else that you're you're sharing something and They're not really excited that you're sharing something. They're not very involved in your life So I'd ask you the question Do you have someone that you can call or invite over or talk to when something good happens to you and then they get excited for you? What about when something bad happens? Can you call someone and they can empathize and be there for you? And if we take the reverse of that the reciprocal when something good happens to them Are you genuinely excited for them because you deeply care? Now if the answer is yes, that's great if the answer is no Well, of course we can do something about that But the science behind anxiety and loneliness is really interesting because as technology changes our Biology stays the same Everything around us changes look we have a camera. I have a TV right there a nice couch from Sears for 499 99 but biology stays the same When we were in the Plains of Africa our ancestors needed tribes to survive, right? That's the only way we could survive is being together people would be there for security and safety others would hunt Other would raise the kids if you were alone If you were alone you were on constant alert For animals and other tribes trying to kill you They've done experiments here too where if you're a lonely individual you experience What's called micro awakenings where you wake up in the middle of the night multiple times? Why biology stays the same if you were sleeping alone in the Plains of Africa You would wake up constantly to see if you're secure and if you're safe Anxious people also a far faster reaction times They've done experiments They show people a threat and they're hooked up to all these fMRI machines and have all these probes on their mind Very anxious people or sorry very lonely people Respond in a hundred and fifty milliseconds to a threat people with great Relationships friendships and have that sense of security react in 300 milliseconds Really interesting, right? Because we're on constant alert when we feel alone that we don't have that security and Safety because if you know you're safe, you know, you can fall asleep easily You know someone has your back if you're alone You're responsible The threats coming for you and no one's there to stop it So the one thing that may be causing anxiety for you is being lonely and not having that meaningful connection now a shameless plug here is Is we have a discord group in a discord chat if ever you want to join and Meet some people all over the world and and have that meaningful connection. It's great in person I've actually met people they've come in person To meet me in Toronto, which is so so cool Meaningful connection is really important when dealing with anxiety and opening up and sharing that and having someone to have your back Now the second thing is that may be causing anxiety and this is very very true for me is our removal from the natural world Like I'm surrounded by concrete here it's weird You walk I walk downtown and and everything's in squares and everything's concrete and there's so so many people everywhere and It seems so artificial which it it is Have you ever walked through the forest and just found that you connected and felt better? That fresh air The beautiful leaves on the trees the dirt between your fingers See technology changes, but biology stays the same You know, they actually have psychologists and psychiatrists that that through therapy sessions They actually take their patients and they walk through the forest while they talk This is a kind of therapy people are calling it forest bathing now So it may be causing you anxiety is Removal from the forest You haven't been in nature long enough Go to a park Go to maybe where no people are for a little while Get back into that feeling in that relationship that deep innate feeling that we have with nature and plants And trees and leaves and soil and roots Connect with it hug a tree touch some bark It's something that I do every time I feel anxious. I need to get out And I realize that I haven't seen enough green in a while It's very very important to me So that's number two and number three it really connects with both of those things Is that we're removed from nature? We're losing that meaningful connection and what we're doing to Establish connection And this keeps us further removed from nature This rectangle that we have It's a rectangle Give it 20 years. We're going to seem we're going to look back at these and think wow that was some old technology It's a rectangle. We needed to carry in our pockets. It's all going to be augmented reality soon But it's really interesting That social media use and us using our devices study after study after study Especially with children Look up gene twengie I'll put the links below gene twenge keith cambell jonathan height These people have spent their life When social media came out to see if there's correlation and causation between anxiety and social media use and there is It's a j curve more social media use more anxiety and why does this happen? Well, let's be honest guys. Come on Let's be honest. It doesn't feel good when I go through my instagram feed and I see people who Maybe have what I've always wanted and they have it already They seemingly have a perfect life and Not only can that cause depression, but anxiety as well because as I said in the beginning we feel like we have no time We feel like they're maybe younger than us the same age, but they have way more. I'm running out of time I'm not using time wisely And have you ever been been really anxious and thought that I have so much to do and so little time And the world just collapses on you and you feel that pressure from the world to be something more That's what happens with social media for me and I don't know about you, but it definitely does especially youtube Right So we need more meaningful connection with individuals We need more time off of our screens and in nature And less time on social media social media can definitely be the cause Of anxiety because you're not only focusing on what you have in real life, but with social media You're focusing on what you don't have And you never feel like you're enough and when you don't feel like you're enough you feel like you're running out of time We need to be able to breathe and sit back and and enjoy the moment with people in nature away from screens Now I hope these three causes may have been helpful to you to make you just think a little more About what we're doing on a daily basis because it doesn't it doesn't happen right away This this stuff has been adding up year after year after year Or you're you're watching netflix a little more You're using your phone a little bit more You're busy at work and busy in the city So you're not going and taking that time to to exercise and go for a nice hike with people This is what's happening more and more and more and I think I'd invite you to just stop Just take the time for a second stop and think about these things What is happening? What are your priorities? What are you focusing on? What are you missing? these three things more nature time more meaningful connection And less device time Have decreased anxiety for me tremendously Unbelievable the changes that I've seen in my life And I hope that works for you if you want to join our online community on the discord group all the links are below It's instagram facebook everything you need Um, and I'd love to hear from you in the comments and hopefully see you on the online community Stay strong everyone keep being you Don't forget to express yourself Bye. Bye