Coach Zahabi on fear and anxiety

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• AM

  @AmirA-nl9uu · 4 years ago

  I wish I had a trainer like you when I was 15 …

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• MO

  @mohammed96011 · 4 years ago (edited)

  All you have to do is tune into the fear/anxiety and it will subside.<br>If you resist, it persists

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• GZ

  @GZTakosh · 4 years ago

  I have been so nervous before a fight, walking in the cage etc so many times but he&apos;s right I&apos;m never nervous for the second round

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• TH

  @therooffairy5979 · 3 years ago

  I was a vocalist...performed hundreds of times sometimes to massive crowds...I loved the feeling on the day...my body and mind would store all my power.<br>I would feel like I was getting sick...feel sleepy...disconnected and introverted.<br>As soon as I grabbed the mic it would all come back like the most intense power surge.<br>The longer we played the more intense and fluid i got.<br>I miss that shit.

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• MO

  @moonboy5851 · 3 years ago

  This is genius. As someone that experiences extreme anxiety this is so so helpful.

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• J_

  @J_SouI · 4 years ago

  True confidence comes from making your peace, win or lose, knowing that you&apos;re a part of something greater than yourself. Being prepared mentally physically spiritually and emotionally is also essential. There&apos;s no guarantee of the outcome, but having those 5 things on point is satisfaction guaranteed.

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• JA

  @jayjitsu1986 · 3 years ago

  Only 39k views? Oh yeah. Not everyone faces their fears and seeks a challenge! <br><br>Thank you for this video 🙏🏼

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• AL

  @Almosteasyese · 3 years ago

  Your autonomic nervous system has two branches. Sympathetic ( fight or flight) and parasympathetic. Your parasympathetic can calm you down ( rest and digest, ventral vagal) or shut you down ( dorsal vagal freeze). Fun fact: liver shots activate your dorsal vagal response &nbsp;because that&apos;s all through your vagus nerve. <br><br>The high of energy you described is the sympathetic, &nbsp;fight or flight. <br><br>The lethargy can be rest/ digest kicking in, &nbsp;or bordering on freeze. <br>Ventral vagal can feel lazy by in a relaxed way. <br><br><br>Freeze seems to happen when fight or flight is too intense OR when fight or flight doesn&apos;t work. Dissociation is an extreme example. <br><br>What I&apos;m working through is my freeze response and I actually will dissociate mildly if things get rough enough. &nbsp;I might still be moving, &nbsp;but everything feels weak like in a dream and I feel like im going for a ride in my body or I&apos;ll tell my body to move into the fight but it&apos;ll feel like im in quicksand or concrete. <br><br><br>I think you&apos;re onto something about freeze being too much energy and about moving helping.<br> &nbsp;I noticed last time I froze after getting torn up in sparring, it really set in when I stopped . Once I sat down and rested, &nbsp;I literally felt frozen and like I couldn&apos;t get myself back into it. That&apos;s when that nasty feeling in my chest set in and I kind of just lingered. I think it started not because of the severity of what actually happened, &nbsp;but because I had no answers for someone and felt helpless. &nbsp;I tried HARD ( upped my pace and tried different strategies without escalating the amount of force innapropriately) , so I think I burned myself out by trying to go into a fight response but since I wasn&apos;t able to make it work I started to slip into freeze.

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• NY

  @NYMartialArtsAcademy · 4 years ago

  I didn’t know that Greek philosophy was the father of modern psychology. Great insight into the mind of a fighter/athlete.

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• DA

  @darraghthebadass4117 · 4 years ago

  Most relatable thing I’ve ever heard in years

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• CL

  @claymac7895 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Randy Couture described it as &quot;making friends with the worst possible outcome&quot;.

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• HA

  @Harma224 · 3 months ago

  Your such a legit solid guy