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Becoming the lead character in your game of life

In this 53-minute video, we take a new turn and explore how we might perceive life a little less seriously and a little more playfully!

Could our life be seen as a game, like a computer game? And if we were playing a game, how might we choose to play it?

What outlooks, attitudes and skills might our lead actor/character require to be effective in this game? Does life have to be as serious, fearful and controlling as our anxious or OCD brains seem to try to make it?

Seeing Life as a Game: Becoming the Lead Actor in Your Life

Introduction to a Playful Perspective

I’m John Glanvill, author of The Calmness in Mind Process for Overcoming Anxiety, OCD, and Depression.

Welcome – I’m John Glanvill, and this is Video fifty-three – in my Calmness in Mind series – where we explore common-sense solutions for your calmer life.

So, if you’ve been watching all of my videos in numbered sequence through to this point, you’ll know by now that I examine life’s complicated problems and try to develop common-sense models, processes, techniques, and perspectives you can use to courageously address those challenges, accept them, or move away from them as part of taking more responsibility for what happens to you in this life.

Focusing on Inner Calmness

Therefore, this work is not necessarily about exploring what is true or false, right or wrong, scientific or unprovable, lawful or unlawful; it’s simply about doing anything (and everything) possible to create (within your brain) an inner reality of mental calmness, self-esteem, and direction and (within your cellular body) calmness by desensitising your nervous system to fear, change, conflict, and learning how to take action without being able to control outcomes – which, of course, is the whole concept behind effective ERP.

You then expand this process to increase your cellular mitochondrial energetic health, so you have more energy each day through diet, sleep, activity, breath work, and releasing trapped trauma and stuck energy from your body.

Then, you further improve your mood by accessing and releasing your natural feel-good peptides and hormones into your inner chemistry – and we do this by running optimistic, trusting, and nice stories in your head (or no stories at all) to placebo (or trick) your body into feeling good regardless of the truth of those stories in any moment.

This is just a process.

Embracing Life Through Exposure

Then by exposing yourself to life, people, and places, rather than hiding away and sanitising everything, you’ll be developing more life skills, having more adventures, uncovering more opportunities, and enhancing your natural immunity.

It’s just a common-sense process that you were (probably) never taught.

We are (consciously) tricking, placebo-ing, influencing, and retraining the unconscious aspects of our brain and body to improve our inner reality experience of life – regardless of what is happening in our outer reality experience of life.

And we do this regardless of how we were initially conditioned to behave in childhood and despite what we might have been told to believe (is true) by parents, school, university, science, our doctors – or whatever mainstream media rhetoric is trying to influence us to believe this month.

Choosing Action Over Emotion

Think about it – why can’t we (sometimes) make decisions (and take action) by following a process and, other times, by following our thoughts and feelings?

However, anxious or depressed people tend to make decisions with their thoughts and feelings – even if those reactions don’t serve them well or make them avoid taking action or abdicate responsibility to somebody else’s plan.

Surely, taking action via a process (regardless of what your brain or body wants) is what happens if you are in the army, the police, in prison, or working in some other heavily regulated job? – You do as you are told, no matter what your brain thinks or how anxious your body is feeling.

You get on with it – and suck up the discomfort or fear.

Or if you are trapped in a war zone or experiencing terrible poverty – you’d do what is necessary to survive regardless of the stories in your brain and the emotions in your body?

I wonder if we (in the West) have it a little too easy, thus affording us the luxury of procrastination or letting others look after (or support) us.

Courage Over Conformity

Now, because this course is all about self-empowerment and change – surely, if you wish to become a more courageous person, (initially) this will involve doubting your old fearful thoughts and feelings.

Do you want to be right, conformist, safe, told what to do, and be a nice person?

Or do you want to be calmer, braver, more self-responsible, more self-deciding, and a good person – by your own definition of the term good?

I think there is a huge difference between being a nice person and being a good person – and perhaps I need to make a video about that?

Surely, stress, anxiety, worry, and drama are essentially a clash of narratives—between the story of what your inner reality wishes to be happening and what is actually happening in the outer reality.

And (as I keep telling you), it’s much easier to change your inner reality stories (even if you have to consciously fib to your unconscious brain) than it is to change what is happening in the outer world.

Reprogramming for Calmness

So, if feeling calmer is your intention, you’ll need to put more effort into consciously programming your unconscious each day with the new stories and new attitudes of the person you desire to become.

And you’ll need to be reprogramming yourself faster, more often, and with smarter techniques – than the considerable effort being put in by governments, religions, big pharma, big food, and the media – as they vie for your attention, time, money, health, and to manipulate your behaviours to suit their agendas.

Anxious people seem to be the last group to open their eyes (wide enough) to realise they are the pawns in somebody else’s game of chess – who pretend to serve them but (in truth) are playing them to serve their own agendas.

That’s why, throughout this course, I’ve been urging you to test everything you’ve been told (to get real-world data) to see if these new approaches are true for you rather than just believing your deeply conditioned intellect and emotionally hypersensitive and exhausted body.

So, it’s by some discomfort (now) that you’ll find more calmness in the future – and, of course, this is the process of ERP.

Life as a Game

Now, the next step becomes a little more fun – because I’d like you to ask yourself…

Given the choice, would you prefer to live your life as if it were a game? – The Game of Life, where you hunt for opportunities, courageously ask for what you need, form alliances, learn new skills, get more points, find some upgrades, fall in love, reproduce, solve the riddles, and raise your energy levels?

Or, would you prefer to live your life (as best you can) within the restrictions of your existing beliefs or the guidelines set by your family, culture, religion, government, or any other person or authority currently controlling your life?

Which we might refer to as living within a ‘tribal’ framework, where you could be seen as a participant in their game of life.

Because whether you (currently) see life as a game (or not) might powerfully influence how you might choose to live your life now.

So, I’ve called this video – “Playing the Game of Life!”

Or I could expand that to “How might you become the Courageous Lead Actor – in your Game of Life? Which will (ultimately) become the experience of your life.

The Lead Actor’s Role

And, as the lead actor of your life – are you currently enhancing or sabotaging your advancement through each level of this game?

And, do you believe that everything ends when this game of life ends?

Or do you have faith (or hope) that death is just a reset where we lose everything that is not us – but retain our knowledge and experiences from this life, which are logged and registered in the formless, energetic, universal iCloud storage of our Higher-Self?

And then, we get to come back to play again (sometime) in a new avatar and are presented with a whole new set of challenges to learn to overcome.

And we loop around this game – until we have learned enough wisdom to escape this dense frequency loop of matter – and are invited to enter the high-frequency energetic realms of higher consciousness and wisdom?

And even if that’s not true – wouldn’t it be a nicer story to have running in the unconscious inner reality of your brain?

The Power of Inner Reality

We can lose ourselves in a computer game, watching a film, or reading a good book – therefore, it is not too hard to accept that our brain and body can temporarily accept fake sensory inputs and assume them to be true.

Especially if you put on a virtual reality headset, it is almost shocking how quickly your brain and body adapt to those inputs as if that experience were real, you might say it’s a total body placebo!

So, I am asking, what are you consciously doing to make your inner reality more pleasant?

Remember, in your inner reality, you can’t be punished for imagining that you’ve harmed or mistreated someone or broken rules. And there are no laws to stop you from imagining the most beautiful of mental scenarios – It’s your personal space of imagination (and dreaming), and you can do whatever you like in there, similar to in a computer game.

You could be running stories of things going wrong or beautiful stories of things going right; you could cling to negativity or switch to positivity, remember the bad things from your life or the good things.

You could play that inner game as a nervous wimp or as a courageous warrior – it’s up to you.

Shifting Perspectives

So, this perspective of living your life as if it were a computer game is quite interesting; it’s certainly how Jen and I view our lives these days.

However, if you’d asked me to do that twenty years ago, I’d have argued with you about how scary and serious life was and that I had to act with responsibility and follow all the rules.

Luckily, I did manage to change, however, to do so – I had to re-evaluate many of my values, beliefs, and the old negative, fearful, and pessimistic stories I ran (in my inner reality) about myself and the world around me.

Do you remember back in video thirty where I asked you to consider what truth is? – Well, from this inner reality perspective, your truth can be anything you choose it to be!

Of course, in the outer world, there are some shared truths and some consequences, but in your inner reality, whatever you choose to think (or be) true can be true for you!

For example, in my inner reality, I like myself, so even if people in my outer reality don’t like me, it doesn’t matter; therefore, I don’t need to be nice to others so they’ll like me – I can choose to be nice to people, just because I choose to, or I can ignore them if they are nasty to me – or if they add no value to my life.

So, you see, though I can’t take responsibility for everything that happens in the outer reality, I can take a lot more responsibility for how I consciously treat myself in my inner reality.

Addressing Underlying Issues

Can you see that by focusing on the symptoms of your anxiety, OCD, depression, or life issues will never solve those underlying problems that caused them?

It is by creating a new dream for yourself, who you wish to become, and what you wish to do – then taking action towards those dreams that will begin to address your true underlying issues of boredom, low self-esteem, exhaustion, and not being your true self!

And if you are lucky enough to already have a dream (which few people do) – what might you do (now) to stop procrastinating and take any action towards it?

How can you explore – how you might pull it closer in time to this point called now, which is the only time and place where you can facilitate the process of making change begin to happen?

Escaping the Someday Isle

Anxious people tend to fall into the trap of believing that if they wait long enough, things will resolve themselves, or if they wait a bit longer, circumstances will change, which might allow them to take action.

But this is not true, if you aren’t strong enough to take action now towards your best life, you won’t have the strength to do it later either, so you’ll always be at the mercy of life or somebody else’s plan for you.

I like the story of a beautiful island where everything is perfect – just how you wish it to be – and it is called the Someday Isle.

“Someday, I’ll have enough money.”

“Someday, I’ll be calm enough.”

“Someday, I’ll decide what I want for my life.”

“Someday, I’ll get a job.”

“Someday, I’ll learn how to speak up for myself.”

Of course, this is a mythical isle, much like it is mythical, to expect your life will change unless you make it change!

Once you can see from this new perspective, it is easier to ask yourself – “What am I doing each day to input an action or two into the outer matrix of life to influence it in my favour?” —-

The Courage of Actors

Let me give you an example of how powerful a change in perspective might be – that someone (with a more anxious disposition) might have missed.

What if an actor (or singer) were about to go on stage in front of a huge live audience, and you asked them, “Are you feeling anxious?”

They might say…

“I feel terrified, my body is shaking, and my brain is telling me I can’t do this, that I’ll forget my words, that I’ll freeze or choke up, then everybody will judge me, and I’ll never be able to work again!”

You might say, “Wow, how can you still do this?”

And they might reply, “Well, I’ve learned not to trust or believe my brain, and I have the courage to take action even though my body is scared – because I know the feeling I’ll get afterwards from doing something this life-engaging will be absolutely worth this temporary discomfort.

And even if my acting goes wrong in some manner, I can respectfully say to myself – at least I tried. And I’ve been told that most good people in the audience would actually feel compassion for me if I messed up in some way, especially if I could recover well (and laugh at myself) as nobody is perfect, and they probably already think I am courageous (and inspirational) just for putting myself in this situation in the first place!”

Can you see – that this perspective is actually quite sensible?

Acting Through Fear

So, how is it that an actor can have intrusive thoughts and anxious feelings yet ignore them and still take actions towards doing what they desire to do – yet a person with anxiety or OCD believes they must avoid anything that causes their brain or body discomfort?

Let me give you another example… In her twenties, my wife, Jen, was a fashion (and catwalk) model, and she tells many stories of being paralysed with fear yet still getting on with what needed to be done at a show.

At one particular event in London, seconds before walking out, she was so anxious due to the audience being made up of top fashion designers and buyers that she had to throw up into a waste paper bin seconds before stepping out and pretended to be calm and serene as she glided down the catwalk, smiling as if nothing had happened.

This is called acting (or pretending) – and remember, how you feel is much less important than the virtual reality story you set up in those around you (who are observing and experiencing your act), which will influence how they later treat you.

What makes this experience even more ironic is that, from that event, she was spotted (and recruited) by a leading design house to be their international model – travelling to all the famous venues like New York, Paris, and Munich because they loved the confidence and calmness she exuded!

It’s just a game, the game of life – and how you play that game will influence the outcomes of your life – whatever they may be, and you can’t know what they will be until they unfold, but they are unlikely to unfold with you sitting at home hoping for something to happen!

Becoming an Actor in Life

So, I am asking you to consider how you might become an actor – because if you can learn to ‘play any part’ through lots of practice (which we might call ERP) you’ll have more chances of landing a job, getting into a relationship, and being able to courageously ask for what you want in any situation.

Because if you are going to engage with the game of life, acting, pretending, and playing would be very useful life skills to develop.

And people say to me, “Yeah, John, but… Actors are extroverts, show-offs, great communicators; they’re funny and talented because they can sing and dance and remember all those lines…”

Well, yes, because they went to dance classes, terrifying auditions, singing lessons, and acting classes, they Exposed themselves to what they desired and Prevented the Responses from their brain and body from Preventing them from taking action – ERP!!!!

And what about Keanu Reeves, Harrison Ford, and Emma Watson? They are not extroverts; they’re introverts.

And to me, that type of actor is especially a hero for following their desires despite being quiet, shy, and reserved.

That was how I overcame my anxiety; by prioritising my formless, energetic soul’s need to expand into life over my brain’s thoughts or my body’s feelings to avoid discomfort or embarrassment.

The rider (my Soul) can be calm, even if my horse (my brain and body) are anxious – and with repetition, they become less anxious and more proficient.

Learning Through Failure

Why do so few anxious people realise… That exposure (to the repetition of failure) is how you develop experience and confidence!

Just as it is in the Boss Section at the end of a computer game to access the next level, you might fail fifty times until you figure it out and perfect that skill.

Many nervous people are happy to do that in a computer game but won’t take that same common-sense philosophy and apply it to their lives.

ERP on who you wish to become and what you wish to do with your life is the fastest way to improve yourself and your life. Assuming that improving yourself and your life is a desire higher up your decision-making framework than avoiding fear, embarrassment, and discomfort, as I describe in the workbook associated with video 32, part two.

If you have completed that workbook, you might revisit it and make any changes that allow this new perspective to be incorporated.

Breaking Free from Old Stories

Can you see that when we add a common-sense process to life – it is harder for your old brain stories and existing beliefs to retain their power?

And if you can’t answer the question – “Who do I wish to become and what do I wish to do?”

Then you will be played by life. Life will play you – you’ll do what your family does, you’ll believe what you are told rather than trying things out, you’ll defer responsibility to others, you’ll follow other people’s rules – and fear saying what you truly wish to say – and is that really how you wish to play this game?

Brene Brown nailed it when she said – that the definition of courage is feeling vulnerable yet still taking action!

It’s so damn simple – scary, yes, – but the process is simple.

Inspiring Action

So, this phase of the course is focused on motivating, inspiring, shocking, urging, nudging, and pushing you into action and helping you to break your old patterns of fearful thinking, procrastination, or whatever self-limiting behaviours you may have.

All the tools you need are in those previous fifty-two videos.

Have you watched them all? How many times have you cycled around them? Did you read the books? Did you listen to the meditations? Have you fully immersed yourself in the ERP process?

Or are you still sabotaging yourself?

Well, just maybe, turning life into a bit more of a game might be the new perspective which drives you forward.

The Power of Action Over Analysis

Let me remind you of the work of Dr Donald Hoffman (whom I introduced you to in video 44), whose experiments showed that those who took direct action on their needs for things like sex, money, food, jobs, and social integration (without too much thinking) – normally out-survive (and out-perform) those who try to examine the truth of any situation or understand everything (before they take action) or are afraid of trying new things in case they might fail.

It’s obvious, really!

Take action towards your desires, see what happens, adjust your strategy in response to that outcome, see what happens, take action – rinse and repeat towards your intentions…

It’s just a process.

Embracing Failure as Growth

I remember in the late 90s, I worked for a large software company as a technical sales engineer, and the management implemented a strategy called Fail, Fast, Forward.

Whereby we were told to embrace failure as a part of the innovation and learning process, to accept that failure is inevitable and that it’s better to fail quickly and learn from it rather than waste time trying to make a flawed idea work.

At that time, this perspective – of knowing that if I tried new things and they didn’t work, I wouldn’t be fired – really allowed my natural creativity to be released, and it enabled me to experiment and play with new concepts; thus, my confidence and skill set grew enormously.

But, I was never taught these strategies in school; I had to learn them later in life and overwrite all my old stories with a new narrative.

Dr Hoffman’s concepts translate beautifully to the computer (or life) game model, too.

A person just diving into a game, looking under every stone, interacting with every person, and trying to get all the energy, tools, skills, and points will quickly move up the levels by gaining more experience (through failing often) – and will (of course) outperform a person who doesn’t play much, or is afraid of losing, or gives up if the challenge is a little difficult.

Avoiding Typecasting

And, one last thought on this acting metaphor I’d like you to consider – are you currently living your life a bit like a type-cast actor who always plays the same roles, like a henchman, a villain, a nervous Nelly, a Bond girl, or an extra, a face in the crowd, an NPC?

Sure, they have a small part to play, but they’ll never be picked for any other roles as they are too rigid, inflexible, and unable to adapt to all the varied opportunities the acting world has to offer; you might say limited by their own beliefs and afraid of change or attempting something bigger.

A Client’s Transformation

OK then, I’d like to share a recent “aha” moment that one of my clients told me about – as he followed the process of reprogramming himself from his Pure O OCD and adapting to using his ADHD brain configuration in more creative and productive manners.

During one of our conversations, I mentioned that I sometimes struggle when writing new videos – and he offered to read what I had written and provide feedback to help me consider the needs of my audience.

We agreed, and I began to share my thought process from concept to final script for my video Fifty, five-part ERP series.

And his input was incredibly helpful. We went through many iterations, with him reading, adding ideas, and reviewing my changes many times.

By the time I’d finished those five videos, he told me he’d found it easy to remember the teachings and was naturally applying them to his life.

He said that this had motivated him to revisit the course, and as he rewatched the videos – he realised that he had forgotten much of the earlier material but had retained the information from the ERP series, which he had contributed to editing.

He concluded that his ADHD brain had benefited from the intense repetition and the emotional engagement in subject matter that he enjoyed studying and which interested him.

The Power of Repetition

Our brains are adaptable, malleable, and retrainable – and silly us if we are not consciously trying to make that inner experience as wonderful as possible through the repetition of a new, more favourable inner story, even if it’s not true!

We need to keep practising, playing, and repeating – it’s like learning a new language; reprogramming your brain requires repetition and immersion; no one would expect to learn a new language just by reviewing a phrase book or a single YouTube video once a month, the same applies to all types of learning.

Overcoming Childhood Conditioning

So, I’d like to end this video by exploring some of the challenges you might face as you transition to becoming the lead character in your game of life.

I believe that the main obstacles to achieving inner freedom stem from our childhood conditioning.

During our upbringing, we were exposed to various family values, cultural beliefs, religious teachings, and other influential ideas that became ingrained in our subconscious minds.

Although these patterns may seem deeply rooted, it doesn’t mean we have to accept or act upon them. The challenge now lies in how we can embrace new perspectives while those old beliefs linger in the background like echoes from the past that we are learning to ignore.

Choosing a New Role

Might we switch to a new character’s perspective, from the victim to the protagonist and say, “You know what, I don’t want to play that old game anymore!”

As the lead character in your new game of life, might you turn to those tribal characters in your life and say…

“I love you, and I respect you – and I wish you well in the game that you are playing – but I’m going to play a new game because I desire (and deserve) much more from my life!”

Then, like in my guided meditation number four, you cut those tribal emotional chords – you take all the positive lessons and learnings from the tribe – perhaps changing how you connect with those people, memories, or traumas and, if necessary, releasing those low-energy responses like ego, pride, guilt, shame, and blame – just let them go.

We can love those people for who they are rather than who we wish them to be, and we can loosen the grip our tribes have on us as we develop and expand our lives on new terms better suited for the life we desire to live.

We may also consider how we can consciously break some of those old tribal patterns so they are not passed down to our children and grandchildren, as I discussed in video twenty-nine in my REPLICATOR model.

Embracing Perceived Weaknesses

The second perspective I’d like you to consider is – rather than focusing on what you like about your lead character, how might you spend a little time focusing on the stories you have about your lead character’s perceived weaknesses?

Is he too small, too weak, too bald, too shy, too fat, too thin, too boring? Is he uncomfortable with confrontation, public speaking, or scared of failure or rejection?

Because if you are going to be the lead character, you are only as strong as your weakest link both internally through self-criticism or externally by feeling judged or fearing rejection.

But if you learn to accept (or love) that inferior aspect of yourself – you’ll stop being horrible to yourself, and if others bring it up, you can just smile as it no longer triggers you.

A Lesson in Self-Acceptance

I recently heard a lady talking to a manager in a store – and she said, “Bear with me because I am uncomfortable with conflict, and when I get angry, I struggle to say what I truly feel. However, I feel I have been treated badly – and this needs to be said…” And she went on to make her complaint.

And I thought to myself- “Wow, that was really courageous – she had owned (and accepted) those weaker aspects of her skillset and didn’t let them stop her from her taking action, though she was both anxious and angry.

In the first half of my life, I disliked being small and going bald, and they were issues that troubled me emotionally until I learned the skills I am sharing with you.

These days, I love being myself and accept my height and baldness with no reservations. All that changed was a deep (loving) acceptance of myself.

When people say, “Oh, you are quite small!” I just smile or say something like, “Yes, I love it.” I’ve learnt that it doesn’t have to be an issue for me, even if others try to make it so.

So, my recommendation for you is… Things that you dislike about yourself that you can’t change – learn to accept them deeply, stop focusing on them, stop trying to hide them.

And that which you potentially could change, get on with changing it no matter how awkward that might be in the beginning – act your way through as part of your ERP process!

Building Confidence Through Practice

I also have great respect for people who join the organisation called Toastmasters. This group teaches you how to communicate effectively, how to think on your feet during conversations, and how to present confidently.

Participants not only learn better communication skills, but also learn to be comfortable with being the centre of attention, asking for what they want, and presenting themselves.

Now, these are really useful life skills, not just for presenting as part of your job, but also for dating, asking for what you want, and handling job interviews too.

But (I think) more important than learning those communication skills – is the ERP experience of turning up and bravely accepting the emotional discomfort of learning how to present in front of others – which they do in a safe and supportive environment.

And the smart people at Toastmasters realise it doesn’t matter if another person there is a better presenter than them; what’s important is they are improving themselves and desensitising their fears so they can be more effective in their own game of life.

It’s a really powerful process and one I would recommend to everybody because bravery (and courage) are the ultimate antidote to the fear of anxiety and the boredom of depression.

Choosing Your Attitude

Now, another powerful tool your lead character can adopt for use within this game of life – is the concept of choosing the right conscious attitude for any given moment (or situation).

As I have said many times – I don’t think there is much we can unconsciously (or consciously) always control to get the exact outcomes we desire.

However, it is possible to temporarily (consciously) choose an attitude that we can consciously try to keep our awareness on – until our conscious awareness is distracted or we slip back into being run by our old unconscious programs.

Like our lead actor – consciously remembering to be Sherlock Holmes and consciously holding those attitudes of defiance, curiosity, arrogance, impatience, detachment, and logical thinking front of mind for two hours on the stage – then slipping back into their normal unconsciously run self afterwards.

I think that people often fail to realise that concepts like happiness, gratitude, forgiveness, and optimism are fundamentally just conscious attitudes that, with intense repetition, may become automated unconscious responses.

I know this to be true as I used to be a pessimist, but now I’m an optimist – as I consciously reprogrammed my old pessimistic brain routines. Yes, it took a year or two, but it was totally worth it, as living life as an optimist is more fun and less stressful!

So, what conscious attitudes might your lead character wish to practice adopting that might expand his effectiveness in this game?

And the best high-energy attitudes are really quite simple, attitudes, like honesty, integrity, humility, willingness, courage, trust, hope, love, and acceptance.

Those attitudes are so much more effective than low-energy ones like – fear, doubt, pessimism, control, anger, and apathy and the negative results they produce, like gossip, complaining, arguing, jealousy, envy, resentfulness, and holding grudges.

Can you see, this is just a process?

Communicating with Courage

My next tip for your lead actor is a big one – it’s to stop having important conversations via email or text.

If you need to ask a person to do something important, or you need to negotiate financial deals, reprimand another person, or ask for help – do it face to face.

Look into their eyes and say what needs to be said for your better life – yes, it might be easier to text, but it’s also easier for them to say no by text or to ignore you.

Can your lead actor perform in new ways that are courageous, which force them to ‘own’ sorting out their life and becoming more comfortable with the discomfort of taking more responsibility for the outcomes of their life?

This one technique is a game-changer in learning the art of self-worth – which, as I keep telling you – is the ability to be nice to yourself and to influence others to treat you with respect (and for you not to take personally what they say or do).

Stepping into Your Story

So, as I close this video – Ask yourself – “How might I – become the lead actor in my game of life?”

How might I turn off my real computer games, stop watching other actors on television, and step into my own new story?

How might I switch to following the desires of my heart for the life I wish to lead rather than listening to the pessimistic thoughts of my conditioned brain and the over-sensitive (and out-of-date) reactions from my body?

And I wonder who you’ll become, where you’ll focus your creativity and courage as you learn new skills and address those aspects of your life – that, once changed, will move you up to the next level.

It’s just a process – it’s the game of life!

Thanks for listening, and Let’s start playing.

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