AI-era anxiety: listening to the body
By Amir Alon, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) - 25 August 2026
Tools change every month, roles blur and the future is hard to picture. If AI is reshaping your work, you may have noticed it in your body before you had words for it: shoulders that stay up, a breath that never quite finishes, a mind that keeps scanning ahead.
Why it feels physical
Your nervous system does not distinguish between "my field might change" and a real threat in the room. Both put it on alert. Thinking harder about an unreadable future does not settle it; mostly it feeds the loop. What settles it is simpler: information from the present moment.
Three things to try
These are not exercises to fix anything. They are ways of noticing what is already there.
- Look around. When the scanning starts, let your eyes move slowly across the room and rest on a few ordinary things. Then notice: has anything changed in your breath or your shoulders? Maybe not. That is fine too.
- Feel what holds you. The chair, the floor under your feet. Stay with that contact for a moment. Worry lives in the future; the ground is here now.
- Name a sensation instead of the story. "Everything is changing and I will be left behind" has no size and no exit. "A tightness in my chest, about the size of a fist" has both. Stay with it a little, without trying to make it go away, and see what it does.
When the bracing has become the baseline
These are small things for the moment. If the tension has settled in, with sleep that does not come, a body that stays on guard long after the working day or patterns you understand but cannot change, that usually asks for accompanied work, at the pace of your own system. In Somatic Experiencing® sessions we do not analyse the uncertainty. We pay attention to how your body carries it and look together for a response that serves you better.
This is somatic coaching, not medical or psychological treatment.
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