Yes, I have similar. I take this as anxiety doing its nature-given job and letting me know there is something out of sync with my physical system. The fact that my survival instinct is drastically over-developed creates some nurture-given snot knots, but I don't blame that fact on nature. I ply therapy tools to calm the excessive responses from my psychotic hyper-vigilance.

Yes I do too. The pain between my shoulder blades in my spine always triggers memories of past abuse.

With anxiety, expect anything. These symptoms come from being hyper stimulated. The more you pay attention to them, the deeper rooted they become. I have found that accepting the symptoms and doing a little self diagnosis on myself works when I’m confronted with “new sensations.” I tell myself it is only anxiety causing me to zero in on that new sensation/feeling and then I let it go and focus on something to distract me from it. Practicing this acceptance technique leads to the mind and body becoming more relaxed, which in turn causes the technique to become easier to implement. I guess you could say it becomes an automatic response. But it does take practice.

100%. I've learned one way to respond to those stimuli that is not particularly helpful and I need to relearn how to respond. And that relearning is going to take time. I'm getting better. I'm able to identify what's happening. Sometimes I'm able to relax into that awareness. Other times, not do much. But progress is progress.

Yes. As @mtd said, distractions, distractions, distractions.

If you feel that type of symptom again, try telling yourself "Oh, what is that feeling??? Oh, I know! It's from that hard work out I did the other day. That makes sense. I am proud of myself for working out. I am looking forward to tomorrow's work out. I'll be doing legs then. That will be good. I am really getting myself in shape! This is great!"

Then, immediately go DO something (not the body scan). Make yourself a healthy snack. Turn on some music you like. Go outside. Take a walk. DO something, because that will not give the anxiety the energy it craves. Anxiety comes from thoughts. By doing something else that doesn't require much thinking, the anxiety will get bored and go away.

You can try this every time. By the way, I got these techniques from a new and popular anxiety book called "Dare" that I am reading. To accept the anxiety and invite it along with your every day activities. Then the anxiety "gets bored" and will go away faster.

You're doing great! Keep up with the exercising. It will really help with anxiety. Even just taking walks outside will really help with anxiety. Good luck.

I started reading "Dare", but I don't think I ever finished it. I'll have to go back and give it a read.

That quick check-in is actually what I mean by a body scan. I take a couple of seconds to go through my body... kinda check things off... no sweaty palms, no chills, no nervous energy, no racing thoughts... and then I can say, "Nope, not anxiety, I'm just sore."

As someone who has worked out his whole life, being sensitive to soreness like this is obnoxious. I like working out, but I hate aching. My wife tells me to treat it as practice. The older I get, the more I'm gonna ache "just because", so I should just get used to it.

What you described doing is acceptance. It takes practice to be accepting of the symptoms. Look up “it’s only anxiety”. Great site for helping with recovery. It ‘s about learning acceptance, has helped me a lot.

Yep. I've been looking into ACT some over the past year and meditating daily. There was a great line from the setup for today's meditation, "With meditation we are training our ability to be at ease with the mind as it is." As you say... acceptance. Accept how I feel and go do something so I don't just sit and keep thinking about it.

Yes, that should help a lot. To go do something. When I am sitting here, and thinking about some anxious thought, I will think more and more about it, because I am just sitting there thinking. Then it could turn into a whole catastrophizing thing.

Instead, I just get up and go DO something. And if I do something productive, it gives me an added bonus of accomplishing something I needed to go do anyway.

It helps me, I hope that will help you, too. Or, try writing it out in a journal. Get the thoughts out of your head and on to paper.