The Phantom Alarm
A Somatic Guide to Calming Health Anxiety, Ending Body Hypervigilance, and Trusting Your Physical HealthBy Tarun Mankar
Length3h 37m
About this audiobook
Tired of health anxiety, heart palpitations, and midnight Google symptom spirals? A sudden chest flutter, a pulsing muscle twitch in your calf, or a strange headache makes your stomach drop in cold terror. You obsessively check your pulse on your smartwatch, search medical forums until three in the morning, and demand reassurance from doctors who insist you are fine.
The Phantom Alarm delivers the definitive somatic roadmap to breaking interoceptive hypervigilance and reclaiming physical body trust. Grounded in predictive neuroscience and polyvagal medicine, author Tarun Mankar reveals why your nervous system misclassifies harmless biological noise as fatal emergencies. Discover step-by-step resets to downshift racing heart rates, decouple physical sensations from catastrophic stories, and end compulsive symptom checking. Stop treating your body like a ticking bomb and restore lasting physical peace.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, Health and Wellness
Length3 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 — The Twitch and the Terror: Overcoming Interoceptive Hypervigilance
2Chapter 2 — The Internal Threat Detector: Why Your Brain Misinterprets Bodily Sensations
3Chapter 3 — The Reassurance Trap: Breaking the Compulsive Google and Doctor-Checking Cycle
4Chapter 4 — Cardiophobia and the Racing Pulse: Downshifting Heart-Rate Panic
5Chapter 5 — The Somatosensory Pendulation: Moving Attention from Pain to Neutral Ground
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6Chapter 6 — Phantom Symptoms and Neural Amplification: How Fear Creates Real Physical Pain
7Chapter 7 — The Search-Engine Delay Buffer: Reclaiming Peace from Midnight Symptom Spirals
8Chapter 8 — Breaking Somatic Hyper-Scanning: Training Your Eyes and Mind on the Horizon
9Chapter 9 — Living with Bodily Uncertainty: Developing Somatic Resilience and Tolerance
10Chapter 10 — Trusting Your Body Again: Restoring Baseline Safety and Reclaiming Your Life
11About the Author
12Closing Credits
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