I wanted to share my thoughts on this and know if anyone else have similar experiences? 

I have anxious thoughts sometimes, however most of the day I'm fine, meaning I don't generally dwell on anxious thought, at least I try not too.  On somedays I could be perfectly fine, happy even, then I start to have a hard time breathing, and lately feeling a bit lightheaded, in other words I can feel gut wrenching anxiety without consciously being anxious/depressed or worry.  Went to check with my doc and got a clean health report! This has always baffle for for years, how I can just feel anxiety sensations but not experience anxious thoughts?  Its a bit frustrating because I'm looking at certain strategy including supplements and they don't work for me because my mind is relatively calm already when I feel those symptoms.  I don't even have a trigger, that I know off, that I can even avoid or begin to treat! 

I stumble on something interesting last night while attending a virtual course on anxiety, in there the instructor suggested that it is indeed possible to feel anxious sensation without being consciously anxious.  Its too bad she sort of just left at that but it got me thinking that this! 

Here are my thoughts on this.   My hypothesis is that is that there really is still a deep seated anxious trigger somewhere but its harder to figure out because there is no obvious trigger, say being scared of spider or a trigger thought (  I'm going to die kind of thoughts). Instead I think there may be a subroutine that triggers it.  A silly example could be, say when you are working and you type certain words, and even if you don't know it triggers and anxious sensation.  ***Think of it as a non-sexual kink and that the result is not arousal but anxiety symptoms***.  If you are lucky, you can pin point to a few of these subroutine, however because there are literal thousands if not million of subroutine ( both external and internal) that we do each day, and not to mention that there could be clusters/combinations of subroutines that can trigger the same responses, finding the correct ones could be near impossible.  

Anyways my temporary solution is this. I have a timer ( insight timer ) that has  a pleasant wood knock that triggers about every 3-5 mins.  so as I go about my day, when I hear that, I have to do something, anything that can reduce my anxiety, preferably something less than a second to do and does not distract what I'm doing.    

For example in my last few 3 min blocks ( one click every 3 mins )  I did the following, literally stuck my tongue haha, 1 deep breath,  picture something funny, smile, bite up and down as if I'm a big fish trying to scare a shark, saying ohm out load, laughing out load, hug myself, clapping, all tasks literally taking less than a second to do without distracting from what I'm doing. 

I'm hoping that by doing these set if "distractions" every few minutes I  will eventually catch some of the subroutine and break its output.  This could be tested because I can log each day how I feel starting today!  Wish me luck. 

Would like to hear your thoughts on this especially if you experience the same thing and what your current or hypothetical solution would be!