Originally Posted by
ankietyjoe
Your heart tends to become more active the more you focus on it. The heartrate can be high, it can be stronger than usual, it can skip beats, you can have odd sensations in your chest etc.
All those things are exacerbated by constantly thinking about it.
It's very common to have an increased heart rate after eating (mine does especially after an evening meal - often by about 20bpm or more) for a few hours, and mornings are traditionally a tough time for anxiety sufferers because of the way hormones work.
The best thing you can do by far is just letting them be. It's not going to harm you in any way. Just accept that it's going to feel that way for a while, and tell yourself nothing bad is going to happen (you have historical and experiential proof of this).