Meditating mindfully is a common thing these days. But what does mindful mean? The usual answer is that mindful is the opposite of mindless, so you are doing meditating with a sense of purpose and not just shutting your eyes and letting your mind skip around like a butterfly. There is another interpretation of mindful […]
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Perspective On Life
When it comes down to it we all need perspective on life. The way that we achieve that perspective is interesting. Many people in anxious situations find it hard because they try so hard to get perspective to enable resolution of their issues but they do so while staying in the life context which has […]
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Mindfulness and anxiety are two things that live at the opposite ends of the spectrum of unease in your mind. At one end of the mental unease spectrum anxiety is driven by thoughts of catastrophe which are driven by so many triggers in your life. At the other end of the mental unease spectrum mindfulness […]
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Anxiety acceptance is often thought of as a paradox. The paradox being that acceptance of anxiety is a capitulation, it’s you giving in to the anxiety and panic and stopping the fight. How can giving in to anxiety work? Well the thing is that all the time that you fight anxiety and panic and all […]
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Are anxiety and perception linked in some way and how much are they connected? How much are you aware of your perceptions? You perceive the world through your perceptions that’s your processing of your senses and the way your mind finds a mental framework or context that allows you to see it in a certain […]
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This post is about the efficacy of hypnosis for pre-surgery anxiety. It’s a common thing and it’s something that is often taken for granted. The logic being that it’s a serious thing so having serious thoughts about it is normal and feeling anxious about it must be normal too. I write this article 6 days […]
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Now there’s another interesting question: “How Does Anxiety Progress?” In a previous post I discussed an example of how does anxiety start that described anxiety as being a skill that you learnt. This article continues the example, it’s a mental model and not an exact description. So How does anxiety progress. Once you realise how […]
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How Does Anxiety Start Now here’s the big question: How does anxiety start? Well anxiety is like any skill that you have and it starts small and grows as big as you can make it. But it’s making me feel so bad, how can that be a skill. Let’s start at the beginning to misquote […]
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In my previous blog entry I started looking at dealing with anxiety. Today I’ll cover more on how to deal with anxiety. The overall plan of how to deal with anxiety Overall you will probably need help. But as a first step on how to deal with anxiety you could find this useful. As I […]
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So who needs to know about dealing anxiety? If you’re suffering from anxiety then you probably feel like there are so many things that life is doing to you, that other people are doing to you and that just happen to you. Then maybe you need to know about dealing with anxiety. If Your life […]
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