Anxiety
Irene J. Sleight
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Most of us go through life carrying around unnecessary emotional baggage as result of accumulated thought processes about our life experiences. Our biography becomes our biology, and our struggle with anxiety often stems from a core belief that we are somehow flawed.
A phobia is an irrational fear that can be overcome by challenging and changing catastrophic thought patterns, while gradually exposing yourself to your feared situation. Since most people with phobias have a sensitive nervous system, it’s also important to reduce your sensitivity to adrenalin.
There are two techniques you can practice to desensitize yourself to anxiety attacks: exteroceptive and interoceptive desensitization drills. What's that, you ask?
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) affects millions of women with cyclical alterations in hormones and biochemistry that can greatly exacerbate anxiety and depression.
Biofeedback: A Reflection in the Mirror
Biofeedback measures, amplifies, and reflects back information about your physiology that may normally go undetected, and offers an insightful tool to help individuals improve self-regulation. It pickw up the subtlest physiological changes that occur in response to one’s thoughts, emotions, or symbols.
Growth often means leaving behind people, situations, and things that no longer work in our lives. They feel comfortable and familiar, but come with high price tag and a lot of anxiety!
Blushing: When a Common Reaction Becomes a Problem
Although blushing seems harmless to most of us, fear of blushing can have severe consequences for certain people.
Self-Medication vs. Self-Soothing
While medication can serve as an interim or adjunctive solution to alleviating anxiety, pain, depression, often times we rely solely on medication, and ignore an abundant inner resource of healing power.
P - Z Steps to Regain Your Power! (3 of 3)
The third & final in a series (P-Z) of A-Z ways to help regain your power to fuel positive life changes!
H - O Steps to Regain Your Power! (2 of 3)
The second in a series (H-O) of A-Z ways to help regain your power to fuel positive life changes!