An assumption is a mental leap you take without looking around first. They're also taken for granted, and it's this easy-going acceptance of them that contributes to much of your anxiety. I would never trash assumption itself because it serves a critical role. It can help you make decisions when you don't have all the facts, and also helps to remove mental hurdles that could otherwise complicate decision making. For example, when you're driving down the highway you have to assume, to some extent, that other drivers aren't going to run you
Anxiety Guru Show Fundraiser Update
On December 30, 2009 I was on the brink of closing down the Anxiety Guru podcast. I ended up extending the deadline because I felt so bad about having to shut things down . But instead of just throwing in the towel, I gave my readers and listeners a chance to help and they came through in a big way. I have to say that when I opened up my laptop today I was floored. In 17 days I raised $227.50 making the fundraiser a total success. Today in particular I received a huge donation and I have to admit that it made me rub my eyes to make sure
See How Easily You Can Feel Better About Yourself
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something. ~ James Laver Anxiety can make you feel and think lots of things. Especially things that aren't necessarily true. Ultimately these false beliefs can influence and shape your self-image into complex distortions that make you think that you're too fat, dumb, giddy or whatever. A simple way to rejuvenate your self-image is to take care of your appearance. When it comes to helping people cope with anxiety lots of folks talk about drugs, therapy, and even gimmick programs. But
Anger Management for the Anxious and Depressed
The world of anxiety and depression will inevitably dish out a certain degree of confusion and chaos. You will find promising roads and dead ends of all kind as you search for ways to relieve your anxiety and or depression. This journey may frustrate you at times and the frustration can easily turn into irritability and anger. Here are a few tips to help you deal with that emotional powder keg. In order to get a handle on anger issues you first have to become more self-aware. This of course doesn't mean getting all meticulous about
Learning How To Relax
Today I wanted to introduce you to a great resource called The Reality of Anxiety . The Reality of Anxiety is authored by Aimee who was kind enough to offer some tips for my readers on how to reach that ever elusive state of relaxation. Learning How to Relax This month I have been looking into different ways to relax. Not just take-a-hot-bath relax (although I have been doing that too), but techniques that can have a significant effect on my anxiety. It’s important to reverse the effects that panic does to our bodies, specifically
Why An Anxious Mind Can Make You Vulnerable to Suggestibility
Have you ever wondered why you become so afraid when you have an anxious thought? It could be a thought about a potential panic attack, fear of embarrassing yourself, fear of going crazy or if you're in a depressive mode perhaps fear of hurting yourself or someone else. Most times you might yell internally and pronounce to yourself that you would never take action on that nasty thought. So why all the associated fear? In a word, suggestibility . Like a hypnotherapist, anxiety has the ability to manipulate your emotions and your thought
Warning: Anxiety Relapse Ahead
The wonderful thing about the modern age is that all of us generally have tons of information and services at our fingertips. In the United Stated for example, we have access to all types of information at blazing speed, a ginormous health care apparatus, and a zillion options to handle almost anything ailing us. And yet, given all this, you could still have an anxiety relapse. In other words, you can know all there is to know about your condition, take meds, have access to world class widgets, and all the rest of it and days, weeks or
The Power Of Compassion
To feel persistent fear is to be miserable, to feel sad because of fear is painful, to feel alone is what anxiety can make you. But it isn't simply the fear, sadness or isolation that bends our will and weakens our resolve. No, it's more than this. It is the final culmination of all that we hate about anxiety - the final turn inward, the path away from the outside, away from what we all understand as normal and inside our minds in search of a way out. What then can we implement to counter this inward, self reflective, even self-absorbed
“Depression, Anxiety Linked to Weight Gain”
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