Overcome Anxiety & Find Calm
Anxiety comes in many forms through our thoughts, emotions and body sensations. They are found in many ideas that are readily available in TV Programs and Movies shown live.
Our mind body balance can be out of kilter when we are bombarded with too much drama and noise around us shown in movie and live televised news. This in culmination with any unresolved situational trauma or attachment trauma including grief and loss can be overwhelming for us and leads to our need to find outside help from a therapist. This can be daunting when we find it difficult to trust a therapist with our personal fears.
Ruminating thoughts drive anxious symptoms when we spin our thoughts around and around in worrying ways we become more anxious. Treating Anxiety Anxiety is looked at from the point of view of the individual receiving help. We may have struggles with procrastination by not taking action, or we can have core beliefs that inhibit our empowerment. This will change our posture preventing us from being confident and decisive in our lives. We aim to help you take purposeful action to cure your anxiety.
Another form of anxiety is imagining a danger that we can’t cope with.
Expanding Perspective
First we assess any risks associated with what we feel or think about that causes anxiety.
Second we need to assess whether we have resources to manage what’s in the way of us succeeding.
As therapists we help you understand yourself and your situation to form an assessment of how well you can overcome challenges stopping you from being capable of succeeding.
Michael Yapko psychologist and trainer said: “when people don’t have the awareness of themselves and what their own resources are, they … get lost in their feelings and get very anxious about things.”
Deepen Self Trust
Therapy helps us distinguish imaginary threats from real ones by talking it through with a therapist and cognitively understanding ourselves and our situation.
First, we help you understand what you are experiencing. As you break down the thing you are anxious about and understand how it sits in your mind body connection this helps one to live with peace in our heart. As Joan Borysenko said, “anxiety comes up for people … (when) people have a terrible scenario in their mind of where the anxiety is going to lead” (in the future).
Second, we help you know what your resources are to manage what’s unpleasant. Generalised Anxiety Disorder Often when we are flooded with anxious thoughts and feelings we look at our problems through the world we are living in, and this feels scary. This is called generalised anxiety disorder formed from a global cognitive style of thinking. We are unable to distinguish our difficulties from what we have seen or heard in the world on TV.
As we experience any form of uncertainty and loss we can project what we see in the world onto ourselves and our problems can seem more dangerous than they are.
Take Positive Action To Feel Empowered
We process what’s personal and private in us to gain resilience, confidence and self mastery to manage what’s scary in us. We help you slow down and come into the present moment to heal and feel calm again. This means being unafraid to be ourselves and to be able to express our talents and do the job we need to do.
We move past the confusion our minds may exaggerate and tell us, that we are either not good enough and pair this belief up with us being very good making us lose trust in our inner judgment to take right action.
For example, right action to participate with others socially and professionally. This can be dating again, looking for a new job, joining a new social group or hobby by examining how fear has stopped us from being connected to people and to feel loved.
Reference:
Michael Yapko Psychologist and Trainer and Joan Borysenko Psychologist in NICAB Level Up Therapy