Comments on: The Evil Trick Anxiety Plays on You and How to Turn the Tables

By: Doris Jeanette, Psy.D.

Doris Jeanette, Psy.D. — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:25:02 +0000

Briget, when the intensity of your anxiety goes up, this can be helpful if you engage in person growth and self improvement. Higher anxiety means there are basic needs and desires that you are neglecting and probably have been ignoring for your whole life. There are many factors that can trigger your past learning and make you more anxious. You do not want to avoid these triggers, you want to embrace them so you overcome your anxiety at the source.

Your emotional self needs you to find, accept, love and protect her so she is no longer afraid and anxious. Here is a link with more information about anxiety from a holistic psychology point of view: http://www.drjeanette.com/anxiety.html Natural empowerment is the best way to treat anxiety. Overcoming your anxiety will result in increased self esteem, more self confidence, better relationships and lots more fun.

By: Briget

Briget — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:31:08 +0000

Thank you for this article. Anxiety is not new to me, but the intensity of it is. I am going to try to let it be and see what happens. I just wish the tightening in my chest would go away!

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:43:13 +0000

I think your article is awesome. I read what you wrote about in a book by Paul David and the first day I tried it, it started to work. Then I read your article and I couldn’t believe it, I was able to walk into a store and not nervous, then I had one of the best night’s sleep I have had. It was amazing after 6 months of having anxiety it was like gone! So I came on here again today to remind myself of what to do just to keep it going and to Thank you. I tried everything before yours and Paul David article and book and nothing worked as good as your article. I found also along with thinking the way you said, keeping myself busy, exercise and using a cognitive behavioral book I have been improving so much! By the way I suffer from Anxiety and PTSD from when I was in the military. Thanks again and keep up the good work!

By: egypt rocks

egypt rocks — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:24:11 +0000

thanks alot it helped me very much this work just let the anxiety pass and you will feel much better and dont thinks about it its good :)

By: Bogdan Mihai

Bogdan Mihai — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:08:50 +0000

Every time i get the feeling of anxiety i become extremly mad people say that i have temperment isusses….i relly like the feeling its very empowering for me.

By: rob

rob — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:12:26 +0000

I agree with the article, we cannot run away from our fears. They are with us all the time, in the back of our minds. Its only until we face them & over come are fears, that we will be free of our anxiety. Embrace your anxiety, welcome it, with open arms. The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself, right?

We that have anxiety, are scared, frightened & fearful. What we need is the yin to are yang, which is..? Anger. Overcome your fears with anger! Its not about retaliation or revenge, its about regaining yourself. Get mad, anger is a gift!

By: Eleni

Eleni — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:28:02 +0000

Stopping a panic attack in its tracks certainly cannot cure general anxiety or stop you from having another panic attack in the future. But it is very important to do so, because the key to conrolling your panic is to rationalize your fear and persuade yourself that it is unjustified. It is only by stop fearing your panic attacks that you can ever hope not to have another one in the future. However, there is no way you can think rationally or control your fear in the middle of a full blown panic attack. So the first step, learning how to stop a panic attack before it actually begins, is very important in the long struggle of learning how to control your fear of panic attacks.
Eleni´s last blog ..How to Cope With Your Panic Attacks! updated Sun Jan 2 2011 4-39 am CST

By: Natalie

Natalie — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:42:14 +0000

Hello :)
i found this article very interesting and my therapist said that i should learn to sit with my anxiety so im currently working on this
my only problem is that my anxiety is trying to convince me that im something im not so thats why im scared to just let it slide….eh

By: Katherine

Katherine — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:44:56 +0000

This is the exact thing I have been working on.
I have a history of impulsive eating habits. As I have been able to deal with them more and more I have found that I have a history of many, many impulsive habits outside of food-related ones. I am working on dealing with emotions directly. Not eating/not-eating/reading dieting books/going on walks/listening to music/drawing/drinking water/calling a friend/etcetera, etcetera to distract me from those like I have been doing for most of my life, but rather, being still, observing what I am feeling and where it may have come from; not trying to stop it or make it more intense but just noticing.

This article is a great source of inspiration for this work! Thank you so much! It certainly didn’t seem like sneaky advertising to me. :)
-Katherine

By: Carl Harris

Carl Harris — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:31:46 +0000

Hi – you’ve hit the nail right on the head with this one. Trying to relax is a denial technique that suppresses the release of emotional energy – once you’ve produced an energetic emotional response in the body it’s too late to ‘relax it’ – it needs getting out through emotional release. In other words – you just feel it until it’s gone. I’ve come across a number of valid experts who do help people to get better – in spite of them preaching the ‘talk yourself into a relaxed state’ stuff.

True relaxation (and emotional freedom generally) is achieved by going fully through the emotional release process rather than running away from it or holding it at bay.

Feeling bad occasionally is a natural part of being human and telling ourself we shouldn’t just escalates it further by trapping it in.
Carl Harris´s last blog ..Six Basic Moods