71 - A Friendlier Way to Look at Fear & Anxiety

A Friendlier Way to Look at Fear & Anxiety Here’s another way to look at fear and anxiety. Most of the time most of us treat these emotions as something to avoid at all costs. We’ll either avoid the situations that cause them, or if they do arise we’l quickly try to abate them. We automatically and instantly reason that fear is a sign that something is wrong. There’s a threat to our survival and we need to make both the feeling and the threat go away ASAP! What if we took the opinion that these feelings are alerting you that you need to pay attention to new information that can benefit you, instead of something that’s threatening your ego or your survival? Instead of “here’s an imminent threat that could kill us” the same feelings are saying “hey, this is important so we’re preparing you to focus”? The sensations of anxiety aren’t going away as long as we’re alive. They’re our bodies natural response to anything new, or anything important. If we practice thinking of the sensations of allies we’re going to be so much better off. https://thementalhealthplan.com/a-friendlier-way-to-look-at-fear-anxiety/ https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=18248924&appointmentType=11286512