One of the key factors in crushing anxiety and panic attacks is understanding how your mind is wired. It would be simple if we had just one mind… but we have at least two!
[Continue reading…]Stop Anxiety – Meet Your Unconscious Mind Part 8
July 29, 2011 By
In order to stop anxiety and panic attacks it helps a lot if we understand ourselves a bit better. Your Unconscious Mind is the” Elephant in the room” as far as anxiety goes.
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July 28, 2011 By
Your unconscious mind takes EVERYTHING personally. That means that any event, or person outside of yourself is interpreted on the unconscious level as YOU. At it’s extreme, someone may frown. You think they are mad at you. But they may be thinking about something totally unrelated to you. Read a book? Watch a movie? Your Unconscious mind thinks YOU are the main character which is why your heart can be racing in response to what’s going on in the story.
[Continue reading…]Stop Anxiety: Meet Your Unconscious Mind Part 6
July 27, 2011 By
One of the key things that you may not know about your unconscious mind that affects your attempts to overcome anxiety and panic attacks is this: Your Unconscious Mind can ONLY experience NOW. In other words thinking about the horrible thing that you don’t want to have happen in the future, creates all the same images and feelings as if it is really happening. Your unconscious mind THINKS it’s happening NOW.
[Continue reading…]Stop Anxiety: Meet Your Unconscious Mind Part 5
July 25, 2011 By
In order to stop anxiety it’s helpful to understand some key functions and processes of your Unconscious Mind and how it’s different than your conscious mind. Milton Erickson, the “father of modern hypnosis” was fond of saying, “My patients are my patients because they are out of rapport with their unconscious minds.”
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July 23, 2011 By
Your Unconscious Mind Runs Your Body. When you are experiencing an anxiety attack or a panic attack you are feeling it in your body right? Whether you like it or not, your unconscious mind is causing the fight or flight reaction because it is reacting to the perceived threat of your conscious focus. In other words if you are thinking about something bad happening at some point in the future, your unconscious mind (thinks it’s happening now) reacts as if that threat is real.
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