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Recently got a note from Lisa who saw my “How To Stop Anxiety Without Harmful Drugs of Endless Therapy” Video Series on YouTube.

She asked a really good question:

Hi there! my name is Lisa and i have just came across your videos about anxiety. Now I can see this working for those random times when anxiety pops up, but how do you deal with anxiety that doesn’t seem to go away ever? i have been suffering with anxiety on and off for years and for months at a time i can suffer with anxious thought 24/7 its frustrating and rather annoying. i do understand that it is my thought process but i cannot seem to hold on to that anxious free feeling for more then a half hour. its almost as if i am anxious about being anxious as weird as that sounds. anxiety is very very draining mentally and physically. and if you have any tips to deal with this it would be much appreciated. thanks for your time.

Dear Lisa (and other acute anxiety sufferers who seem to experience anxiety 24/7),

Usually I teach the anxiety technique to my 1 on 1 clients after we’ve already done a significant amount of work with clearing the entire chain of negative emotions from the past.

Here’s what happens. When we first feel an emotion whether it’s anger or sadness or fear, your unconscious mind identifies it and the next time it feels that same emotion it links the two in a chain that we call a “Gestalt”.

Over the years, every time you’ve felt fear that emotion gets neurologically linked up like a string of Christmas lights or a string of pearls.

Some events may be more significant and others less so, but they all get organized into the “fear” gestalt.

So if you are trying to clear anxiety (which is thinking about what you don’t want to have happen in the future, you body reacts as if it is really happening now which could trigger this whole chain of fear from the past.

The only way to clear the full chain of negative emotions is to use time line therapy techniques™ on the past events, and emotions that we all seem to drag around like baggage full of ‘negative fear-based Yucky-ness” (yes that is a “techinal” term )

The other thing that could be causing the 24/7 anxiety is something that we call a “Limiting Decision” or “Childhood Vow”. An example of this is the person who at some point decided (either consciously or unconsciously) that “if you really care about someone you worry.”

They may not understand that worry, like anxiety, is simply thinking about bad things happening. There could be some kind of decision you’ve made at some point in your past that is constantly running in the background like a computer program. It might have even served a positive purpose at some point but now it’s causing problems.

This is also something we can clear relatively easily with Time Line.

Ready to Overcome Anxiety?

I wish I had some easy self help solution for you but sometimes you need to work with a qualified practitioner, therapist or coach. Michael Jorden always had a coach. Tiger Woods has a coach.

The important thing is to find an NLP practitioner who is certified in Time Line Therapy™ Techniques. Some NLP practitioners do “time-lining” but I’ve found they lack the same kinds of skills as actual Time Line Therapy practitioners who have trained with Tad James, the creator of this technique.

This sounds like a self promotional plug and maybe it is. This is an area I’ve worked in for almost a decade now and I’m pretty good at what I do. So if you are ready to clear this old programming please contact my office and let’s see if we are a good match to work together.

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…The Human Race Would Have Disappeared Long Ago!

As much pain and suffering that we highly sensitive people go through because of our worry and anxiety these are traits that have saved humanity’s collective butt since time immemorial.

What do I mean?

Well, first of all you have to understand that anxiety is a thought process. It is NOT a mental disease. When you are anxious, you are thinking about what?

What’s great? What’s wonderful? How everything is going to turn out better than you can possibly imagine?

NOPE!

You are imagining the worst case scenario. Anxiety is thinking about what you DON’T want to have happen.
Am I right? Think about it!

So let’s float back in time for a moment to One Gazillion B.C. You are hanging out with your hunter gatherer tribal buddies and it’s summer time…

As the old blues song goes…

“Summer time and the livin’ is easy…”

It’s warm, there’s plenty to eat and it’s party time.

All of a sudden you have a thought about the future…You suddenly think of the coming… WINTER! You imagine digging through snow drifts for whatever you can find….

You imagine starving…

You imagine your children…hungry…cold…sick…

Hmmmm That just feels really, really bad, right?

So you come up with a brilliant idea. In order to avoid starvation in the winter you come up with the concept of drying food, and storing it in underground containers.

Then thinking about the cold, you come up with the idea that you can make warm clothing…

Thus the first root cellar is born and the fur coat is invented.

Not only is necessity the mother of invention, your ability to think ahead and visualize “bad things” happening enables you to plan ahead and take decisive action to create a different outcome…

Planning for the winter results in your family and tribe surviving! Your children and their children pass along this genetic code. The “lug-heads” who don’t have this ability don’t. They perish. Whoa! Pretty amazing huh?

Survival is a great thing isn’t it?

So those who were able to foresee the future and imagine the worst were able to better plan and as a result create a better future.

Now, fast forward to today. I would be willing to bet that if you are anything like me you’ve been using this
wonderful imagination of yours to imagine the worst…

Before every performance of mine as a singer/songwriter I would worry about getting a cold or worry about forgetting my lyrics or a guitar string breaking, or the audience not liking my music…

I could resolve the guitar sting thing by putting on new ones.

I could resolve the fear of going “blank” by having my lyric notebooks on a music stand.

The head cold…and whether people dug my sound or not…Those areas I had to use my Clear The Fear Fast, Modern Jedi Mind Mastery techniques on.

The point of this story is to:

1. Stop beating yourself up for “having anxiety.” It’s not a defect. It’s not a “sickness.” It’s not a “mental disease.” It’s a survival skill. It’s one of the best things that ever happened to the human race.
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2. Start taking charge of what you think about. In my Seminars and in my “Clear The Fear Home Study System,” I go into this in a lot more detail but for today suffice it to say that the major Anxiety busting technique we use is from Time Line Therapy(tm) and it is simply a reversal of what you’ve been doing all along: Instead of thinking about what you DON’T want to happen, think about what you DO want to happen.

So, imagine floating out to the future to the event about which you thought you were anxious… stay floating up above the event, looking down on the event as an observer…

Now go 15 minutes farther out into the future and turn and look back seeing that event “working out better than you can possibly imagine.”

Now where’s the anxiety? It’s gone isn’t it?

The reason this technique works is that your unconscious mind does not know the difference between what is real and what is imagined.

So if you imagine horrible stuff you body will literally react as if it’s really happening. Imagine really good stuff and your body will relax as if that good stuff is actually happening.

So this week practice this. This is not a one time “fix it.” This is a habit that you have to practice. There are days when I am literally walking around chanting:

“Why does it work out better than I can possibly imagine?”
“Why does it work out better than I can possibly imagine?”

And remember to THINK about what you WANT to have happen. And BTW how about a little appreciation for your “anxious” ancesters. Preparation is a great thing huh?

Anxiety – the ultimate survival tool!

Courage!

Mark

p.s. I welcome your questions and concerns please leave a comment below or feel free to e-mail me at mark [at] markshepard.com or call my offices at 888-578-7709

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