What is Anxiety and What You Can Do About it?

In the course of a lifetime, everyone experiences some form of worry, fear or anxiety. It’s part of life, part of the human condition. However for millions of individuals, fear and anxiety become long term battles of intense emotional reactions they don’t understand and can’t seem to control.

Fear is not a disease; it’s a neurological process

Anxiety and fear are signals part of our neurology sends warning of potential danger. How one perceives danger is a neurological construction. Unfortunately in the complexities of today’s modern society, this fight or flight mechanism is often misinterpreted and misunderstood. Each person learns to process stress and adversity differently based on their own unique sensitivities, experiences and environment.

Intense anxiety can make it difficult to believe alternative ways of thinking exist. Seeing solutions and being able to effective cope with discomfort is difficult when the entire focus is on the problem.

To get past the process of anxiety, requires getting past a few misconceptions

• You can’t hide from fear. It’s a neurology process created within us. So trying to avoid, ignore or run from that which is created within us is an exercise in futility
• Will power and logic are no match for irrational or unwarranted fears. The frontal cortex on its own will not overpower the nervous system
• Doing nothing, changes nothing. Waiting to do something only prolongs the fear
• While medication can minimize the symptoms, it does not remove or help a person to better cope with the real issues at hand.

Those who fight these concepts often get trapped in an emotional roller coaster ride. The symptoms continue to get worse, the person knows they need to change and the process of fear becomes a life style. That is a hard place to find peace of mind.

There are many types of anxiety and fear. Phobias are fears revolving around a particular object or subject matter. Panic attacks are sudden neurological reaction to a known or unknown source. There are fears of the unknown, of ridicule, of making mistakes, of being mislead, of trying something new or even changing. Many of these fears keep the person from seeking assistance or reaching out for help stop their anxiety. That’s a shame, because someone has to take the first step if changes are to occur.

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Finding the Solution to Overcoming Anxiety

For many people their willingness to seek help or change only comes when the discomfort they feel is no longer bearable.

Knowing how the mind and body interact, how neurological processes support or diminish the quality of one’s life is what has allowed Designed Thinking to help clients make real changes. This has been particularly true for more challenging anxiety disorders such as OCD. The distinctive aspect of our counseling services is to fully respect the personal sensitivities and desires of each client. We help our client’s comfortably address core issues if needed or when possible, just let the changes occur. They not only end up being able to process thoughts and emotions more effectively, they also feel more able to cope with situations that might have created anxiety for them in the past

It is not just about changing your mind, it’s about changing the way your mind processes and associates fear. At Designed Thinking, our client’s experience a shift of focus, a restructuring of priorities, releasing old stuck patterns, allowing them the means of creating effective choice to better respond to situations and relationships. Call our toll free number 866-718-9995 and see how you can change.