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Anxiety Signals Are Helpful But Not Directions
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“Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.” —Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 174
Anxiety Is Also Worry
- Anxiety is also known as apprehension, concern, disquiet, distress, doubt, dread, fretfulness, fussiness, jitters, misgivings, mistrust, neediness, nervousness, panic, restlessness, uncertainty, unease, and more.
- Most of the names and descriptions for anxiety only indicate problems when they are accompanied by modifiers such as: acute, always, deep, demanding, excessive, extreme, fierce, harsh, intense, over the top, and others.
- Click for diagrams and maps of how people control your mind and heart.
Stop Relying on Anxiety to Choose Your Responses
- Listen to your anxiety, but then make your choices with your heart and mind.
- Click for quotations on anxiety and worry.
- Click for diagrams and maps of how people control your mind and heart.
Anxiety Signals Are to Be Valued & Limited
- Anxiety signals from your environment help you to prevent accidents and injuries.
- You want to pay attention to anxiety signals to become aware of danger and threat.
- Often, anxiety signals from your heart and mind are imaginary and not worth your time.
- Often, anxiety signals from your heart and mind are just about ego and pride.
- You want to learn to stop making false anxiety signals and to value real anxiety (danger) signals.
Anxiety Choices Are to Be Avoided
- Anxiety choices are effective choices if they are instinctual like avoiding a car crash.
- However, technically that is not the anxiety making the choice but the survival instinct. And the survival instinct chose the “flight” response as the best option, not the anxiety.
- Anxiety choices can be effective if they have been programmed over time for effectiveness as a combat soldier might learn to do.
- However, the anxiety will not be making the choices but only triggering them.
- Anxiety choices are usually to flee (avoid, escape), and this is not always practical, realistic, or warranted.
- Anxiety choices based on ego pain, emotional hurt, and feelings of being slighted are nearly always foolish and counterproductive.
Use Your Senses, Feelings, & Thoughts
- Anxiety should be relied upon mainly as a signal about danger and threat, not as a choice mechanism.
- Use your heart and mind to find the solutions and responses that are the most appropriate.
- You do not want to run from a five-year-old because they might throw mud at you.
- You do not want to respond to loud noises with panic unless you are a newborn infant.
- Use reason, logic, problem-solving, and coping to make your choices, not anxiety.
- Read for a breathing technique to manage your stress and emotions.
Related Pages of Free Information
- Anxiety Notes
- Coping Skills: Free Help
- Emotional Responsibility & Maturity: List of Pages
- Exercises, Methods, & Techniques: List of Pages
- Long Version of Adding Shit to Shit
- Quotations: Anxiety & Worry
- Responsibility Issues: Free Help
- Shoelaces Parable
- Short Version of Adding Shit to Shit.
- STPHFR for Understanding Your Anger.
- The Hole Parable
- Read for a breathing technique to manage your stress and emotions.
6 Topic Groups Menu
- 1. Pages by Topic
- 2. Fast-Facts by Topic
- 3. Quotations by Topic
- 4. Poems by Topic
- 5. Scripture by Topic
- 6. Websites by Topic
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9 Skills & Topics Menu
- 1. Anger Issues
- 2. Blame Issues
- 3. Communication Skills
- 4. Coping Skills
- 5. Counseling Issues
- 6. Praying Issues
- 7. Recovery Issues
- 8. Responsibility Issues
- 9. Thinking Skills
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