Author: clarity
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How labeling something as unacceptable/not triggers anxiety
Summary: Whenever you label something as unacceptable you are knowingly or unknowingly declaring that there will be emotional consequences if you’re ever imperfect. Instead of labeling something as unacceptable which is a strategy to help you do everything you can to avoid doing or being what you want to avoid, you can focus your efforts…
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Why does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) work?
CBT helps people uncover their anxiety-causing beliefs—the reasons why you think you should be anxious about something—so they can evaluate them and change them but knowing or “using” CBT isn’t enough. You or your mental health supporter(s) must be skilled enough to uncover anxiety-causing beliefs and thinking patterns that are often unconscious. Not everyone is…
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How to get what you want
Your views of how to get what you want may uknowningly be based on what you learned as a child or young adult. This puts you at risk of having views and understandings that aren’t optimal for your current age or the current societal times. In other cases, your point of view(s), could be an…
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The Anxiety Paradox – How We Uknowingly Make Ourselves Anxious
Research shows that humans use anxiety–often unconsciously–to benefit or protect themselves in some way. For example, you may use anxiety to motivate yourself to do something or prove that you don’t like something. In some cases, what you decide to be anxious about comes from what others say or what you observe others get anxious…
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What is a belief?
Definition: Something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion. Merriam-Webster Dictionary For example, believing the world is flat means a person thinks that’s true. To disagree with that assertion is to say you don’t think it’s true the world is flat: put another way, you don’t believe the world is…
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What is an anxiety trigger?
A trigger = something, that when encountered, we experience a physical anxiety/fight-or-flight response. Triggers can be anything. Example triggers: physical and non-physical objects like thoughts, people, aspects of yourself, emotions, events, memories, words, behaviors, actions, and impulses. We can be triggered by anything For example, we can be triggered by: what we see/hear/taste/touch, physical and…
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What is the unconscious?
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung Aspects of ourselves — like ways of thinking — that exist, but we’re unaware of. For example, someone can have unconscious reasons why they do certain things or think in certain ways. Furthermore, some of…