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  • How to Accept Anxiety

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    This insight can be one of the toughest pills to swallow because it means that there will be times when you get anxious/uncomfortable/nervous when you’d prefer not to. To understand why eliminating anxiety is an imperfect journey, read this article. The key to ensuring you don’t create additional anxiety triggers is to ok the fact that…

  • Personal Construct Psychology – Loaded Terms

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    What is a loaded term? When addressing the root cause of anxiety, you may find that you assume some words or phrases have universal definitions, but they don’t. For example, how you define intelligence may differ from how someone else defines intelligence or how someone in another country defines intelligence. At Clarity we call these…

  • What Does Social Anxiety Feel like

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    From the Anxiety and Depression Association of America: “The defining feature of social anxiety disorder, also called social phobia, is intense anxiety or fear of being judged, negatively evaluated, or rejected in a social or performance situation. People with social anxiety disorder may worry about acting or appearing visibly anxious (e.g., blushing, stumbling over words),…

  • How labeling something as unacceptable/not triggers anxiety

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    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…

  • What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

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    More than 2,000 studies have demonstrated that our thoughts and beliefs (which you can view as ingrained or “stored” thoughts) are one of, if not the primary root causes of our anxiety. Cognitive behavior therapies like CBT and the Option Method are based on this discovery.  CBT is based on the psychological construct that individuals’…

  • What is the Option Method

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    What is the Option Method? The Option Method is a proven questioning technique for eliminating negative emotions created decades ago by a therapist, Bruce Di Marsico; typically done in a 1-on-1 session with a practitioner, the Option Method will help you uncover unconscious beliefs and leave you not only more self-aware but more happier. We define happiness as…

  • How to control anxiety

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    The answer Behind this question is the probable desire to prevent yourself from being triggered when you don’t want to be. Here’s what you have to do: Recognize that you currently have a particular way of thinking and beliefs–a way of being. Because of this current state of beliefs and thinking, there are certain stimuli/triggers…

  • Why anxiety is caused by information in our brains

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    Our brains have the ability to store information. Neuroscience has shown that our brains have the ability to store information. For example, if we’ve never seen a tennis ball, we may be unable to identify one. However, after learning what a tennis ball is, we’ll be able to recognize tennis balls for the rest of…

  • Why Am I So Anxious For No Reason

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    This is a 2 part question: Why you get anxious so much Remember that you don’t experience anxiety until you encounter or think about something that triggers you. If you think someone experiences less anxiety than us, what you’re really saying is they have little to no triggers.  Example One person could have 500 triggers,…

  • Why It Feels Like We Get Anxious for No Reason

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    To be clear, anxious for no reason in this article means you think you’re body is triggering physical anxiety for no reason, reasons you can’t explain, or reasons you aren’t aware of. Recognize that we (humans) get immediately anxious when we’re faced with what we genuinely think is a life-or-death situation. Doesn’t that show that…