Category: self-awareness

in anxiety, self-awareness, social anxiety

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),…

What is the Option Method

May 31, 2025

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in anxiety, emotions, self-awareness, social anxiety

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…

Why anxiety is caused by information in our brains

May 30, 2025

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in anxiety, emotions, self-awareness, social anxiety

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

May 30, 2025

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in anxiety, emotions, self-awareness, social anxiety

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

May 30, 2025

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in anxiety, self-awareness, social anxiety

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…

How to get what you want

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in self-awareness

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…

The Anxiety Paradox – How We Uknowingly Make Ourselves Anxious

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in anxiety, self-awareness

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…

What is a belief?

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in emotions, negative thoughts, self-awareness

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…

What is the unconscious?

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