Unthreading Anxiety

You're reading Unthreading Anxiety, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. I was born in the middle of a war zone. One of my earliest memories is of a bomb falling near our house on an otherwise quiet day. So wholly unexpected it freaked the hell out of me. And this is how my friendship with anxiety was born. I went through life having a sensibly over-alert nervous system trying to keep me alive, even long after the war was over. In medical terms you might call this PTSD or generalized anxiety, I personally don't identify with those concepts at all. I don't see my being or experience in the world as pathological or requiring medical intervention. This is true for me, but it may not be true for others. I'm not opposed to psychiatry or medical interventions. It has simply been my experience that through the gift of anxiety I developed a precious skill: which is how to impact my own physiology with my consciousness, my breathing and my thinking. Over the years I've come to think very methodically about how to unravel every thread that makes anxiety possible. And these are the considerations I've found most helpful in changing my brain, my mind and my experience. 1) Say YES to your experience. I learned this from Buddhism, but you'll also find the same technique being taught to Trauma patients as the acronym R.A.I.N (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nourish). You ...
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