| n desire is to be happy, and when we move away | | | | even though you don't. |
| from it, we experience fear. | | | | How do we run from this vicious cycle? |
| Fear stems right back from when humans were first | | | | Here is what I did 20 years ago and I have never |
| created/formed (lets leave religion out of this one). | | | | since suffered from any serious mood disorder. |
| Humans are pre programmed to experience fear. | | | | I would become very aware of my mood swings and |
| If we came face to face with a lion on our way to | | | | anxiety. I became aware of my body, to the point |
| work (example, lol) fear would cause us to react and | | | | where I thought I had cancer, a heart attack, liver |
| seek safety. Without fear we would ignore the lion, | | | | failure, lung cancer and other things. I was living in a |
| thinking it's safe, and get killed. | | | | constant nightmare. |
| We think, "Will I be able to pick up my daughter | | | | An amazing thing happened when I made my |
| from school on time?" or "Will I have enough money | | | | unconscious behavior conscious. I could not take my |
| to go shopping tomorrow?" or "Will my daughter | | | | mood shifts seriously. |
| continue with her swimming after her broken leg?" or | | | | This is what I seen from that experience: when you |
| "Is my wife going to leave after the argument we | | | | are able to watch yourself over the course of a |
| had last night?" | | | | several days, you grow a curious detachment. |
| These sort of questions help prepare our brains for | | | | A paradoxical situation developed for me: I found it |
| possible danger. | | | | hard to stay worried and down when I was |
| Anxiety is when we think to much, and usually make | | | | observing myself feeling anxious and depressed. |
| a normal situation a dangerous one. | | | | Ultimately, anxiety and depression are |
| Anxiety does nothing to help us make the future any | | | | culturally-induced patterns of thinking that can be |
| better. It weakens and exhausts the body so much | | | | overcome through a deliberate cultivation of |
| that we often feel ill for a long time afterwards. Most | | | | awareness. When you become your own observer, |
| anxiety sufferers worry about what they cannot | | | | you weed out the unconscious habits that afflict you. |
| control. Over worrying about starting a new job will | | | | Billions of dollars are invested in developing drugs to |
| not make your first day any better, it will make the | | | | cure anxiety, but drugs will never be the cure. Living |
| day worse. In the worst case, it will make you not | | | | the rest of your life on medication is not fun. There |
| want to start the job and thus you lose an income. | | | | is a way out and the cure is pretty simple once you |
| Whilst there is no proof anxiety causes any damage | | | | learn. |
| to our bodies, if your think about it, it's not doing the | | | | I studied everything I know from a book called Panic |
| body any good. It's putting strain on the heart, and | | | | Away. It's in all likelihood the only book in the world |
| muscles in the body. A panic attack, whether it be | | | | that goes into extreme detail about anxiety and how |
| big or small will make you tense, even if you don't | | | | to cure it. The best thing for me was I was able to |
| realize it. | | | | stop taking the medication from my doctor and |
| When anxiety--a fear of an event in the future--is | | | | continue on a normal life. |
| high enough then you feel a deep sense of | | | | I have to give this book a lot of credit, because |
| helplessness. This, in turn, translates into depression. | | | | without it I would still be stuck in the same whole. My |
| You even begin to view the past as disappointing. | | | | doctor was so amazed with my progression that he's |
| When you start to think of yourself and your life as | | | | actually using my case as a case study for other |
| helpless you start to create a pattern of emotions | | | | patients. I wish somebody had told me about this |
| that lead to other mood disorders. You can even | | | | book a long time ago. Check out the book. |
| start to believe you have another illness or disorder - | | | | |