Lootje said:

I think the most dangerous thing you can do is accepting that this is just a part of you.

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Duncan Rowhl said:

Lootje said:

I think the most dangerous thing you can do is accepting that this is just a part of you.

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Why?

Rain is of the earth.  It is not the earth.

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MarkostheGnostic said:

I have studied anxiety from Kierkegaard to Thomas C. Oden through three academic degree programs and even decades after I completed a PhD. Anxiety seems to be my own particular existential malaise (not guilt, shame, regret, boredom, or some other existential problem). I have a Meso-Ectomorphic body type according to W.H. Sheldon's Constitutional Psychology and a mostly Cerebrotonic temperament that corresponds to the Ectomorphic component. My mother was fairly histrionic and anxious. Yet, after maybe a decade between 15 and 25, I pretty much stopped using hashish which was plentiful in the 1970s (even if my money to purchase it wasn't), and have gone for many years without any cannabis at all. I never took to drink or pills, but worked through my own tendency toward anxiety and its concomitant pessimism on my own. I routinely include 100 mg of L-Theanine in my daily supplements. If I'm having a particularly bad day (rare), I'll add 500 mg of L-Taurine.

I have treated anxiety as a board certified clinical hypnotherapist for years, decades actually, and aside from a constitutional tendency as mentioned above, it is my contention that we are not completely determined by such psychophysical contours. Anxiety is probably the most common complaint from prospective clients and in my experience it results from unresolved traumas dating back a few months to a few decades. Once the trauma is resolved using Age Regression and some reliable techniques, the anxiety, a major symptom, vanishes. That does not mean that new anxiety provoking situations will not result in feelings of anxiety, but the chronic and sometimes disabling anxiety that is tied to the unresolved trauma and running like computer malware in the background will disappear. Anxiety is a form of suffering and suffering is an obstacle to normal healthy functioning. It is never a characteristic of who or what one intrinsically is. Buddhist Abhidharma psychology would back me up in this assertion.

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redgreenvines said:

That's it
practice relaxing.
first lying down,
then sitting,
then walking,
learn to restart the relaxing process after distraction.


eventually relax in the face of what you like
then relax in the face of what you feel neutral about,
then begin practicing relaxing while thinking about something that you do not like.
keep the relaxation going until you can thing of everything and still be relaxed.


At some point in the future you may naturally think of traumas while relaxing or you can regain your relaxation when you notice you are addressing the most difficult things.

At that point your mind will be more healthy than most.

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