SOCIETY OF ANXIETY
What is it?
Where does it
come from?
Why do I have it?
How do I resolve it?
Anxiety is something everyone experiences at one time or
another. It is the byproduct of the Flight or Fight primal reaction to
fear. And, we are born with the primal feeling of instinctual fear of the
unknown. It's our safety net to make us stop, look and listen before we
act. And, when we are children, everything is the unknown except for the scent
of our mother. Smell is the first sense developed. A newborn can
distinguish it's mother from all others by her smell.
Needless to say, a vast majority of us begin life because
we were never bonded to our mother or another parental role model. Even
those who were first bonded, most often lost that connection due to
circumstances beyond their control leaving them with abandonment issues.
The list goes on with scenarios that prevented us from being safely and securely
attached to a parental role model.
We began to experience life feeling unsafe. This
feeling causes a millisecond Fight or
Flight re-action which is how
our body responds to fear. In the early development of humans, this was
what saved us from being eaten by the tiger lurking in the bushes. When we
sensed danger, we re-acted by either Fleeing (Flight) or Fighting to save our
Self. So the primal survival instinct was essential to survival of
mankind.
When we feel fear, the body produces a chemical called
adrenalin to create the Flight or Fight reaction . Our body begins to pump
this into our muscles to make them react to the situation and save our
Self. The problem is, over time and the dawn of civilization, we no longer
have to fear the "tiger in the bush" for our safety. But, the
body still operates with this primitive instinct. Now, the danger
has changed substantially while our body's instinct to keep us safe is still in
full force. The problem lies in the fear of the unknown. And with
the changes in our environment, we have created so much stress that the
body is constantly feeling unconscious fear from situations at work,
driving, home, relationships, and the list of unsafe feelings goes on.
Early on, we used up that adrenalin when we fought or
fled. Each was an activity that used the muscles and depleted the
adrenalin. But with our life-style changes, we no longer have the options
to fight or flee so the adrenalin gets stored in the muscles of our body. The
build up of this chemical produces a feeling we call ANXIETY. We are now a
Society of Anxiety.
The concern with this is that most of us began to pump
adrenalin in our early childhood years and have been creating it since.
Guess what that makes us? Pavlov's dogs, creating adrenalin now at the
just the thought of something new. We've become adrenalin junkies
...addicted to CHAOS in order to get our fix. Now, we move from one
unstable situation to another in order to get our unconscious fix. Our
life-creating pattern of behavior that is grooved into our brain, our ego, is
one of unconsciously seeking our unsettling situations so our body can get its
fix of adrenalin.
HOW DO WE FIX IT? It is a process. The 7 Steps in
Take Back Your Power! teach you how to recreate the safety within that you lost
in your childhood. They teach you how to release the stored adrenalin in
your muscles so you can learn how to feel a sense of well-being. They
teach you how to recover your spirited Self, to uncover the beliefs inhibiting
your Spirit so you can be free to BE, to be "ME." It
is a process. We learn more quickly in a group setting. I use the
workbook in my group settings which has been proven in so many venues to be more
conducive to healing than one on one therapy. ORDER
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