A trigger = something, that when encountered, we experience a physical anxiety/fight-or-flight response. Triggers can be anything Examples: physical and non-physical objects like thoughts, people, aspects of yourself, emotions, events, memories, words, behaviors, actions, and impulses.
Although I believe that improving your anxiety and mental health has inherent benefits like more internal peace, I do what I do so people can also become forces. A force is someone who lives in alignment with who they are. By this, I mean they know their likes, dislikes, and the problems they truly care …
Link to the session where I found the root cause of the anxiety trigger I presented in the video A condensed summary with key takeaways of the sessions is here. The full audio of the session can be found here. https://youtu.be/2t98uGW0Gfc What I mean by unconscious Things that exist–especially aspects of ourselves–that we are not …
For example, we can be triggered by: what we see/hear/taste/touch, physical and non-physical objects like people, yourself, thoughts, ideas, events, memories, places, words, impulses, and emotions. I encourage you to validate this statement with your own life experience.
The Option Method is a system of five questions applied in a Socratic dialogue, created by Bruce Di Marsico, to help people find and eliminate the root cause of their undesirable emotions. This is a more verbose transcript of Bruce’s description of the Option Method. Heads up: Those unfamiliar with this work may get confused …
This is an excerpt from one of Bruce Di Marsico’s lectures, in which he explained how beliefs affect our feelings. This perspective explains what causes our anxiety. Bruce created a form of CBT based on the Socratic dialogue called the Option Method that gives clear insight into what causes our negative emotions like anxiety.
People can get anxious about the same things but each person has their own unique reasons why. The video below illustrates this. The video is inspired by a talk Bruce Di Marsico gave where he used a similar example to demonstrate how beliefs affect and give rise to our emotions. Bruce created the Option Method …
See if this definition I’m putting forward makes sense to you. It’s made sense for me and helped me better understand what people mean when they talk about trauma either personally or generally. Trauma is the worldviews, beliefs, and behaviors we create or develop after an event. Harrison Obiorah I think this definition holds for …
More than 2,000 studies have demonstrated that our thoughts and beliefs (which we can view as ingrained or “stored” thoughts) are one of, if not the primary root causes of our anxiety. Cognitive behavior therapies like CBT and the Option Method are based on this discovery. CBT is based on the psychological construct that individuals’ …
Note: These individuals also believe that all negative emotions are caused by beliefs (often unconscious). There are probably more people that share this perspective but these people come readily to my mind. Marcus Aurelius has stated that it isn’t external things and events that upset us but rather our judgments about those things. I argue …
