To understand this we have to first understand what a belief is. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Harrison Obiorah (@harrisonobiorah) You may have heard the phrase, “Change your thinking, change your life.” Using the definition of “belief”, I put forward to you that this is just another way of saying, change …
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Harrison Obiorah (@harrisonobiorah) As someone who’s studied anxiety for the past 8 years to eliminate my own triggers, I believe we can answer this question with reason: Some of you may have had times when you thought of doing something and immediately felt physically anxious. The …
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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