Using science and a real-life counseling session of mine you’ll see that we get anxious because we unknowingly or knowingly think we should be anxious about whatever we’re anxious about. Note: This article is not speaking on anxiety that has physiological causes like low blood sugar.
To be clear, anxious for no reason in this article means you think you’re body is triggering physical anxiety for reasons you can’t explain or aren’t aware of. Recognize that we get immediately anxious when we’re faced with what we genuinely think is a life-or-death situation. Doesn’t that show that we have the machinery to …
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Science has shown that physical anxiety is caused by our beliefs (what we think things mean, what we think is true about ourselves, things in the world, etc). But what does this really mean? Being able to honestly answer this question will likely help you completely see how to eliminate your anxiety triggers. Fortunately, we can answer …
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Harrison Obiorah (@harrisonobiorah) This video is a real-life example of what finding the root cause of a physical anxiety trigger looks like. Precisely speaking, the first step to eliminating an anxiety trigger is finding the reason(s)–which will be unique to you–why the trigger makes you anxious …
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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 …
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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. Share on FacebookTweetSave
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 …
