Have you tried using CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in dealing with your anxiety?
Currently, with Coronavirus or Covid-19, there’s lots of anxiety in the world and most of us are using every tool we can find to somehow reduce our feelings of anxiousness.
If you are using CBT you may have noticed two small problems. 1) It works only when you work it. 2) When you are truly flooded it does not work very well at all.
Changing your thoughts does help when you are changing your thoughts. And when you are not thinking about your thoughts the old negative feelings and emotions of worry, fear, and doubt come rushing back.
And when your feelings are above a 3 or 4 on a scale of 10 trying to change your thoughts does not work at all. CBT is a good tool, with lots of wonderful research but it has limits, that happens when my thoughts are racing or even worse when my emotions are off the chart and I can’t even think straight.
Well, CBT only uses half of your thinking brain and there is another thinking process that goes untapped. What’s more, this other half of your thinking brain has much more power and influence over your emotions than all the words you can conger with CBT.
So if you have anxiety, and are only getting limited results out of using CBT, then stick around and learn a new way to your own cognitive processes to calm your feelings of anxiety.
We have created this new series called ANXIOUS, to address the anxieties that have been created by the corona virus.
I woke up in the morning and my anxiety was off the chart. Mornings are the worst. All night my emotional mind is flooding my body with dreams filled with fears. After a night of fighting formless monsters that live in the shadows. Escape eluded me for my legs would not move, and it was only my heart that would race.
And upon waking I was free of beasts which I could not escape, but the effects, the feelings of fear lived on in my body.
I wanted to do nothing, but to rid my body of those feelings. Yet, I could not. In that moment, it was easy for me to think about dreadful and horrible thoughts. Fears quickly consumed my thoughts. However, my thoughts were not the source of my feelings and therefore were not much help in changing my emotions.
Flooded with feeling my thoughts could not compete with the intensity of fear I would feel. “I am safe, it was all a dream.” It quelled my mind but not my heart. My thoughts were not a problem.
Or at times the thought, “I am safe, it was all a dream”, were words that calmed the storm for a moment. But as my thoughts drifted back to daily life my fears would inch their way back into my body.
I would try to be vigilant with my thoughts, never allowing negativity to crip in. But such diligence created an inwardness that produced the same self-absorption the fears formed.
Then I learned about Lucid dreams…