Mindful Awareness Understanding the triggers of anxiety or past trauma, helps in bringing mindful awareness to our own experience of the situation at hand. By bringing more presence to the current moment, we step out of the role of doer into the observer. With that in mind, we next see…
As per Dr Jeffrey Schwartz, in his book, “Brain Lock”, he outlines a 4 step self-treatment method to consciously review one’s thoughts as a mindful observer to relabel. Then trying to reattribute one’s thoughts as part of their medical condition of OCD to separate themselves as a person away from…
Emotional Regulation: Setting up small achievable goals that feel like they are within the reach until the larger long term goal becomes more apparent in sight. This is how I alleviate my anxiety around the future or uncertainty in general. Making smaller steps to achieve the near term goals feels…
Meeting with people especially strangers makes me want to run freely in open spaces. However when I end up doing it, it feels liberating and rewarding. So as, to feel the experience of a genuine smile or laugh shared. That is worth putting myself through the social awkwardness and let…
Forming Narratives around Emotional Experiences Taking the notation that each one’s subjective experience is unique to their own experience as explicitly described through the subjective in the phrase, makes me believe that my truth is my truth and none else. It maybe conceivable to someone else who has had a…
Test Anxiety As far as I have confronted anxiety in my life, I believe it has been all my life since the time I can remember my childhood. Especially test or exam anxiety. The only way is through is slightly overrated. I have several times succumbed to giving into the…