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Written by James O. Henman, Ph.D.
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Your Anxiety/Panic Reactions Make Perfect Sense
James O. Henman, Ph.D.
This article builds on “Who’s REALLY Driving Your Emotional Bus During Anxiety Attacks?” posted on www.AnxietyClinics.com. The previous article explored the role of “Perceptual Filters” in feeding your anxiety and panic reactions. As strange as this may seem, once you begin to appreciate who is actually driving your emotional bus during times of stress, it does make perfect sense. The natural blocking of painful feelings and overwhelming experiences is what creates Adult Child characteristics, dynamically like the frozen scenes that continue to break through for trauma survivors when certain triggers are activated – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. This blocking causes part of your “self-perception” to be stuck in a timeless state, as if in Tupperware and hidden away, frozen in the original scenes. Current situations can activate these wounded parts in the present.
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Written by Benjamin Moss, C.HT.
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There are many different types of "sleep aids" available to help people sleep once they get to bed. But sometimes people don't know that they can improve the restfulness of their sleep by better preparing for sleep. Much like a home cooked meal tastes better and is more nutritous than a frozen entree, properly getting ready for bed can lead to a much better nights sleep than trying to switch from "day mode" to "sleep mode" in a couple of minutes.
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Written by Peter Strong
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When you really look closely at anxiety, depression, fear, anger or stress, you will almost always find recurring patterns of negative thoughts, traumatic memories and habitual emotional reactions. They are our tormentors, the pesky biting insects that annoy us throughout the day. They ambush our consciousness, pull us down and cause stress and emotional suffering. They come uninvited, cause havoc, and we wish that they would go away. If only we could control them, we would certainly have a better chance of controlling our mental state. So how do we do this? The practice of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation can provide a path forward.
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Written by Peter Strong
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Do you feel stuck and unable to get beyond anxiety, depression and traumatic memories? Do you feel a victim of your emotions?
Intense emotions resulting from childhood trauma, personal loss or a recent traumatic experience have a tendency to become stuck in the deep recesses of the mind where they continue to ferment and generate recurring anxiety and patterns of negative thinking. These core emotions can have a severe impact on the quality of our lives and our relationships. Core complexes contain emotional energy that has become trapped and frozen in place, unable to change and resolve, internal generators of suffering. We may be plagued by guilt or regret or a feeling of great hurt and inner wounding that just won't go away. We become victims of our inner emotions and prisoners of our conditioned habitual reactivity. These patterns of inner suffering become established as habitual patterns of reactivity that affect our thinking, our inner beliefs and perceptions of the world. The world is seen as a hostile place and we feel overwhelmed, fatigued, negative and empty.
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Written by Jennifer Diebel
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Ever seen that bumper sticker that says: Don’t believe everything you think? Or that quote: Don’t take yourself too seriously; no one else does? I’ve been thinking about these quotes recently in light of some things I’m learning about the brain. On one hand, I’m amazed at the brain’s ability to synthesize information and come up with assessments of situations that keep us alive and help us grow. As I work with hurting people and continue to mine the depths of my own thinking, though, I’m becoming more and more aware of ways in which our own minds fail to tell us the truth.
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Written by Benjamin Moss, C.HT.
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Procrastination is a common problem for students in high school and college. Frustrated parents often believe their child’s procrastination comes from laziness or lack of motivation. But this is not always case. In many cases, procrastination is the result of test anxiety.
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