10 Things don't know ANXIETY

 Here are 10 things you don’t know about anxiety:

1. Anxiety feeds on your thoughts and convinces you that your thoughts will save you —but your thoughts only make you more anxious! This keeps you trapped in your head and is the biggest lie of anxiety, that your thoughts will talk you out of it. The opposite is far more likely, your thoughts will talk you into more anxiety.
2. Anxiety is painless— that’s right, anxiety is only thoughts of the mind. What hurts is a state of ALARM in your body
3. Anxiety of the mind and ALARM of the body are connected but are VERY different. But Psychiatrists and psychologists treat it as the same thing, ie they do not separate them. Once you separate them you can start to heal.
4. Anxiety is ONLY anxious thoughts, they have no power to hurt you, unless you believe them. If I tell a patient she is pregnant she may become VERY anxious, but if I tell a male he is pregnant - there is no anxiety because there is NO belief.
5. Anxiety is not painful, what hurts is a state of ALARM in your body. Think the thought “I have a headache” - is that thought painful?- No, it is only a thought. Anxious thoughts are ONLY words strung together, they can only hurt you if you believe them, and that belief only creates pain by creating ALARM in the body.
6. Anxiety is “thought” to be a state of mind, but in reality, it is a state of body. Therefore the best way to treat it is by using the body, because you can’t beat anxious thoughts with more thinking. “You can’t beat thoughts on their own turf.”
7. “Anxiety” is a COMBINATION of anxious/fearful projections of the mind that, when believed, then activate the alarm in the body. When the alarm in the body is activated, this fearful physiological state creates more worries in the mind because the mind is a compulsive, meaning-making machine—when it senses the uncomfortable activation of alarm the body it creates equally uncomfortable thoughts in the mind to “make sense” of the painful feeling. A feedback loop is created where psychological anxious thoughts of the mind fuel the physiological alarm in the body and the physiological alarm in the body fuels the psychological anxious thoughts of the mind. I call this the “Anxiety-Alarm Cycle”.
8. “Anxiety” is out of control thinking and you can’t beat thinking with more thoughts, so logically, anxiety can only be treated by going into the ALARM in your body— to calm the only part of the cycle you CAN control. When you are “anxious” (BTW you should really call it “alarmed”) finding sensation in your body is the only way to break the Anxiety-Alarm Cycle, the only way to “get you out of your head”.
9. Anxiety and anxious thoughts are ALWAYS about the future, even if it is just 5 minutes from now. REALLY focusing on your breath, rubbing your fingertips together, touching your hand on your face or chest, or smelling an essential oil will bring you into the present moment. You can only FEEL in the NOW, not tomorrow—you are perfectly able to sense exactly how you feel at this exact moment, but you have no idea how you feel exactly twenty-four hours from right now. Make the intention to focus intently on sensation. As a result, the energy that was focused on powering the hamster wheel of scary thoughts at warp speed in your mind is now repurposed into FEELING in your body. Therefore, less energy remains to power the thoughts of the future, and energy goes to FEELING present moment sensation in the NOW. Win-Win.
10. Anxiety is healed by learning to create a safe place in your body, and disciplining yourself to consistently go there when you are stressed, instead of being seduced into more thinking. When you learn to change your focus from your hyperactive and hypervigilant mind and focus intently on the sensation in your body, you do three critical things (1) you starve the thoughts for energy as you attention is now on sensation and not rumination, (2) you teach your system to create a safe place in your body, and (3) you bring yourself into the present moment awareness, where future based thoughts and worries (ALL anxious thoughts are future-based) —have no grounding.
    
    Ref--Quara