Today’s post continues with strategies for reducing stronger anxiety and strong emotions as well. Try this: 1.Notice that you have anxiety or a specific feeling by naming it 2.Identify where you notice the anxiety or the feeling in the body and how strong it is on a scale 1 = barely noticeable to 10 =…
Last weeks’ posts have been about how you directly can improve your self-esteem through getting to know yourself. The posts have been about the importance of writing a daily diary about what you stand for, what matters to you, what you are experiencing, thinking and feeling as well as 3 small or big things…
As mentioned in the last weeks’ posts, there are several views of the cause of anxiety which have different implications for how to treat anxiety. In Cognitive behavioural therapy, CBT, the common view is that anxiety is triggered by anxiety inducing thoughts concerning various fears. Psychodynamic therapy views anxiety as symptoms of stress and strong…
The posts of last weeks have been about our relationship pattern which affects our ability to take care of and calm our emotions as well as impacts our self-worth. This connection is to a large extent based on childhood experiences which also impacts our expectations of to what degree we can depend on and…
As mentioned in the last weeks’ posts, there are several views of the cause of anxiety which have different implications for how to treat anxiety. In Cognitive behavioural therapy, CBT, the common view is that anxiety is triggered by anxiety inducing thoughts concerning various fears. Psychodynamic therapy views anxiety as symptoms of stress…
As mentioned in the last weeks’ posts, there are several views of the cause of anxiety which have different implications for how to treat anxiety. In Cognitive behavioural therapy, CBT, the common view is that anxiety is triggered by anxiety inducing thoughts concerning various fears. There is another school of thought that views…
Here continues a summary of my posts on how to recover as quickly as possible from stress and exhaustion. In my daily work with people who have sought help for problems with stress and fatigue, I have been able to distinguish 3 building blocks in stress management: 1) Regulate your stress level, se techniques in…
Last week’s posts was about the similarities between sense of coherence and the serenity prayer. I will continue with inspirational quotes. Steve Jobs, who was one of the founders of Apple, made a famous speech to the graduating students of Stanford in 2005. The speech reminds us of our limited time on…
Last week’s post was about different possible causes for anxiety. In Cognitive behavioural therapy, CBT the common view is that anxiety is triggered by anxiety inducing thoughts about the fear of experiencing different kinds of real or perceived dangers. There is another school of thought that views anxiety as symptoms of stress and strong mixed…