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Inaction

April 14, 2015Living Strongacceptance, adapting to change, Anguish, Anxiety, awareness, battling depression, bravery, certainty, Cognitive therapy, coping with anxiety, coping with panic, Courage, crazy, dealing with anxiety, dealing with change, dealing with fear, dealing with life, dealing with uncertainty, Depression, doubt, ERP, exercise and depression, Exposure Response Prevention, Exposures, extreme anxiety, facing ocd, Fear, fighting anxiety, fighting depression, fighting fear, fighting ocd, freedom, giving up, Gregory Sansone, help for anxiety, help for ocd, holding on, how to conquer laziness, how to face your fears, how to fight depression, how to fight OCDGregory Sansone

MOVE……..unless you are dead. Otherwise, no excuse. You don’t have to wait until you are in a good mood before you move. You don’t have to feel good about moving before you move. You don’t even have to know what you are gonna do before you move to move. All you have to do is move. Yes, even when you are angry, vulnerable, weak, lost, confused, down, or 100% non motivated. None of those things are required to move. To move you only have to what? And then see what goes from there.

Presence

April 6, 2015Living Strongacceptance, adapting to change, Anguish, Anxiety, awareness, battling depression, bravery, certainty, Cognitive therapy, contamination, coping with anxiety, coping with panic, Courage, crazy, dealing with anxiety, dealing with change, dealing with fear, dealing with life, dealing with uncertainty, Depression, doubt, ERP, exercise and depression, Exposure Response Prevention, Exposures, extreme anxiety, facing ocd, Fear, fighting anxiety, fighting depression, fighting fear, fighting ocd, freedom, giving up, Gregg Sansone, Gregory Sansone, help for anxiety, help for ocd, help with ocd, holding on, how to face your fears, how to fight depression, how to fight OCD, how to handle anxiety, how to handle panic, inspiration, inspirational quote, intrusive thoughts, living a healthy lifeGregory Sansone

Fall in love with no resistance to what is and watch what happens. This isn’t to imply that you never do anything about it.

Action

July 14, 2014Living Strongacceptance, adapting to change, Anguish, Anxiety, awareness, battling depression, bravery, certainty, checking, Cognitive therapy, contamination, coping with anxiety, coping with panic, Courage, crazy, dealing with anxiety, dealing with change, dealing with fear, dealing with life, dealing with uncertainty, Depression, doubt, ERP, exercise and depression, Exposure Response Prevention, how to conquer lazinessGregory Sansone

If Laziness did not exist,

what would I do today?

What to Do When You Feel Panicky

June 29, 2014Anxiety, Courage, Living StrongAnxiety, coping with anxiety, coping with panic, dealing with anxiety, dealing with fear, how to handle anxiety, how to handle panic, Panic, treatment for anxietyGregory Sansone

(Objectify, quantify, assess, & duration)

1) Describe the sensation/experience. What do you feel? – Heart, lungs, muscles,… which muscles feel tense? Create an analogy, i.e. ‘my stomach feels like someone is twisting a towel’, ‘the pain in my head feels like someone is driving a spike through it.’

2) Measure the intensity on a 1-10 scale. Rate the level of anxiety.

3) Honestly ask yourself, can I stand this?…do I have room in my life to experience this right now. Recognize your choices. Willingly enduring the anxiety without bailing out or bailing out and seeking relief.

4) If you decide to endure it, pick a period of time like 10 minutes. If you choose not to endure the feeling, try breath exercises or muscle relaxation or focus attention on an object outside of your body. If it’s not worth the struggle to be tolerant, bail out anyway. That is still available to you.

5) Challenge the experience to get worse. Dare the anxiety to increase.

If any of you try this, I’d like to hear how it worked or didn’t work for you.Let me know.