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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.

Anxious? Here is Help

July 21, 2014AnxietyAnxiety, Courage, Fear, fighting anxiety, fighting ocd, help for ocd, help with ocd, how to fight OCD, Obsessive–compulsive disorder, OCD, OCD and Anxiety, ocd anxiety, ocd fears, ocd help, ocd therapy, ocd tools, surviving anxiety, tools for anxiety, tools for coping with anxiety, tools for ocdGregory Sansone

Be brave, courageous. Let go of being in control and worrying about losing that edge. And go on anyway. That’s courage.

Try to sit with your anxiety. It’s the trying that’s important. The invasive thoughts will occur. Just keep trying to refocus on what you are reading, watching on TV, etc.

You will find out that you can go on in the face of the anxiety, that you will not “Lose your mind.”

Call fear and OCD’s bluff and discover if what you fear is true. Don’t believe anything. Don’t believe your thoughts. Find out if it is true through actions. No thoughts. Fear hates discovery and choice because it unveils the empty threat.

Anything you can do to interrupt the loop will start to create new neural pathways. This is when the hard-wiring that has been going on, because of the anxiety, will begin to stop.

This Week’s Insights

July 2, 2014Courage, Living Strong, OCD, Uncertaintybravery, facing ocd, fighting ocd, help for anxiety, help for ocd, how to fight OCD, OCD, ocd help, treatment for ocdGregory Sansone

The content of your obsession is irrelevant.

Go hard towards uncertainty with courage and wanting it. Don’t protect. Attack OCD’s territory.

Refuse to be comfortable or certain.

Accept and be willing to be influenced by the moment, environment, discomfort/pain.

Be awkward, clumsy, and uncertain. Our brains have to deal with variability: in environment, in movement, in life.

Insights into Fighting OCD

June 25, 2014Anxiety, Courage, Living Strong, OCDAnxiety, doubt, ERP, Exposure Response Prevention, Fear, fighting anxiety, fighting fear, fighting ocd, how to fight OCD, OCD, tolerating anxiety, tolerating fearGregory Sansone

“When you’re going through hell, keep moving.”

Before doing ERP – alter your mindset by ‘wanting anxiety’ and then act on that frame of reference as you engage in that feared situation.

Say to yourself “I can tolerate this happening. I want this to happen, I choose it – I really want it to keep happening – I win if it keeps happening!”

My job is to provoke more doubt, anxiety, and uncertainty than I think I can tolerate.

OCD & Certainty

June 13, 2014OCD, Uncertaintyadapting to change, Anxiety, certainty, dealing with change, dealing with uncertainty, fighting anxiety, fighting ocd, help for ocd, help with ocd, living a healthy life, needing certainty, needing order, needing safety, Obsessive–compulsive disorder, OCD, ocd therapy, ocd tools, OCD treatment, positive living, surviving anxiety, tools for anxietyGregory Sansone

OCD demands certainty in order for us to be safe and happy. In reality, listening to OCD guarantees us danger and misery.

In living a healthy life we don’t pursue perfect safety, rather, we commit our lives to growth and adapt to change.