I’ve had some success overcoming everyday fears by trying to be courageous in my thoughts and actions. For me it works better than trying to think my way out of feeling afraid. But I never had chronic anxiety and don’t know if that approach would work there—have people tried it?
I have also found this but I found that it created technical debt in my brain. For instance doing this with social anxiety just led me to a constant low level of social anxiety that I was always suppressing by being courageous. This led me to come up with other excuses to not socialize so that I didn’t have to be courageous.
Courage is really important to me, too. But I don’t even remember to try courage if I’m an anxiety trance. It’s hard to direct courage at diffuse feelings. Identifying “threats” when I can makes applying courage more possible.
Why? It just points to a different discourse. You get plenty of hits when you google “anxiety trance”. It’s not language I would expect in a scientific publication but conceptualization I would expect to find in NLP/hypnosis discourse.
I’ve had some success overcoming everyday fears by trying to be courageous in my thoughts and actions. For me it works better than trying to think my way out of feeling afraid. But I never had chronic anxiety and don’t know if that approach would work there—have people tried it?
I have also found this but I found that it created technical debt in my brain. For instance doing this with social anxiety just led me to a constant low level of social anxiety that I was always suppressing by being courageous. This led me to come up with other excuses to not socialize so that I didn’t have to be courageous.
Courage is really important to me, too. But I don’t even remember to try courage if I’m an anxiety trance. It’s hard to direct courage at diffuse feelings. Identifying “threats” when I can makes applying courage more possible.
The word “state” might be more helpful than the word “trance” for researching relevant information and resources.
Yeah, I doubt you’ll find “trance” in the literature, but that’s what I meant so that’s what I said.
Why? It just points to a different discourse. You get plenty of hits when you google “anxiety trance”. It’s not language I would expect in a scientific publication but conceptualization I would expect to find in NLP/hypnosis discourse.