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Anxious Thinking

Paradoxical Attitude

Theory of Practice

Anticipatory Anxiety

I Want to Help you Overcome Your Anxiety:

There is a simple rule for beating anxiety. The rule is simple, but the correct way of applying that rule is difficult.

It takes persistence, discipline, and effort. But most of all, following the rule takes courage.

Why do I use the word courage? Because anxiety has one primary goal–it protects itself by getting you to run away from it.

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Anxiety is an excellent bluffer and trickster, and it is an expert in convincing you that there are good and valid reasons to avoid anxiety, when, in truth, no such reasons exist.

Here is the rule for beating anxiety:

Anxiety is maintained by avoidance.

To overcome anxiety, you have to move–in manageable steps–towards areas of greater discomfort.

Anxiety wants you to avoid its source. Every time you experience anxiety, you feel the desire to avoid.

When you resist this avoidance, your anxiety increa