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Anxiety – The Truth
Anxiety – The truth! The truth Anxiety can mimic the same symptoms as some medical conditions, like diabetes, hypertension, as well as hypotension so, I do recommend that you see your doctor as a precaution. The truth Anxiety comes from the Amygdala the seat of the flight, flight and freeze response Read more…
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Aging Gracefully and Anxiety
Does Anxiety have a negative impact on the ageing process? No one wants to get older but unfortunately, we all want to age gracefully, but until they discover an elixir of youth, it’s fairly unavoidable. But just because you have to get older, no one said you had to do Read more…
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How to Stop an Anxiety or Panic Attack Before it Hits
5 Simple Ways to Tame the Jinx or Noise Inside your Head Quite literally when you suffer from anxiety you think there is some alien body inside your head. It is not based on reality, it is quite simply there to confuse and irritate you. It is the endless noise Read more…
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Stress – Can it be Good for You?
In order to answer this question, you first have to understand the nature of stress and both the positive and sometimes negative impact it can have on the human psyche. Stress is the mind and body’s natural way of dealing with something it doesn’t normally have to deal with. For Read more…
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Covid-19 – Why can’t someone just calm down when they are having a panic/anxiety attack?
The main reason that you just can’t simply calm down when you are having a panic/anxiety attack is that the hormone adrenaline floods your body putting it into high alert and your heartbeat quickens which send more blood to your muscles. Your breathing also becomes more pronounced, fast and shallow, Read more…
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Covid-19 – What are the physiological differences between the symptoms of stress and anxiety?
Stress and anxiety are really one and the same, although stress can exacerbate anxious thoughts and feelings, especially when the mind is having to deal with something unprecedented like coronavirus and the uncertainty we are all facing and with it is bring about physiological symptoms like panic attacks, sweating, nausea, Read more…
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What is anxiety?
The famous psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung, Anxiety ‘fear spread thin’ – in other words, anxiety can be a fear of a number of different things, which your subconscious has kept buried, very often for many years. But, you can retrain your subconscious to work with you and not against you. Read more…
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Anxiety and your habitual subconscious mind.
You have two minds. Your critical conscious mind and your habitual subconscious. Your subconscious mind controls your anxious thoughts and feelings because it is quite simply what it is there to do. When you are suffering from anxiety your habitual subconscious is doing its job of keeping you safe and Read more…
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Stress and how you can overcome it.
The things you need to do if you’re feeling overwhelmed are the things which relax you and when you are relaxed and centred you can plan your week ahead of time and your stress will simply melt away. But, let’s not forget not all stress is negative. We can all Read more…