Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It

“All anxiety is separation anxiety.”

In a state of conscious awareness, thoughts can appear and be observed simply as byproducts of the mind.

The ego is linked to a structure in the brain called the amygdala, as I said above is commonly referred to as the fear centre of the brain.

Anxiety is purely mind-based thinking of projections, expectations, stories, and thoughts of the future. Anxiety is a thinking process, not a feeling one.

Until then, we are at the mercy of the alarm-anxiety cycle—where the anxiety thinking in the mind feeds the alarm feeling in the body and the alarm feeling feeds back into more anxious thoughts.

Much of relieving anxious thoughts and worry is making the unconscious conscious.

Without the objective curiosity about our thoughts that conscious awareness brings, the mind unconsciously and automatically equates our thoughts (anxious or otherwise) with who we are.

without awareness, the mind makes an image of the future directly from the past, in a kind of unspoken “Don’t let this happen again” pattern.

The body has a regulating influence on the nervous system, but if we are bypassing the slow and grounding, present-moment wisdom of the body by constantly thinking speedy, future-based, anxious thoughts, how are we supposed to tap into the calming effect of the body?