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

Anxiety is a thinking process of the mind.

2. There are anxious thoughts created by the mind. The mind is a meaning-making, make-sense machine.

Anxiety is an endless feedback loop of painful feeling in the body and anxious thinking in the mind.

Once I realized this, I started to describe my character as sensitive and powerful versus anxious and weak.

I will show you how to see your pain so you don’t have to be your pain.

What we call anxiety is a combination of an alarm state in the body and anxious thoughts in 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.

doing nothing, other than holding the thoughts in non-emotional, conscious curiosity in the present moment, is actually the best reaction to worrisome thoughts.

1. There is a sense of alarm that occurs outside of the brain. This fight-or-flight sensation is the remnant of old, unresolved trauma we suffered, typically in childhood. It is usually felt in the midline of the body around the heart. I’ll talk about this alarm in great detail in Part