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What Causes Your Anxiety?
Your Best Anxiety Solution
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What Causes Your Negative Thoughts, Self Doubts,
Fears, Stress,
&
Other Nasty Anxieties?
Before I get into the nuts and bolts of the
techniques used in this course,
I'd like to explain
some of
the underlying causes
(and consequences)
of your
negative thoughts and
feelings.
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Have
you ever realized that all of your "emotional trash"
(i.e. your fears,
worries, trauma, self doubts, negative thoughts, guilt,
shame, insecurities, and others)
comes directly from feeling...
EXCESSIVE STRESS?
Throughout history,
excessive stress has become an extremely complex problem for
people.
A problem that has been nearly impossible for most
people to overcome. Not only can it
affect your mental self,
but literally every
area of your being, including your physical self,
as well.
The negative effects of excessive stress and anxiety
actually possess the innate
ability to disrupt, and even
adversely reroute the intricate electrical-circuitry of your
brain.
Now you're probably
thinking..."That
CAN'T be a good thing!"
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Well then,
how would you like to hear some high praise for the
awesome power
of NEGATIVE
thinking?
While the popular
expression, "We
are what we eat"
certainly makes a great deal of sense...
Think about it, if you normally eat a healthy diet, then
your body will be healthier over
the long term.
However, if you eat nothing but junk food everyday, then
your body will
basically become
"junk"
as well, right?
It is equally accurate to say
"Your self-image becomes
what you say and think
about yourself."
This simply means that if you routinely put yourself
down with negative self-talk
(the
things you say and
think about yourself),
then what else would you expect to believe
and feel
about yourself?
You're inevitably going to possess a very negative image
of
yourself. Wouldn't you agree?
Think of it this way...if you replaced the vital parts
in a sports car with poor
quality parts, would you then
expect that car to run perfectly - forever?
It's NOT
going to happen, is it?
The low quality parts will likely fail long before
top quality parts would.
Your body
and mind work in very much the same way...it's
"garbage
in -- garbage out."
If we are constantly thinking and feeling negatively,
then our body will break down
and deteriorate, as well.
That's because your subconscious mind......
AUTOMATICALLY BELIEVES EVERYTHING YOU SAY OR THINK!
And, thus your body automatically RESPONDS to
literally everything you say or think!
That's where negative emotions come from.
Emotions are nothing more than the body's way of
expressing whatever thoughts you are
thinking in your
brain.
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Here's what renowned Physicist and Psychologist, Buryl
Payne, Ph.D.,
writes on this subject:
"We know
that thoughts generated in the brain activate
secretions, and stimulate other
nerve centers in the
body. Thoughts, coded as neural impulses, travel along
nerve axons,
activating muscles and glands similar to
the manner in which telephone messages travel
over wires
in the form of electrical signals.
Experiments with the GSR (a biofeedback instrument) attached to fingers and
toes clearly
demonstrate that mental activity reaches
into the extremities of the body."
"With sensitive EMG (electro-myography) instruments, we
can show that muscles are
activated when we think
about anything involving action or emotion, even though
there
may be no visible movement. Although we do not
know how thoughts are generated in the
brain, it seems
clear that once present, thoughts are amplified by the
brain and turned into
actions.
Every thought we think influences the atoms, molecules,
and cells throughout the body.
Besides this
straightforward effect on the physical body, we know
from general principles
of physics that any acceleration
of electrons produces some electromagnetic radiation."
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To help
illustrate Dr. Payne's point, I'd like you to try this
simple experiment:
Stand up straight,
and start repeating the words "NO,
I CAN'T" -
out loud
- for one full minute:
No, I
can't
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No, I can't
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No, I can't
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No, I can't
-
No, I can't...
Just
keep repeating that - over and over and over -- for one
minute!
After
continuously repeating that phrase, notice how your body
feels at this
moment?
Do you feel a little bit off balance? Do you feel any
tightness or nervousness in your chest,
or anywhere
else? That lack of balance and tension you're likely
feeling is a direct result of
your negative words
immediately affecting your physiology. Also, do you feel
any less
optimistic now than you did before? This is a
very common consequence of routinely
repeating negative
thoughts and comments to yourself.
Can you see how powerfully your negative words tend to
adversely affect
your body?
Now,
try this:
Stand up straight,
and start repeating
the words "YES,
I CAN"
OUT LOUD
for one full minute:
YES,
I CAN
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YES, I CAN
-
YES, I CAN
-
YES, I CAN
-
YES, I CAN...
And
so on -- for one minute.
Now, can you distinguish a difference in
how your body feels after saying something
positive?
That's how much of an effect maintaining a positive
self-talk can have on you!
Now
I will
point out some important facts about what actually
happens in your
brain
whenever you feel any fear or anger...
Fear causes a flood of harmful, toxic stress hormones
that actually change the neuro-
functional operation of
the brain. Whenever we feel fearful, these stress
hormones
squeeze the blood vessels of the fore-brain
closed. It is this fore-brain (the orbitofrontal
cerebral cortex) that gives us our intelligence, our
conscious reasoning, as well as our
ability to think
logically.
But as a result of the blood vessels being closed in the
front, this forces the blood back
to the very primitive
hind-brain (the reptilian brain), where we operate from
a strictly
REACTIVE behavior which is NOT considered
LOGICAL THINKING at all...it is merely
the irrational
reactive stimulus responding to our stressful fears and
worries.
Therefore, as we become more engaged in fear, our
thinking also becomes less and less
logical, and more
and more defensive. This "switch into survival mode"
causes the brain
to flood the body with the stress
hormones, adrenalin and cortisol, thus instinctively
activating the 'Fight-or-Flight' response throughout the
entire nervous system
(more on
this later).
You see, what
I've just described is what happens when you experience
any
kind of fear, worry, or anger. And, if this is
happening to you just as you at a
critical time, just
when you need to be at your best, then your chances of
performing at 100% are severely diminished right from
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Okay, but what direct effect does all of this excessive
stress actually have on
the human body?
As I've stated
earlier, all of your emotional trash
such as anxiety, fears,
worries,
negative thoughts, mental blocks, insecurities,
etc. comes directly from
feeling...
EXCESSIVE
STRESS! And, all negative emotions are held within the
cells of your body.
Here's a brief lesson
into the underlying bio-chemical structures of the human
body,
and how negative thoughts
and fears affect you
EVERY day of your life...(yes,
this
actually IS kind of important)
Whenever you
have any kind of negative experience or traumatic event,
such as a
painful injury, or even just
having a negative
thought or feeling, a certain part of the
brain known as
the hypothalamus releases a cascade of short-chain amino
acid
chemicals, called peptides. These peptides are the
chemicals that are responsible for
ALL
of our
sensations, (yes, even pain). They also make up all 72
of our known
emotions. Therefore, all of your emotions
and feelings are essentially nothing more
than different
combinations of chemicals within your body.
The peptides dock with the trillions of cell receptor
sites, and cut off the absorption of
vital nutrients to
the cells...eventually causing the cells to become
PERMANENTLY
infected with the implanted memories of
those negative emotions. Then, when new
cells are
created, they are already infected with those NEGATIVE
emotions instead of
the growing strong with the positive
building blocks that are necessary for maintaining
a
healthy body and mind.
Due to this consistently negative cellular environment,
the body is constantly creating
unhealthy, mostly
worthless, cells that are directly contributing to all
sorts of nasty
ailments, as well as dramatically slowing
the recovery of injuries and illnesses!
These worthless
cells are also the primary contributors to recurring
negative emotions
and excessive stress and anxiety!
Of course,
it's accurate to say that, unless we're sedated 24 hours
a day, everybody
experiences some anxiety and stress in
their lives.
We simply cannot avoid it, entirely.
Stressful
situations will always arise, and nothing we do can
prevent stress, completely.
Granted, some anxiety does come from having stressful
things going on in our lives.
But that's not typically
enough anxiety to directly cause our emotional trash.
It's when you experience EXCESSIVE anxiety from being
exposed to something that
frightens you, and then
DWELLING on it which causes a dramatic negative
subconscious jolt,
much like an "electric shock" to take place throughout
your ENTIRE
autonomic nervous system.
It's that shaky stressful
feeling you get whenever you become intensely afraid
of
something.
Plus, if
that is not bad enough, EVERY TIME a negative thought
goes through your mind,
you cause additional destructive
shocks to your nervous system...thus building up and
reinforcing the powerful anxiety triggers in your brain
- over and over again. Therefore,
it becomes far easier
for you to receive those shocks from future
recurrences
of negative
thoughts. In other words...every
negative thought you think actually causes
additional
negative feelings in your body.
Here
is a
good
analogy for explaining how these shocks to the nervous
system affect us:
What do you think would happen...if you were to remove
the front panel from an
electrical breaker-box in your
home, and, with the power left ON, you start poking
around among inside with a screwdriver?
Eventually, you would likely get
ZAPPED
by
an electric shock, right?
And of course, it is just as likely that you would
disrupt the
electricity flowing through the electrical
system inside. This resulting "electrical
system
disruption" can cause power outages in your
home.
Well, the human body also has a similar system of
electrical signal pathways, known as
nerves, that
actually work very much like the electronics inside the
breaker-box (only
far
more complex).
Whenever we have a negative
thought, our body's nervous
system
receives a similar type of "SHOCK" from it.
Believe it
or not, EVERY ONE of these neuro-electrical shocks to
your nervous
system actually triggers your fight or
flight response!
These shocks, in turn, cause the intense emotional
anguish (emotional trash) you feel
whenever you think
about that negative experience or fear. Hence, every
time you think
a negative thought, or whenever you
remember any aspects about a negative experience
you've
had, your nervous system receives another shock, which
triggers your fight or
flight response, yet again!
It is due to
these repeated neuro-electrical shocks to your nervous
system that your
"FIGHT or FLIGHT" response
is being
automatically activated over and over and over.
For thousands of years, our internal fight or flight
response has saved our ancestors from
countless
life-threatening situations, such as being chased by
predators.
However,
since you are constantly being bombarded with stress and
anxiety,
your brain does not always know when it is safe
to "switch off" your fight or
flight alert mode.
Therefore, your body
and mind can
subtly remain stuck
in the fight or flight
mode -- without you even
realizing it.
And that is definitely
NOT
a good thing!
You
see, your internal fight or flight response, which can
help to save your life
when you are confronted with
a
life or death situation,
can also remain
switched ON
AT ALL TIMES!
This same fight or flight response is also responsible,
to some degree, for the
ongoing
emotional trash
that human beings deal with, everyday!!
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Did you know
that your fight or flight response can actually be
triggered by merely
thinking about, imagining, or
remembering something that frightens you?
Here I will
illustrate how your negative thoughts, worries, fears
and self doubts can
compound the shocks to your nervous
system, thus activating your fight or flight
response--
many times over...
Have you ever seen somebody who was extremely afraid of
heights? Or, maybe they
had an intense fear of public
speaking? Frequently, this person wouldn't even NEED to
go up in a high place, or be speaking to a crowd, in
order to be petrified by fear.
Even just IMAGINING they are
doing these scary things is enough to get a
person
trembling
(and I should
know, since I used to have a fear of heights, and a
fear
of public speaking).
Now, allow
me to repeat this, because it's
VERY IMPORTANT...Your fight
or flight response
can actually be
triggered by merely imagining
something that
frightens you! Plus, if you
imagine yourself being in
that same situation again, you will create yet another
shock to
your nervous system, thus triggering your fight
or flight response, yet again!!
As the world
renowned neurologist, Sigmund Freud, stated...
"Anxiety is commonly converted into physical symptoms
and nervous reactions."
Even the
American Academy of Family Physicians now emphasizes
that...
"Your
body responds to the way you think, feel and act. When
you are stressed,
anxious, or upset, your
body tries to
tell you that something isnt right."
Those are profound
statements, because they so elegantly reinforce the
second-to-last
sentence from Dr. Payne's quote
(see above)..."Every
thought we think influences
the atoms, molecules, and
cells throughout the body."
Consequently,
those shocks can actually remain
locked in your nervous system
FOREVER!
The panicky sensation you feel from experiencing these
electrical shocks is similar
(only to a smaller degree)
to
the way in which you might react as soon as you
realize
you're about to fall down stairs, or slip on the
ice.
It is then, that your body quickly and
naturally
tenses up as you
"brace
yourself for the impact."
This is because even just thinking about something bad
happening is still enough to
cause strong electrical
shocks throughout your
nervous system even though you're
not really
experiencing the frightening fall.
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Try this quick experiment:
For a few minutes, try concentrating deeply on something
that terrifies you, tremendously.
For
example:
Imagine that
you are driving your car with your family inside, and
you're heading toward
a busy intersection, when all of a
sudden, you hit a patch of slick ice, and no matter what
you do--you cannot stop your car!! Just then, you see a
big, fast-moving truck coming
from your left, that has
also lost control on the ice, and is...
HEADED
STRAIGHT TOWARD YOU!

Really concentrate your thoughts on just how afraid this
life-threatening incident
would make you feel.
Now, ask yourself....
How does imagining this scary scenario make me FEEL?
What's going on in my body right now?
Do I feel any difference when I'm thinking about it?
Has my breathing suddenly changed in any way?
Do I feel more tense or stressed than I was before I
started thinking about this?
That tension
you're likely feeling is directly caused by your own
fight
or flight response being activated, and making you
feel nervous,
worried, or stressed out.
Once your fight or flight response has been triggered by
these terrifying thoughts,
it will be far easier for it
to be triggered again....which will create more negative
thoughts....that will trigger the fight or flight
response yet again....which in turn, will
create even
MORE negative feelings....and so on, and so on. Soon you
will have this
never-ending loop of negative emotions
and feelings taking place creating a snowball
effect,
thus adding ever more layers of negative junk to your
emotional trash heap.
It becomes a
vicious unending cycle of compounding negative thoughts
and
fears creating more negative feelings....which then
causes even more negative
thoughts and fears to surface!
In
addition...EVERY TIME you have a negative thought or
emotion, it causes the powerful neuro-electrical shocks
to create additional
neuro-electrical shocks throughout your
nervous system!
As I've stated earlier, that's where that stressful
feeling of fear comes
from.
Plus, these neuro-electrical shocks will also continue
to build up in size and strength,
exponentially, over
time,
thus enhancing their overall snowball
effect....until it morphs
into
an ongoing condition of
emotional turmoil, and may even force your anger to
become
self-destructive,
or self sabotaging!
It is these repeated neuro-electrical shocks to your
nervous system that are causing
your recurring fears,
self doubts, worries, negative thoughts,
hesitations...or in other
words, those shocks are
directly building up your emotional trash heap to
enormous levels!
And, you can eventually become CONDITIONED....which
means, you
will STAY this way.
This is precisely why older athletes tend to display more insecurities
and fears than the younger athletes.
Think about this:
Have you
ever wondered why so many more older athletes tend to be
more cautious,
and have more debilitating self doubts
and mental blocks than younger athletes?
This is due to
the fact that the older athletes have experienced far
more compounding
neuro-electrical shocks
negatively affecting their nervous systems. This
unwanted
reactive conditioning is responsible for
causing their insecurities and fears, thus
inevitably
diminishing their ability to react effectively when they
are required to,
such as during a championship.
Most younger
athletes, on the other hand, have not yet accumulated
the overwhelming
buildup of negative
thoughts and
beliefs. And, since they've not yet been conditioned by
all of that continuous negativity, these younger
athletes will frequently think of
themselves as being
more or less "invincible," and are often much more
willing to take
risks that the older, more insecure,
athletes who would not dare to attempt for fear of
being hurt, or embarrassed.
Why do you
think the military prefers to target 18 year old men and
women as their
new recruits?
It's simply because, the younger they are, the more
likely they are to still
believe themselves to be
"bullet-proof." This brings up a question that may have
been
asked repeatedly on the battlefields throughout
history (or words to this effect)...
"Why do
rookies boldly go where veterans fear to tread?"
Essentially, since an athlete (or anybody, for that
matter) will ALWAYS have these nasty
shocks continually
triggering their paralyzing fight or flight response,
thus causing their
insecurities and fears to multiply
(creating even
more emotional
trash), what's needed is
an effective treatment method
that has the ability to clear out the effects of these
shocks
in the athlete's nervous system, so that he or
she will be able to perform at their peak
efficiency,
with the most lucid clarity...anytime they are called
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But what can YOU do to counter the paralyzing effects of this relentless fight or
flight response?
While you cannot systematically eliminate
your fight or flight response (nor would you
ever want
to).
You can, however, counteract its negative effects by
gradually
desensitizing it just enough so that it will no longer
have any negative effect
on you, or your emotions!
Then, once your fight or flight response is no longer an
enemy of yours, those distressing
anxiety issues that
you've been struggling with will no longer have any
affect on you,
either. Therefore your emotional and
mental abilities to perform as desired will be
completely restored.
In addition, since you will remain calm and confident at
all times, whatever you attempt
to accomplish in life
will
be easier, and you'll be able to think much more
clearly than
you ever had before!
Here is a
Potentially
'Life-Saving'
Benefit:
Desensitizing your fight or flight response will also
help you to neutralize the
indecisiveness you might feel
if you are ever faced with a life or death situation.
Thus,
allowing you to make better decisions in a logical
manner as to what would be your best
course of action in
any given stressful situation (whereas, other people
would simply panic).
NOTE:
If you're concerned that you will lose your inherent
fight or flight response,
completely. Don't worry, this
training course will merely desensitize the negative
aspects of the fight or flight response, just enough so
that having negative
thoughts will be far less able to
produce the powerful shocks to your nervous
system that
are responsible for causing negative emotions, such as
fears, self
doubts, worries, etc., throughout your body.
So, now we know that, what is needed to break this
continuous cycle is an effective
treatment procedure
that can gradually WEAR DOWN the ability of your fight
or flight
response to cause your anxious thoughts,
fears, and other stressful internal conflicts
that are
holding you back from achieving your dreams.
It is only
after you have sufficiently desensitized your reactive
fight or flight
response that you will begin to release
your fears, self doubts, worries, negative
thoughts,
mental blocks, etc. FOREVER!
Now
that may sound like a rather bold statement, but it IS A
FACT....and you
WILL see just what I mean...while you're
gaining positive results with this
training course.
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