Working WITH anxiety (instead of against it)

About This Tool

A perfect tool to enhance awareness of your signs and level of anxiety and how to take care of yourself the best you can at that moment

Anxiety has the function to alert us to potential threats and send us bodily signals to help us respond to danger. Anxiety and fear are preparing us to flee, freeze, or to fight.

They are part of our body’s built-in survival mechanism.

To be able to see and listen to the underlying messages, we need to let the high-energy move and decrease. For a clearer sight to see and act on the underlying needs and values of it.

Mostly anxiety or fear tells us that we need to protect ourselves and gives us an opportunity to check how that might look like at that moment.

 

This tool will help you to:

Become more attuned with the signals of your body, mind and energy

Increased awareness of the symptoms, signs and level of anxiety

Feel more comfortable and confident in handling fearful and anxious states

Becoming more resilient in handling stressful events and sensations

Gain control of your life in order to handle the ups-and-downs of life

More focused on your needs at that moment

Acting more out of self-love and compassion

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Why It Works

A Review of Emotion Recognition Using Physiological Signals https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6069143/

Interoception and emotion https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X17300106

Emotion in the body: Jacobs Hendel, H. (2018). Emotions Are Physical. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 31, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/emotions-are-physical/

Regulating emotion to improve physical health through the amygdala: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381236/

Bodily maps of emotions: L. Nummenmaa, E. Glerean, R. Hari, J. K. Hietanen. Bodily maps of emotions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321664111

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