| tart --> | | | | directed at the anxiety itself. You learn ways to |
| Are you suffering from anxiety? Do you know if | | | | identify the triggers, the situations that create the |
| you are actually anxious or just a bit stressed? | | | | anxiety and other factors that accelerate the fire, |
| Do you actually realize that you are supposed to | | | | and hence set off an alarm. |
| feel calm, relaxed, content and happy? | | | | For true relief you need to put out the fire. You |
| Anxiety affects almost one in three people ... as | | | | need to reprogram your mind and body to |
| the saying goes, look around if you can see two | | | | respond to stress and not react to it. If you |
| friends being happy and content ... then it is you | | | | respond to stress then you will be able to do this |
| that is anxious. | | | | from a calm, relaxed and happy position. Anxiety |
| So what can you do? | | | | attacks will not be triggered because the stresses |
| Anxiety is common today as are all the many | | | | stay at a minimal level. |
| ways to combat it. There is medication to | | | | The stresses and situations that trigger anxiety |
| meditation, cognitive therapy to herbal therapy. | | | | are all around you. Have you ever wondered why |
| So what do you do ... after all, you only ever | | | | the same stresses that cause you to go into an |
| wanted to be happy and content. | | | | anxiety attack or make you feel completely |
| Do you know what your first option is? | | | | anxious ... don't for others. They remain calm, |
| It is simple. You need to look at the fire not the | | | | relaxed and happy. You know the people; they sit |
| fire alarm. If you look at any stress or health | | | | next to you at work or may even live in the |
| problem you have two ingredients... | | | | same house with you. You have the same |
| The fire - which is the underlying problem. The | | | | amount of pressures and stresses yet they don't |
| fire alarm - which is the warning signal. No | | | | have the anxiety attacks. |
| different to a real fire. The fire burns and the fire | | | | The reason is simple ... they have no fire and |
| alarm tells you that a fire is burning. | | | | hence the triggers do not set off a fire alarm as |
| So when you call the fire brigade ... do you ask | | | | the stresses increase. You have a fire and the |
| them to turn the alarm off or put out the fire? | | | | stresses trigger the alarm. The fire is a mind and |
| Hopefully you are thinking fire. | | | | body that are programmed so that stress |
| With anxiety or stress, most of you ask for the | | | | accelerates certain areas in you that set of an |
| fire alarm to be switched off, and only the alarm. | | | | anxiety attack. |
| The fire is left to burn and you hope it will | | | | So what should you do? |
| extinguish itself. | | | | Learn to put out fires ... |
| Almost every anxiety related treatment is | | | | |
