The Anxiety Fire Alarm - are You the Fire or the Alarm?

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Are you suffering from anxiety? Do you know if you are actually anxious or just a bit stressed? Do you actually realize that you are supposed to feel calm, relaxed, content and happy? Anxiety affects almost one in three people ...
as the saying goes, look around if you can see two friends being happy and content ...
then it is you that is anxious.
So what can you do? Anxiety is common today as are all the many ways to combat it.
There is medication to meditation, cognitive therapy to herbal therapy.
So what do you do ...
after all, you only ever wanted to be happy and content.
Do you know what your first option is? It is simple.
You need to look at the fire not the fire alarm.
If you look at any stress or health problem you have two ingredients...
The fire - which is the underlying problem.
The fire alarm - which is the warning signal.
No different to a real fire.
The fire burns and the fire alarm tells you that a fire is burning.
So when you call the fire brigade ...
do you ask them to turn the alarm off or put out the fire? Hopefully you are thinking fire.
With anxiety or stress, most of you ask for the fire alarm to be switched off, and only the alarm.
The fire is left to burn and you hope it will extinguish itself.
Almost every anxiety related treatment is directed at the anxiety itself.
You learn ways to identify the triggers, the situations that create the anxiety and other factors that accelerate the fire, and hence set off an alarm.
For true relief you need to put out the fire.
You need to reprogram your mind and body to respond to stress and not react to it.
If you respond to stress then you will be able to do this from a calm, relaxed and happy position.
Anxiety attacks will not be triggered because the stresses stay at a minimal level.
The stresses and situations that trigger anxiety are all around you.
Have you ever wondered why the same stresses that cause you to go into an anxiety attack or make you feel completely anxious ...
don't for others.
They remain calm, relaxed and happy.
You know the people; they sit next to you at work or may even live in the same house with you.
You have the same amount of pressures and stresses yet they don't have the anxiety attacks.
The reason is simple ...
they have no fire and hence the triggers do not set off a fire alarm as the stresses increase.
You have a fire and the stresses trigger the alarm.
The fire is a mind and body that are programmed so that stress accelerates certain areas in you that set of an anxiety attack.
So what should you do? Learn to put out fires ...
your anxiety fires and then the anxiety fire alarm will never be a problem.
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