Understanding how an anxiety limits you in your life at its best and anxiety can help us stay alert
and focused, it can get our hearts bounding and give us the extra adrenaline we need to say a Winterreise
at its worst however it can, but allows us to the point of inaction.
If you suffer from an anxiety, especially in an anxiety disorder, you know how disabling it can be.
However, ridding yourself of all an anxiety isn't a realistic goal, and it's not only impossible,
but necessary for some people, fear of flying severely limits their career, but others can easily
avoid air travel for an entire lifetime, with the few consequences.
If you focus your attention on the anxiety reactions that frequently or severely interfere with your
ability to live your life in the way you desire, you'll be on the right track.
Take some time right now to think of examples of how an anxiety or avoidance interferes with your life.
Write them down if that's helpful.
Think of potential goals that you have difficulty accomplishing due to anxiety and because an anxiety
can extend its reach to influence future decisions.
Be sure to look beyond your daily life.
Is an anxiety keeping you from doing things like taking a trip, switching jobs or confronting a problem?
Of course, you cannot deal all of these situations at once.
Several considerations are helpful in choosing which situations to focus on and which to focus on first.
You could begin with the situations that you deal with most frequently, or you might want to start
with the situations that result in the highest level of anxiety.
In any case, it's essential to focus on situations in which reducing anxiety will make a real difference
in your life.
Exercise, identifying your life goals, the central goal of this course is to give you the power to
live your life in the manner you wish so that you can fulfill your own aspirations.
Therefore, when deciding which and anxiety responses you want to define carefully, consider your personal
objectives.
What short term and long term do you want to change or do you want to have?
To help you clarify this, complete the following sentences for each sentence.
Try to imagine what you'd like to do if an anxiety warranted a limiting factor, one in the future I
would like to see myself do in one year.
I would like to three.
In eight weeks, I'd like to four.
If I weren't so concerned about I would.