The Breathtaking Leap to Safety—A Picture of Anxiety
I am running scared, my heart racing out of my chest.
Adrenaline surges to every limb, especially to my mind where the worse
scenarios begin to develop like film slipping in an old projector. Who is after
me? Will I live or die, or worse yet be tortured to the last breath of my life?
Will I feel pain? Will I have the courage to endure?
I come to the end of the road. A deep hole the size of my
body has been ripped from the center of the road as if an earthquake had
occurred. All I can see is a very deep, immeasurable drop, where surely I would
die if I were to jump. I must leap over to safety if I have a chance at living.
Do I leap? Do I take a chance and hide from what I think is
pursuing me? Or do I collapse into the hole to my demise?
People with anxiety suffer from this kind of panic almost
every day. Sometimes the adrenaline gets so intense their heart feels like it
can explode, and yet, they have no idea most times what it is they are
suffering from and why. This is an example of a panic attack.
Some people get them when they are facing a particular fear.
Some people get them when they have no idea what they are facing. Usually that
means the person involved hasn’t really taken the time to go to therapy to find
out what is hiding under the panic.
I liken panic and anxiety to coming home and finding a
ferocious lion in your front yard. You rush to the door and grapple for your
keys. The keys drop. Your panic heightens. You finally get the key in the door
and you slam the door shut before the lion has a chance at attack.
You call FEMA. But as FEMA is going to take 20 minutes to
come, the lion begins to slam into the front window. You look for places to
hide in your house. How many doors can you put between you and the danger of
that lion succeeding in breaking through the window to harm you? How much space
can you put between you and your fear—is the real truth?
So, as the person with anxiety begins to unfold the story of
truth to him/herself and sees what he/she is running from, you begin to see why
it takes so much energy each day to create the barriers they need to stay
protected from the danger. Some people choose food and gain tons of weight to
create a literal barrier between life and their perceived outside fear. Some
choose substance abuse to keep them from ever having to face what it is that is
chasing them.
But the real courageous person realizes that he/she can’t
continue to run his/her entire life. She must stop and discover what this
enigma is and either fight it or leap over it or let it destroy her. No other
choice exists. The real fear is inside and must be obliterated.
I talk a lot about self-hypnosis and the ability to become a
conscious observer of the human condition in all of us. This type of
diagnosis—anxiety—is one of those psychological malfunctions of the body and
brain that need this kind of compassion that only the observer can give it. No
other person but you can see what it is that you are running from.
So, learning the tools of self-hypnosis can save your life
if you have an anxiety disorder. Trust me, I know this from experience. I used
to wake up with my heart racing like I could run a 500K sprint and win. What
pursues you always feels like a shadow following you from behind until you
wrestle with it and win.
I’m here to tell you that anxiety is a thing of the past for
me and it can be for you too. Meds are great, but they can’t relieve the
entirety of the mental process that created your fearful profile. You must
unfurl the problem and get to its roots to have a chance at living a life that
is free of anxiousness and stress. Though it may seem like your problem is
outside of you, it is always an internal trigger caused by something in your
past that changed your life forever. Let’s find it together.
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Bo Sebastian is a Hypnotherapist and Life & Health
Coach, available for private sessions to QUIT SMOKING, Lose Weight, New
Lap-Band Hypnosis for Weight Loss, CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR LIFE! at
615-400-2334 or www.bosebastian.com.
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