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Hi David
>From my point of view.. <What is anxiety?> Anxiety is fear, like Pete said. But it is a fear of unknown origin. <What causes anxiety?> The being had several charged e dangerous event in his past. The self defense mechanism hides those dangerous events in the reactive mind. The reactive mind, stirred by some aspect of those events, can show, in the case of anxiety, just the associated emotion of them: fear. The rational mind see the fear but cannot see the origin: anxiety. <How to run it??> There was one (or more) unknown scene connected with a fear. The fear is present now. Contour: Just do a RI and get some sleep until morning. Resolution by TROM: 1. Try to remember full of fear scenes, and TB them. 2. Or imagine the worst scenes with fear, and TB them. 3. Or apply TB on Now versus a real or imagined opposite scene (a totally safe scene). After that you will be not compulsive with yours fears on those scenes, and you will be able to resolve your problems, out there. When I was 14, I felt a panic fear from darkness when came home alone. I had to inspect all rooms, including under the beds, and so on, chasing some thief. On the third nigth, with the same fear ritual, I decided that I could not act like that all my life. Then I realized that my problem was fear of the darkness and not fear of the thief. Then I turn off all ligths, and went to the darkest place in my backyard. I stayed there, trembling, full of fear, seeing the trees, like ghosts, being moved by a terrible wind in the night, without stars or moon. After two minutes of terror, the fear disappeared completely. I never more felt compulsion due the fear of darkness. The darkness can be good or bad, depending on the scene. The biggest problem with fear is the compulsion that paralyses you. If you face the fear, without judgment, like I did when I was 14, the fear looses it's strength, and you can act normally. When you TB those scenes full of fear, you face your fear each time you compare the scenes, and then the fear collapses. Keep tromming Leoncio
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