Overcoming Anxiety With Self Therapy

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To better understand Self Therapy, let's look at how it was developed.

As a young man, I suffered almost constantly from anxiety and a myriad of symptoms stemming from that anxiety. My path to inner freedom actually began in traditional counseling with a psychologist. Soon I began to notice various factors that the productive counseling sessions had in common. In particular, sessions that resulted in feelings of increased inner strength almost always involved a period during which the counselor guided me into an observation of my own emotional energies. The observation of emotional energy was more accurately a period during which I stopped trying to avoid inner sensations, and merely experienced them.

Simultaneously with counseling I was also exploring several spiritual pursuits, most notably through meditation. Oddly, I noticed that the goal of almost every form of meditation was an "emptying" of the mind, a "releasing" of emotional energies from the body, and a concentration on the remaining "void". It was almost as if the goal of meditation was a separation of oneself from one's feelings, exactly the opposite of what I benefited from during counseling. This can perhaps be a spiritual and relaxing experience, but when you're dealing with anxiety, it's really just a form of suppression with very short lived benefit in the real world. However, I did find tremendous value in the inner awareness that meditation taught.

What eventually resulted in Self Therapy was a fusion of these two practices, a form of meditation in which I was able to communicate with myself in the same manner that the psychologist communicated with me during those energy shifting sessions. I could now combine the benefit of inner emotional awareness with the focused concentration of meditation. The result is a piercing ability to directly experience body sensations and emotional energies in a controlled manner that defeats the subconscious tendency toward the avoidance which leads to anxiety.

The benefits in my life have been truly astounding, and I believe they will be for you as well.

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