Why to deal with fear is harmful

Fear can not fight!With fear as an innate protective response to fight a pointless and even harmful. Fear arises when there is a threat, triggering the behavior of self-preservation.

If the threat (the enemy) is weak or is equivalent to, afraid of experiencing the anger necessary to attack. For example, the woman released the child to walk, then saw him in the yard. Afraid that with a child something happened. Ran to look. Thus thinks: "I'll kill you!" When it finds one, it scolds and punishes. If the threat (the enemy) is regarded as stronger, the man flees. Children's game of hide and seek develops the ability to find unexpected places and quickly escape from external threats. For example, children arguing parents are hiding. If there is no possibility to escape, then the person is faking or bluffing with the intention of deceiving the enemy into confusion. One of the most famous historical characters – the prototype of hamlet. Fourteen-year-old son of the king of the ambush, pretended to be mad, and thus escaped the destined fate. His father and brothers were killed, he remained alive. Another way to react to fear is a change of consciousness: the creation of illusion, or stupor: "I froze like paralyzed."

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Anxiety as the fear

The caretaker of the pack

Often fear is called anxiety. In some people it is chronic. Approximately 15% of the world population classified as anxious personality. It is not pathology. The fact that in nature there is a "caretaker" of the pack. It is individuals who are responsible for the safety of the community and are constantly in tension, in time to notice the impending danger. And among people people are born with elevated levels of anxiety as a "caretaker of the pack".

Distinctive features

  • Neurophysiology: thinner Prefontaine system of the brain and active tonsil.
  • They are sharper and enduring emotional impact. Hypersensitivity to bodily sensations and signals.
  • Such people are creative, attentive, reliable and conscientious.
Many of them pressured their concerns, and the behavior looks normal. But to control the physiology it is impossible, therefore an inner sense of anxiety and tension haunts them constantly.

What to do:

  • Tell your feelings and substitute rational reasoning. The reaction of fear lasts only 0.8 seconds. It is necessary just to survive. Then is assessment of the situation: run away or attack? The assessment lasts no more than 10-15 minutes. So a panic attack cannot last forever and within 15 minutes stopped.
  • Learn to treat with humor to his dismay, transfer their fears into a joke. Attention, don't let others laugh at yourself, laugh at yourself and your anxiety.
  • Expand their boundless imagination with paintings of the horrors of the ways to solve the problem.
  • Gradually overcome fears. Go to a meeting with his fear. So is exercise and thickening prefrontal system of the brain.
  • Efficiently learn to relax and relieve stress: practice breathing, autogenic relaxation of the muscles.
Induced anxiety

In practice I am faced with a situation where the cause of high anxiety and fear in an adult is infection of anxiety from her mother.

Options for the development of anxiety in a child:

Woman in pregnancy was frightened in any event. It may even be "good fear". When a new pregnancy after a miscarriage or birth of a sick child, the woman endures for the life and health of the embryo. The condition of the mother transmitted to the child. The woman was not ready for pregnancy and conception occurred by chance. The whole period until she decides to give birth or have an abortion the embryo is in a state of fear for their lives. The woman lives in a situation where there is constant threat to life or health. For example, beating the husband, lack of money, sickness, frontal area during the war. Already born a child of the "love to mother", wanting to ease her life, takes this fear to yourself. What to do:

Meditation on a restoration of security. In meditation relieves muscle automaticity anxiety, relaxes, forming a sense of security and a state of peace.

The result of trauma (psychological or physical)

There is no one who has not experienced any trauma in your life. The result of a traumatic event is often fear of a repetition of a similar situation in the present or the future.

What to do:

In this case, you must consult a specialist to remove the psychological effects of trauma.

This focus on yourself.

Empty anxiety, you need to escape responsibility and solve real-life problems. Almost always the fear of death haunts people who do not live a full life in the present moment. Their life goes day by day as the sheets of the calendar.

What to do:

You need to remove the focus from yourself and transferred to the process of life itself, to take responsibility for the events that it needs to happen.

Catastrophization thinking.

From early childhood parents teach children to be afraid "do not go here – uncle will steal". Over time, the representation of the world as dangerous, the habit of worrying over nothing to be afraid of uncertainty. In today's world most threats are imagined (fear of old age, disease, lack of money, death, betrayal, bad opinions, etc.). They do not require panic reactions, but the energy consumes a huge amount of. Most of the things of concern in life and does not occur. Instead, to conclude that anxiety is meaningless, one begins to worry even more.

What to do:

  • The method of Realistic evaluation.
  • Method of the worst Scenario of the situation development.
  • The creation of a safe picture of the world. published
Author: Maria Kudryavtseva

 

P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! ©

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