anxiety is a body thing (initially anyway) - a body memory of what danger cues are from a previously unsettling/scary experience. so when your senses scan the external environment wherever you are and there seems to be no recognisable safety cues, the body goes to work on your nerves and muscles and the familiar body posture for scary is replicated - tension in face and jaw, tension in shoulders arms and hands, bowel cramps, tummy aches and so on. the body then lets the brain know and in a flash anxious thoughts flood the brain.
And these anxiety body clues are all on display when someone comes to consult with us because they are anxious.
Some of the most effective remedies for anxiety is knowing how to disentangle tense postures and increase the client's ability to more effectively recognise safety cues that are available but they are in the person's blind spot when scary kicks in.
For starters, a just sitting and noticing, being present meditation can be invaluable .
Allow the person focus gently on the shapes and colours of object both in the room and outside the room. Then follow up with a series of relatively short in breaths and long out breaths.
And notice the changes in the body so far and subsequently the thoughts and feelings.
And these anxiety body clues are all on display when someone comes to consult with us because they are anxious.
Some of the most effective remedies for anxiety is knowing how to disentangle tense postures and increase the client's ability to more effectively recognise safety cues that are available but they are in the person's blind spot when scary kicks in.
For starters, a just sitting and noticing, being present meditation can be invaluable .
Allow the person focus gently on the shapes and colours of object both in the room and outside the room. Then follow up with a series of relatively short in breaths and long out breaths.
And notice the changes in the body so far and subsequently the thoughts and feelings.
