There are days that you feel a sense that something is not well, without being able to say exactly what it is. The heart beats faster than normal, you have trouble concentrating, sleep poorly or feel a constant tension that you can't explain. If you identify with some of this, it is likely that the anxiety is already present in your life. What happens is that we still have not named.
In this article you'll understand what is anxietywhat are its main symptoms, and how to differentiate the normal concern of a problem that needs attention. But more importantly, what you can do about it from the psychotherapy and the reprogramming emotional.
Some people believe that anxiety shows weakness or a defect of character, but it is not. It is a notice that gives the nervous system informing which has been activated for longer than necessary. However, you can be transformed.
What is anxiety?
It is a natural emotion, and for that reason, we can all experience it. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2021 anxiety disorders affect approximately 359 million people in the world. This makes them the mental disorder most prevalent at the global level.
The basic operation of the anxiety provides the body with an alert. This alarm signal is active when your brain perceives a threat, whether real or imaginary. It is what in psychology is known as the fight or flight response. That is to say, your body prepares to face a threat or flee from it.
When this response of our system appears outside of the normal parameters, more prolonged, or frequent and without a reason, the anxiety becomes an obstacle that interferes with your daily life, your relationships and your well-being.
It is important to distinguish between anxiety as excitement timely and anxiety disorder as a clinical condition. The first is temporary and proportionate to a specific situation. The second is a persistent, often disproportionate, and maintained for weeks or months, affecting the daily functioning of the person.
What are the symptoms of anxiety?
You can take different forms in each person. Some feel about everything in the body; others, in mind. And in many cases, the symptoms are mixed in such a way that it is difficult to identify what is going on. Below I'll explain the three main dimensions in which it can manifest.
Physical symptoms
Your body is the first to react. Anxiety activates the autonomic nervous system, and that translates into feelings very specific: palpitations or tachycardia, muscle tension (especially in neck, jaw and back), excessive sweating, tremors, difficulty breathing, gastrointestinal distress, among others. These symptoms are real, not imaginary. The body is responding to a warning signal that the brain is sending the form deregulated.
Emotional symptoms and cognitive
Here is where the anxiety is easily misunderstood with the stress or the usual concern. But the difference is in the intensity and the duration. Some of the most common symptoms are: a constant concern and disproportionate, feeling that something bad is going to happen without a clear reason, trouble concentrating or making decisions, irritability, feeling of being on the edge or out of control and, in some cases, episodes of depersonalization, where you feel that it's not you or the environment is not real.
Behavioral symptoms
The anxiety also changes the way you act. It is common that you start to avoid situations, places or people that you associate with the discomfort. You may notice that you postpone important decisions, which will isolate or who you turn to unhealthy habits, such as excessive consumption of caffeine, alcohol, or food, as a way to calm the tension. These behaviors may seem to be temporary solutions, but in reality, sustain and reinforce the cycle of anxiety.
How do you know if you have anxiety?
Feeling anxiety at certain times, it is completely normal. Before an exam, a job interview or a difficult conversation, it is expected that your body and mind to react with a certain degree of activation. The key point is to distinguish when that activation is functional and when it has become something that limits you.
There are some signs that can tell what you're feeling goes beyond the normal concern:
Duration
Do you have more than six months feeling concern or being tensed most of the time? without being able to identify a clear cause, it is likely that you're before a picture of anxiety that needs attention.
Intensity
If anxiety prevents you from doing things you used to do normally. Sleep well, work with concentration or enjoy your relationships, it becomes difficult and intense.
Impact on your body
Physically you may experience physical symptoms recurring, such as digestive problems, headaches, or muscle tension, chronic. When you suffer from anxiety, a doctor does not find an organic cause because your body might be expressing what your mind does not manage to process.
Avoidance.
If you notice that you're organizing your life around that which produces discomfort, avoiding people, places or situations, is a sign that the anxiety is already shaping your decisions.
If you identify with several of these signals, it does not mean that something is wrong with you. This means that your nervous system needs support to get back to self-regulate. That is something that you can work with the right tools.
Why is the anxiety?
Anxiety does not have a single cause. WHO tells us that it is the result of a complex interaction between factors are biological, psychological and social. Among the most studied are genetic predisposition, adverse childhood experiences, those with stressful events, prolonged, and thought patterns they have learned.
From the perspective of the Magui Block® Methodmany of the patterns that hold the anxiety they have their origin in unconscious beliefs obtained in the initial stages of our life. Experiences that were not processed properly, emotional needs that were not met, family dynamics that generated insecurity or authority figures that shaped the hypervigilance as a way to survive.
The good news is that what was learned can be reprogrammed. And that is precisely the focus of the therapeutic work that proposes Magui Block.
How does the Method Magui Block® help with anxiety?
The Method Magui Block® addresses the anxiety from the psychotherapy and the reprogramming subconscious beliefs. Instead of working only with the symptoms, the method goes to the root of the problem: the beliefs, judgments and emotional patterns that hold enabled the state of alert in your nervous system.
In a session with this method, the process follows three clear steps:
1. Recognize
Identify cause discomfort. What is in your subconscious, and which, being invisible to you, you can't solve with force of will.
2. Identify what you need
Once the cause is found, identifies what needs to be integrated so that the problem will go away.
3. Transform
With the proper technique for each case, rescheduled limiting beliefs and integrate new ways of perceiving reality.
This approach does not seek to eliminate the anxiety as an emotion, because that is a natural function of the body. You are looking for disable the pattern of constant alertness shot from a past experience, and that no longer corresponds to the present reality.
The Method Magui Block® complements these approaches by offering a deep work on the unconscious beliefs that fuel anxiety. If you have already tried other ways and you feel that there is something more under that you've not managed to resolve reprogramming of the emotions can be the step you are missing.
If you feel that the anxiety is driving your life, I invite you to take the next step. You can explore the resources available on this page or schedule a private session to work with your situation in a personalized way with the Method Magui Block®.
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