Posted by aeon on November 22, 2006, at 22:54:51
In reply to Re:Teejay an important question please reply, posted by kiwiredbeach on November 22, 2006, at 2:59:48
Hi guys
I also suffer from a sort of free floating anxiety that gets me sometimes... I realised that nothing I did pharmacologically really helped it, except for knocking myself out with benzos. But that is not an effective strategy.
What I discovered, and I don't know if this will work for you but it does for me, is that when it rears up my attention is focussed in a very specific part of my brain, on the right middle. I think it may be the right amygdala but who knows.
All I do is imagine that area releasing - like this: Clench you fist, hard as you can. Keep going. Keep going. Eventually it starts to hurt. Now release it. Let it got. That is the same sensation I use in my brain - I tense it make it worse to locate it and then ---- release. Then I imagine it is clear and clean there and relaxed, just a for a few seconds.
Then I consciously transfer my attention to the left prefrontal cortex, just behind and above the eye. I imagine this lighting up and I try to keep my attention there.
After a few tries this technique really works for anxiety for me. Sometimes I practive it when I am not anxious - I rememeber an anxiety proiducing thing, and go through the process, just to get my brain trained up.
The left prefrontal cortex is where all pleasant thoughts come from.
aeon
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