“Anxiety, dread, apprehension, worry and even panic are just mental states like any other.
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Recognize fear when it arises, observe the feeling of it in your body, watch it try to convince you that you should be alarmed, see it change and move on.
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Verbally describe to yourself what you’re feeling, to increase frontal lobe regulation of the limbic system (Hariri, Bookheimer, and Mazziotta 2000; Lieberman et al. 2007).
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Notice how the awareness which contains fear is itself never fearful.
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Keep separating from the fear; settle back into the vast space of awareness through which fear passes like a cloud.
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The mind has the ability to understand fear, staying totally present when fear arrives.
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It is similar to pain-like an alarm going off, a bell being rung.
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Real harm to our bodies does not come from pain or fear.”
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PTSD is a disorder using false fear and cortisol, that is all.
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