Fighting anxiety is the natural thing to do when anxiety and/or panic attacks enter into a life. There are many things in life we can overcome by willpower or fighting. Sometimes when we are tired we are able to fight off our drowsiness by shear will. We actually rise up to the task of meeting the tiredness head on and defeat it. Trying to lose weight? Fighting off the temptation to have a piece of cake and other goodies can help you accomplish this. In my opinion, it is the only way; you got to fight the urge and win your fight with this urge!
Life presents us with a series of obstacles which for us to be successful, we need to fight and defeat. We can’t just fight with them for the sake of fighting; we have to win the fight. So, it follows, if these obstacles are more formidable than we had originally thought, we need to fight them harder to put them in their place.
Fighting to do what’s Necessary
I think of bills as one of these obstacles. Since no one is going to pay them for me, I have to fight to get myself to work harder than I want to get the money to pay them. At the same time, I have to fight the temptation to spend more money which will accumulate more of them.
Yes, fighting is a normal instinct we have for survival. Unfortunately, it is this instinct that not only keeps anxiety alive in our lives, but it also has the capability to take a small amount of anxiety and turn it into a full blown anxiety disorder, complete with panic attacks.
Adrenaline’s Trickery
As we feel anxiety coming on, we often are greeted by some unpleasant feelings. Anxiety makes adrenaline pump through our system. As it does, it changes the way our bodies physically function. This is why we feel our hearts races and our palms sweat. We also see things differently because our pupils dilate. Sometimes, a very sensitive person may believe he or she has hallucinated because of this.
However, if this were the extent of an anxiety attack, all would be well, or at least it would be something we all could deal with. The problem is we try to fight anxiety and since anxiety is a manifestation of the fight or flight response, fighting brings on more anxiety.
This added anxiety brings on more adrenaline flow and this brings on more scary feelings. It makes us sometimes feel like we are about to die. So, those people who are not familiar with this fight or flight response will probably try to fight the anxiety even harder; just the same way I am fighting the urge to have a piece of chocolate cake.
I will successfully fight my urge for cake but when I try to fight anxiety I will lose every time. Anxiety thrives on your fighting it. With anxiety the path to victory lies in your ability to surrender to it. Let it run its course and it will go away. Using this method has helped me immensely. While everybody is different, I hope you can benefit by from this philosophy too.
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