Анна Шиман
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On anxiety.
Few people enjoy anxious states. More often than not, a person who comes for a consultation wants to get rid of the tension caused by uncertainty and anxiety as quickly as possible. Many hold quite serious beliefs about anxiety that give it a negative colouring, and this often makes them shield their consciousness from anxiety with shame, irritation and other feelings.
- Anxiety is a voice from childhood.
- Anxiety is like an alarm that goes off when none of the grown-ups are at home.
- Anxiety makes you go numb and freeze, attack and run, obeying an instinctive fear of the unknown.
And now imagine that you grew up long ago, yet the treacherous “alarm” keeps going off, bringing tension and numbness. Or aggression and the urge to run away, at the worst possible moment. The wish to hide from a frightening world and from those who disturb you makes you build all kinds of psychological defences. Most of them rest on irrational fears from the deep past.
Take a close look at how you live.
Is there peace in your Soul?
Is there a space there that is yours alone?
A home, a refuge that no one but you may enter?
Do you know where its boundaries are?
How many rooms does it have, and who keeps it in order?
Are your “grown-ups” at home?
Or are you still hiding, hoping that someone outside will remove the source of your anxiety and protect you from harsh outside conditions and life’s difficulties?
- Would you like to find out what, and who, lies outside your defences?
- What might the world around you be like beyond fears and anxiety?
Sign up for our “Practical Psychology” course, and in 10 months your inner home will be full of light, and your life full of new discoveries!
Tel.: 0676131088
Places in the group are booked on payment of the first month of classes.
Course leader: Anna Oleksandrivna Shyman.
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