Welcome.
My name is Peter Strong and I'm a professional mindfulness based psychotherapist and I offer
online therapy for anxiety via Skype.
I'm often asked how to overcome anxiety thoughts, how to stop anxiety thoughts from controlling
your life.
This is a very interesting area because for most people their first reaction is to simply
try to remove the thoughts by a process of resistance and aversion.
Just do not think about those thoughts and they will go away.
This this kind of reaction of aversion to thoughts is very common.
And another approach that's also equally common is one of distraction.
Simply distract yourself from the unpleasant anxiety producing thoughts so you don't think
those thoughts and focus on positive thoughts and that will make them stop.
But, in my experience these approaches of avoidance and aversion just don't work.
You cannot stop anxiety thoughts by trying to fight against them or trying to distract
yourself away from them by positive thinking or other means.
A much, much more successful approach is one of learning how to change your relationship
to these thoughts.
The best way to stop anxiety thoughts is to actually make friends with them, to bring
them into the mind as welcome guests and change your relationship to them, from one of aversion
to one friendliness.
When you develop friendliness in the mind it essentially makes you bigger and the thoughts.
It helps change the balance of power.
If you fight thoughts it makes you smaller than the thoughts so that they tend to have
more power.
So that's why aversion doesn't really work very well and avoidance is just simply another
form of aversion.
If you really want to change anxiety thoughts the best thing is to invite them in but then
sit with those thoughts with mindfulness, with a quality of mind that is non-reactive,
that is conscious and friendlily.
Non-reactivity is the solution here.
If you stop reacting to those anxiety thoughts they will lose that power and burn themselves
out and eventually they will stop arising at all.
So this is what we learn during the mindfulness training that I offer online.
It is how exactly to do this: how to change your relationship to your thoughts so that
you're not fighting them and that you're not avoiding them, but you're actually putting
your efforts into changing your relationship to your thoughts so that you have the power,
and the thoughts to not have the power to control you.
This approach of mindfulness is extremely effective.
It's quite easy to do.
It just takes a little bit of guidance and I will show you how to do this during the
online therapy sessions.
So if you'd like to learn how to stop anxiety thoughts and how to free yourself from anxiety
panic attacks, as well, then please go to my web site.
Learn more about mindfulness therapy for anxiety.
And then e-mail me and we can schedule a therapy session over Skype at a time that works for
you.
And even after the first session of learning how to work with anxiety thoughts.
I think you'll see some tremendous improvements.
Most clients see quite dramatic improvements after the first three or four sessions of
practicing the mindfulness techniques that I teach.
So, please email me if you're interested and I would like to schedule a Skype therapy session
with me.
Thank you.
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