Though it's true that we're all unique, suggesting that from the first breath we inhale till we exhale our last, each one's path will be different from any other, it's also true that we're all questing to meet basic needs, which prove more classic and universal than most might surmise.
Having learned that unnamed anxiety signals me that 'something' is amiss deep inside my mind where conscious awareness may not yet have gained insight into an unidentified fear, I've come to place a high value on training my brain to percolate until that unnamed fear filters through my defensive wall, exposing itself to my conscious mind, clear as day ... as in: Aha! So that's what's tormenting me, unnecessarily, today!
I wish I could say that I've trained my brain to function as a whole, so that unidentified, deep-seated fear percolates to the surface on it's own, but that's not true. Just as doctors are trained to tap into disease that injures the body, psychologists are trained to tap into the psyche, and when they are on target, tapping into my mind, subconscious insecurities in need of healing begin to emerge. Once insight into an injury has surfaced, EMDR therapy hastens the percolating that exposes details which I forgot to remember. Often times these details offer me insight into situations that I'd misperceived. Each time another misperception clarifies, one of my attitudes has sound reason to adjust.
Just as Mother Nature knew what she was doing when she instructed my defense system to repress certain fears, which had overwhelmed my mind during childhood, today, she instructs yesteryear's fears to arise from deep within my adult mind for this reason: Today's anxiety serves as Mother Nature's messenger, suggesting that I've developed the intelligence, humility and courage to quest within until repressed insecurity has been accurately iidentified. Once forgotten memories resurface and have been reprocessed, excess baggage that injured my self esteem is tossed out of my train of thought and reactions that weighed heavy on my spirit lighten up, at last.
For example, let's refer to the heightened state of anxiety that I experienced these past few weeks:
Though my spirit remained strong and steady over the first six weeks after Will's diagnosis, my anxiety grew so great during the final two weeks as to overwhelm all of my personal strengths, except for one: I retained my strong belief in the powers of intuition. And thank goodness for that! With intuition as my guide, a little voice kept whispering that my conscious mind was ready to identify a fear that I'd no clue of having harbored deep inside a subconscious pocket since I was a child. At that early time in my life, this unidentified fear paralyzed the portion of my mind where a child's independent voice develops. (I've often heard my mother say, "Annie never went through the terrible twos. Annie never said no. If I asked her to do something she didn't want to do, she'd scratch her arms and comply. Today, if a child scratched till she bled, the pediatrician would have suggested therapy. Back then, here's what Mom was told: you can give in and raise a spoiled child, or you can stand firm, and Annie will scratch.
Today, with a re-energized sense of having worked tenaciously to achieve a hard earned goal, I'm relieved to say that based in my belief in my ability to dive into the deep end of my mind, two subconscious fears filtered through my defensive wall during sessions of EMDR, and once again, my belief in my intelligence saved the day.
Each time insight into hidden fear brightens my conscious mind, the main root of my anxiety calms down. And with clarity into mysterious fear, which had scared me half to death, I can sense (feel) a new chapter of emotional maturity reorganizing healthy pathways of thought, based in positively focused change taking place within my expanding sense of self awareness.
If you're curious to know the names of these two fears ... and ...
If you're curious to know how left/ brain, right/ brain therapy helps me to reprocess self defeating patterns of thought ... please stay tuned :)
Having learned that unnamed anxiety signals me that 'something' is amiss deep inside my mind where conscious awareness may not yet have gained insight into an unidentified fear, I've come to place a high value on training my brain to percolate until that unnamed fear filters through my defensive wall, exposing itself to my conscious mind, clear as day ... as in: Aha! So that's what's tormenting me, unnecessarily, today!
I wish I could say that I've trained my brain to function as a whole, so that unidentified, deep-seated fear percolates to the surface on it's own, but that's not true. Just as doctors are trained to tap into disease that injures the body, psychologists are trained to tap into the psyche, and when they are on target, tapping into my mind, subconscious insecurities in need of healing begin to emerge. Once insight into an injury has surfaced, EMDR therapy hastens the percolating that exposes details which I forgot to remember. Often times these details offer me insight into situations that I'd misperceived. Each time another misperception clarifies, one of my attitudes has sound reason to adjust.
Just as Mother Nature knew what she was doing when she instructed my defense system to repress certain fears, which had overwhelmed my mind during childhood, today, she instructs yesteryear's fears to arise from deep within my adult mind for this reason: Today's anxiety serves as Mother Nature's messenger, suggesting that I've developed the intelligence, humility and courage to quest within until repressed insecurity has been accurately iidentified. Once forgotten memories resurface and have been reprocessed, excess baggage that injured my self esteem is tossed out of my train of thought and reactions that weighed heavy on my spirit lighten up, at last.
For example, let's refer to the heightened state of anxiety that I experienced these past few weeks:
Though my spirit remained strong and steady over the first six weeks after Will's diagnosis, my anxiety grew so great during the final two weeks as to overwhelm all of my personal strengths, except for one: I retained my strong belief in the powers of intuition. And thank goodness for that! With intuition as my guide, a little voice kept whispering that my conscious mind was ready to identify a fear that I'd no clue of having harbored deep inside a subconscious pocket since I was a child. At that early time in my life, this unidentified fear paralyzed the portion of my mind where a child's independent voice develops. (I've often heard my mother say, "Annie never went through the terrible twos. Annie never said no. If I asked her to do something she didn't want to do, she'd scratch her arms and comply. Today, if a child scratched till she bled, the pediatrician would have suggested therapy. Back then, here's what Mom was told: you can give in and raise a spoiled child, or you can stand firm, and Annie will scratch.
Today, with a re-energized sense of having worked tenaciously to achieve a hard earned goal, I'm relieved to say that based in my belief in my ability to dive into the deep end of my mind, two subconscious fears filtered through my defensive wall during sessions of EMDR, and once again, my belief in my intelligence saved the day.
Each time insight into hidden fear brightens my conscious mind, the main root of my anxiety calms down. And with clarity into mysterious fear, which had scared me half to death, I can sense (feel) a new chapter of emotional maturity reorganizing healthy pathways of thought, based in positively focused change taking place within my expanding sense of self awareness.
If you're curious to know the names of these two fears ... and ...
If you're curious to know how left/ brain, right/ brain therapy helps me to reprocess self defeating patterns of thought ... please stay tuned :)
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