Dealing with Anxiety

Dealing with Anxiety takes some different coping styles to help you through. One of these is the act of learning how to reduce or stop your struggle with anxiety. We do not like to feel uncomfortable and I would say that humankind is allergic to it. Its like a fire and if we see an unplanned fire we want to out it out right away. So we reach for water but what if this type of fire requires something else to put it out? Instead of reaching for water we would reach for something else. In Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT) we say what you reach for are the tools for acceptance. These tools are not tools to make your fire go away (anxiety) but rather to stop struggling with it and allow the uncomfortable feeling and physical sensations that come along with it to stay where they are. If you do that you stop the inner conflict. This could allow you to make room for this as well as to move past it.