This is a great post! I had a very similar experience watching Inside Out 2 with my own kids, but I didn't articulate to myself the difference between stress and anxiety. It feels like yet another example of a maladaptive survival trait which is confused by the modern world: anxiously scanning for tigers when you're out foraging? Great idea! You never know when one might show up and eat you and your berries. Plus, as soon as you're back in your cave, the anxiety won't be necessary anymore and will turn off so you can enjoy your fruit salad. Nowadays, though, I have no "cave" of safety — even sitting beside my children, safe and dry, and enjoying a lovely Pixar movie, my brain is inventing potential tigers. Thanks for the insights!
Thanks a lot Malcolm. I feel you. I'd love to have a safe cave where I could turn off my anxiety. I'm not there yet but I'm working on it. What I really work on is what i said I my post: realising that my anxious thoughts are just this --》thoughts ! Scenarios that I make up. And this, I have power on !
C'est ça. I'm particularly working on "the gap between stimulus and response" and how to slow down before reacting. Good luck on your journey, and I hope we can wave from our respective caves one day :)
I'm not anxious but like all people, i can feel anxious during some periods...
I love using somatic practice, kundalini yoga, breathwork or EFT to ease this anxiety !
Great techniques to relax
This is a great post! I had a very similar experience watching Inside Out 2 with my own kids, but I didn't articulate to myself the difference between stress and anxiety. It feels like yet another example of a maladaptive survival trait which is confused by the modern world: anxiously scanning for tigers when you're out foraging? Great idea! You never know when one might show up and eat you and your berries. Plus, as soon as you're back in your cave, the anxiety won't be necessary anymore and will turn off so you can enjoy your fruit salad. Nowadays, though, I have no "cave" of safety — even sitting beside my children, safe and dry, and enjoying a lovely Pixar movie, my brain is inventing potential tigers. Thanks for the insights!
Thanks a lot Malcolm. I feel you. I'd love to have a safe cave where I could turn off my anxiety. I'm not there yet but I'm working on it. What I really work on is what i said I my post: realising that my anxious thoughts are just this --》thoughts ! Scenarios that I make up. And this, I have power on !
C'est ça. I'm particularly working on "the gap between stimulus and response" and how to slow down before reacting. Good luck on your journey, and I hope we can wave from our respective caves one day :)
With pleasure 😉