Summary of Sheryl Paul's The Wisdom of Anxiety

By IRB Media

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#1 The therapist knows that the symptoms are helpful clues that point to the place of injury or neglect. The symptoms are helpful because they indicate that change must occur.

#2 Anxiety is a feeling of dread, agitation, or foreboding associated with a danger that does not exist in the present moment. It can be defined as a general and pervasive sense of dis-ease without an identified source.

#3 The fight-or-flight response, which is the primary mechanism of the anxiety system, was originally designed to keep us safe in the jungle. But today, it often manifests as anxiety about safety everywhere we look.

#4 Anxiety is typically manifested in the form of intrusive thoughts, symptoms in the body, and compulsive behaviors. It is important to differentiate between the symptoms and the meaning we assign to those symptoms.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669380726

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#1

The therapist knows that the symptoms are helpful clues that point to the place of injury or neglect. The symptoms are helpful because they indicate that change must occur.

#2

Anxiety is a feeling of dread, agitation, or foreboding associated with a danger that does not exist in the present moment. It can be defined as a general and pervasive sense of dis-ease without an identified source.

#3

The fight-or-flight response, which is the primary mechanism of the anxiety system, was originally designed to keep us safe in the jungle. But today, it often manifests as anxiety about safety everywhere we look.

#4

Anxiety is typically manifested in the form of intrusive thoughts, symptoms in the body, and compulsive behaviors. It is important to differentiate between the symptoms and the meaning we assign to those symptoms.

#5

Anxiety is the result of a sensitive nature being met with gentleness and kindness, but if your parents didn’t know how to guide you through the big feelings of life and offer rituals or practices to help you navigate through the awareness of death, your sensitivity had no choice but to turn into anxiety.

#6

Religion can also transmit the message of basic wrongness, especially around thoughts, bodies, and sexuality. When children are raised with a belief system that tells them that if they think certain thoughts, they have sinned, it’s a setup for anxiety.

#7

The media culture at large transmits anxiety. Everywhere we look, we receive the message that we’re not okay. The world is not okay, and we’re not safe.

#8

To help curb anxiety, you can make a commitment to go on a media diet. This means cutting out all social media and the news for the next thirty or more days. If that seems impossible, do it anyway.

#9

Anxiety is the soul’s way of alerting you to a need to address an issue within yourself. When you ignore or remove