Learn what anxiety really is and how to break the cycle so you can feel better in your body and live a fuller life.
Anxiety is one of the most common conditions in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. How do you know if you’re anxious? If you have racing thoughts, if your breathing is shallow, if your body feels tense, if you have trouble relaxing -- those are all possible signs you are feeling anxious. From an emotional hygiene perspective, anxiety is related to fear. Fear can be thought of like an alarm -- it rings to signal a threat like when there’s smoke in your kitchen. But for some people, the alarm just keeps ringing and ringing even when there is no threat. How do you turn off the alarm, so to speak?
Join us to learn about fear, anger, and the science of being human that can help you to turn the fear alarm off when you don’t need it on and turn it on when you do.
What you’ll learn:
Tim Westfeldt, founder of the Westfeldt Institute for Emotional Hygiene and creator of the Emotional Hygiene method, will lead participants through experiments and activities to help them understand the underlying emotions and physiological systems of anxiety. function.
We’ll cover:
What causes anxiety from an emotional and psychological lens
Key ways to be with the underlying emotion of fear and how to pick up anger
Using new tools to have more choice around the fear alarm and how to turn it off
What you’ll need:
A stable Internet connection
Zoom downloaded on your computer