Understanding your anxiety

Acceptance

Today we learn acceptance. Acceptance is often the best route if the problems you have cannot be solved, or you're unable to solve them right away. Three paths to acceptance are - observing your thoughts and moods rather than judging them or acting on them, keeping the big picture in mind, and acting in accord with your values even when you are distressed.

Thoughts and Imagery

How are thoughts related to anxiety? In this episode we go over some text and also do an exercise to identify the thoughts we had in an anxious situation.

Understanding your anxiety

Today we learnt that anxiety has physical and mental symptoms. Anxiety comes in two behavioral forms - 1. Avoidance 2. Safety behaviors Copping behaviors should be adopted to reduce anxiety over time.

Understanding mood severity and physical symptoms

Today I go over chapter 14 of book "Mind over mood" and understand about anxiety. I also finished chapter 4 from previous episode. We learnt about mood severity and anxiety physical symptoms. Start rating your mood on a scale of 0-100% and start noting down your physical symptoms of anxiety. Here is the worksheet that helps - https://infosheets.mindovermood.com/MOM2-worksheet-14-1.pdf [https://infosheets.mindovermood.com/MOM2-worksheet-14-1.pdf]

Identifying Moods

Today, we're continuing to understand ourselves by learning how to identify moods. Reading chapter 4 of this book - "Mind over Mood", we learn that: * Moods can usually be described in one word * Situations and behaviors can be described by asking yourself: Who? What? When? Where? * Identifying specific moods helps you set goals and track progress * Thoughts are the words, images, and memories that go through your mind.