Anxiety and panic attacks..
It happens again and again that people are seized by an irrational fear seemingly without reason, which can even degenerate into panic, which makes the person concerned
simply unable to act. This can be fear of crowds, which can even lead to not even being able to do the necessary shopping.
Spider phobias or the proverbial fear of mice are also widespread.
The tricky thing about these anxiety attacks is that fear reactions are hard-coded processes in our bodies. Originally, they served to enable our survival in dangerous situations.
Therefore, they are firmly anchored in the limbic system. Thus, they are unconscious processes. Fear reactions are triggered by our brain when we are in a situation that has similarities to a previous experience that we have classified as dangerous. There are certain key stimuli there that we instinctively perceive as scary. Once the fear stimulus is triggered, automatic mechanisms run and, depending on the situation, we switch either to flight or to fight. All body functions necessary for this run up at lightning speed to maximum performance, all currently not needed functions such as digestion, immediately stop their work. This happens automatically and unconsciously, it does not wait for a conscious activation. This physiologically ensures that we do not lose any time when it comes to ensuring our survival. In order not to get into such a situation unnecessarily due to misinformation, i.e. unconscious beliefs, it is necessary to change the triggering information and beliefs.
A very common method in classical psychology is behavioral therapy, which simply has the goal of repeatedly putting the person in the situation that is threatening to him or her until at some point he or she conquers the fear that arises. Behavioral therapy refers to a spectrum of methods in the field of psychotherapy. These have in common that they evaluate the model of classical conditioning as central to the processes in the human psyche. Another characteristic of behavioral therapy methods is that they help patients to help themselves. The focus is on providing the patient with methods to empower them to overcome their psychological ailments.
If we look at the role of the unconscious mind and why it conveys these feelings, we can gauge what this confrontation with the situation does.
I'll just take the example of someone being afraid to go into an elevator. Here, the trigger is always a previous experience in which the person was locked in a confined space and could not get out on their own. Presumably, this was sometime in childhood, and this very child subjectively experienced the situation as very threatening. Whether it actually was is irrelevant. The unconscious thinks and feels like a small child, it is our best friend, constantly ready to help and support us, and in this case it is just the fear as a warning not to go into this narrow space, because you might not get out of there.
Behavioral therapy is now about experiencing this situation again and again, so that at some point the unconscious understands that there is no reason for the fear, because nothing is happening. But the unconscious will keep thinking, "Well, it went well this time, but it may happen next time." And every little change in the situation is perceived as a new threat. I like to compare this to the situation where you once accidentally hit your finger instead of the nail with the hammer. Now you keep hitting the finger with the hammer until at some point you no longer feel the pain. Whether this is so effective, everyone can decide for himself.
Wouldn't it be better to approach the unconscious directly, and to work on and invalidate the belief that one could be locked in a confined space? Instead of going to therapy, which can take months or years to achieve
success, simply take one that leads to success within half an hour to an hour? Yes well, the psychologist wants to live and earn money, I can understand that. But his mistake in thinking is possibly that so many people have non-useful beliefs that he could effectively help so many people in the same time, if he would not waste this time senselessly with one patient and thus leave the patient in his problem as long as possible. Some well-known doctor once said that behavioral therapy is really occupational therapy, both for the patient and the therapist.
In case of such an anxiety, Mind Clearing helps enormously, of course. If it is not possible to approach the original event through psychokinesiology, the patient can of course also treat the fear as such with MCTS (Mind Clearing Tapping Solution, my interpretation of EFT). For this, one takes the first experience one can remember, then the most intense experience one can remember and finally also the last experience one can remember. All these events are treated with MCTS, and if there are no successes, then one looks for other points of view that have arisen in the situations. In the case of the elevator, this would be the narrow space, the fear of not being able to leave it under one's own power, and so on.
Through this approach, one can get a grip on any fear.