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The Fear Of Missing Out: Am I Doing Enough?

Leave a Comment / Stress Management / Inner Space Team / July 28, 2015 / fears and phobias, friendships, managing anxiety, managing emotions, overthinking, self esteem, self help

Think about the guy who checks his facebook, twitter and instagram accounts countless times in a day, to remain “updated”; or the girl who attends 3 parties on a Saturday night so that she doesn’t miss out on the awesome time that everyone else will have.
Today, a lot of people find themselves flitting from one event to the other, picking one novel opportunity after the other, not wanting to miss out on anything.

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DEATH ANXIETY: A SILENT FRIEND

Leave a Comment / Anger Management / Sadia Saeed / April 8, 2015 / fear of death, fears and phobias, managing anxiety, self help

Death Anxiety is not simply anxiety about dying but anxiety about not living meaningfully. Culturally, we are averse to talking of death. However, awareness of one’s finite time on this planet in this form is probably one of the most important factors for living meaningfully. What “living well” means is unique to you but it requires some deep exploration from your end.

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IT IS JUST AN INTRUSIVE THOUGHT!– DEALING WITH GUILT IN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER

6 Comments / Stress Management / Inner Space Team / March 12, 2014 / anxiety disorder, managing anxiety, negative thoughts, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, overthinking

If you have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, you know what it feels like to have recurrent intrusive negative thoughts. These thoughts come out of nowhere, make you anxious and make you do things to undo their effect. They make you feel guilty- guilty for just having these thoughts!

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IS IT ONLY YOUR MIND THAT’S ANXIOUS, OR YOUR BODY TOO?

Leave a Comment / Anxiety / Inner Space Team / October 10, 2013 / health and wellness, managing anxiety, mind and body, negative thoughts, overthinking

It is World Mental Health Day!

There wouldn’t have been a better time to talk about one of the most common afflictions as far as mental health is concerned, something that almost all of us face – ‘Anxiety’.

Be it seeing after your children or making it on time to work, several situations give us the “on the edge” feeling.

When we talk of dealing with or managing anxiety, we think about it the mental way. We try to take things easy, we try to consciously ask ourselves to ‘calm down’ and stay focused.

However, what we tend to ignore is that –
Anxiety is as much in the body as it is in the mind

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IT’S AN UNPLEASANT THOUGHT, NOT A FACT

Leave a Comment / Stress Management / Inner Space Team / September 23, 2013 / managing anxiety, managing depression, managing emotions, negative thoughts, overthinking

“My life is pathetic”

“Others are so much happier than I am!”

“I will never be able to make friends”

These are thoughts aren’t they? Often, we experience distress, anxiety, discomfort and a lot of pain because of our thoughts. We have a thought or a belief about something, which causes us stress.

In the course of life, our mind is flooded with thoughts. If you take even a minute to be aware of your mind, you will know just how active your mind really is. It is constantly evaluating, judging or making sense of events around it. Such is the nature of the mind. The mind as a faculty thinks and interprets events.

However, what happens when our thoughts begin to distress us? When this mental chatter begins weighing us down? For some of you, your mind thinks certain things over and over again. Or, it thinks in a certain way over and over. It keeps going on about how lonely or unwanted you are, or about how you are uncertain if you are heading in the right direction in life. How then can you deal with it?

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EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES [EFT]

2 Comments / Stress Management / Inner Space Team / January 18, 2012 / managing anxiety, managing depression, managing emotions, mental health, psychology

I was introduced to Emotional Freedom Techniques [EFT] as part of my course in Integrated Clinical Hypnotherapy and have been fascinated with it ever since. Further training in the AAMET certified advanced EFT helped in revealing multiple effective ways of application. It’s a simple technique which effectively heals everything from negativity, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, fears, addictions and cravings to aches and pains among many others. This technique is being effectively applied world-wide and is now beginning to create an impact in India as well.

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Dealing With Obsessive Perfectionism

Leave a Comment / Stress Management / Inner Space Team / December 29, 2011 / managing anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, self esteem, stress management

‘I strive to be perfect!! Well, not always; but there are a few areas where I seek perfection.’ Such areas could be studies, one’s appearance or work related projects. Perfectionism in one or more areas is a trait some of us identify with. We want a perfect state of mind before we begin work and a smooth, perfect route to task completion. The question I want to raise here is – Does the quest for perfection help or hurt? You might say, “both”.

My next question would be, “does it hurt more than it helps?” Wait a minute, you don’t have to answer me immediately.
I’d like you to take a few minutes though and think about this before you continue reading. It is an important question for you.

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WHY DO WE GET ANXIOUS?

2 Comments / Anxiety / Inner Space Team / November 28, 2011 / causes of anxiety, managing anxiety, mental health, stress management, treatment of anxiety

Anxiety – that uncomfortable feeling in the pit of your stomach, making you uneasy and jittery.. what causes that? Why do we get anxious?

A good chunk of the answer to this lies in our thought processes. We often have recurrent patterns of thought that cause, contribute to or maintain anxiety. Some such thoughts are described in this blog.

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WHAT IS ANXIETY?

2 Comments / Anxiety / Inner Space Team / November 17, 2011 / causes of anxiety, managing anxiety, mental health, symptoms of anxiety

Anxiety can be described as a state where one experiences symptoms that are bodily, emotional, behavioural and cognitive (involving thought and mental processes). Tension, worry, nervousness and apprehension are some of the words commonly used to describe anxiety.

We have all experienced anxiety, be it in the form of nervousness before going up on stage, tension for exam, apprehension about a decision, worry for our kids or stress for an office presentation. Anxiety can range from being mildly discomforting to severely debilitating and if not dealt with properly can manifest as disorders that negatively affect your daily lives.

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YOUR STRUGGLE WITH YOURSELF: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

5 Comments / Stress Management / Sadia Saeed / June 14, 2011 / conflicts, managing anger, managing anxiety, negative thoughts, relationship issues, stress management

What happens when what you think does not agree with what you also think?

Whether you are aware of it or not, it happens all the time! That’s the phenomenon sophisticatedly known in psychology as cognitive dissonance. Let’s take an example we knew in our childhood. Haven’t we all heard of the story of the fox and the sour grapes? In the story the fox has two conflicting thoughts: -“the grapes are sweet’. “I cannot have them.”

The fox’s resolution of the conflict is inducing the belief “the grapes are sour”. What the fox technically does is resolves its state of cognitive dissonance because it is too difficult to accept the two conflicting thoughts.

Much as we laugh and scorn at this silly fox, we do similar things all the time.

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managing anxiety

The Fear Of Missing Out: Am I Doing Enough?

DEATH ANXIETY: A SILENT FRIEND

IT IS JUST AN INTRUSIVE THOUGHT!– DEALING WITH GUILT IN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER

IS IT ONLY YOUR MIND THAT’S ANXIOUS, OR YOUR BODY TOO?

IT’S AN UNPLEASANT THOUGHT, NOT A FACT

EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES [EFT]

Dealing With Obsessive Perfectionism

WHY DO WE GET ANXIOUS?

WHAT IS ANXIETY?

YOUR STRUGGLE WITH YOURSELF: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

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