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title: "Notes from Session Actions against Anxiety"
tags: psychology mental-health mad
date: 2021-01-29 14:16:44
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# Notes from Session Actions against Anxiety

Context: Session by Abhishek Thakore as part of Transformation Leadership

Big Five Personality Test
- Neuroticism - there might be a genetic/biological factor - they might be more predisposed to be anxious.

We live in a culture that promotes anxiety.

### Parasitic Processing by John Vervaeke

![Parasitic Processing by John Vervaeke](https://d3i71xaburhd42.cloudfront.net/f84a1d32243fdae5932f4b6a3588324d3447d68f/15-Figure4-1.png)

Stimulus -> Response

In the case of parasitic processing, the response will look for more Stimulus - creating a loop.

You can put a pause between the Stimulus and the response.

Response is generally...
- Meaning Making
- Future Planning
- Ego response(self concern)

Pausing Mechanism

- Stoicism
- Practice : You have to do the pause method as a matter of practice. You will only do the method when you are anxious if you do it regularly.
- Boundaries : You have to find the right distance from the cause - being too close will make you dysfunctional.
- Faith
- Self Love

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### Tags
#psychology #mental-health #mad