Chronic anxiety is essentially a build up of emotion that gets 'stuck' in our neurology. It might help to think of emotions being like water running through a hose. It just flows through until its gone. But when we get a kink in the hose, the pressure builds up and the flow reduces. Likewise, with anxiety, the flow of our usual emotion is reduced and all we can feel is the tension building up. Even though our conscious mind realises that emotions just flow through us, our unconscious mind does not really understand this. Without conscious reassurance, it essentially views those vulnerable emotions as being a kind of permanent or life threatening force that it needs to protect itself from by blocking them. That very blockage however is the very cause of chronic anxiety. Therefor, anxiety can simply be defined as our unconscious fear of experiencing vulnerable emotions.

Our modern day societal expectations have conditioned us to believe that we have to see ourselves to be a certain way, that certain way probably has little room for the expression of these feelings. Our cave man ancestors would have been too busy trying to survive to worry about striving for the comforts our modern day life has conditioned us to expect. So whilst our world has changed, our physiological functions have not adapted so fast. Anxiety is the evolutionary hangover our species is now waking up with.

What our unconscious defences are therefor trying to protect us from now is not our physical death, but what psychologists refer to as 'death of the ego'. To put it simply, humiliation, shame, guilt, regret or just plain old loosing control of ourselves or the situation we are in. This is especially acute in front of people who we want to view us in a certain way.

We can say then that anxiety is our fear of not being able to cope. To get rid of the anxiety therefor, we need to let go of certain beliefs to remove the blockage and get the emotions flowing through again.

If you are currently overwhelmed by anxiety, chronic or acute and you would like to learn how to overcome anxiety in four simple steps, this book is for you. You will explore the different types of anxiety and learn more about how these anxieties are formed so that you can become better equipped to overcome the anxiety that you are dealing with.