Take Ownership of Your Anxiety

Take Ownership of Your Anxiety

9/5/16

Monday

  

Take Ownership of Your Anxiety

The way out of my anxiety

Is to take ownership of it.

It’s my anxiety.

I am the cause of it.

It’s my responsibility to deal with it.

It’s not yours to do,

It’s mine.

I am the way out.

I have the keys to the kingdom,

Where love and peace and joy reside.

Only I can turn the key,

Only I can do it.

And I will.

I will find the way out,

No matter what it takes.

I will do it.

Dr. Tony

Chapter Two, On Anxiety

Chapter Two, On Anxiety

8/10/16

Wednesday

This chapter is about anxiety.

In its extreme form,

We refer to it as panic.

We write a separate chapter on anxiety

Because it is the main issue of the book,

Anxiety and its treatment.

Anxiety is the most prevalent

Of all mental health issues.

It causes a great deal of stress in people’s lives.

It may be fair to say, that everyone

Has been affected to some degree

By anxiety.

In this chapter It is our goal

To help people

Understand anxiety.

The next chapter

Will help people

Deal with their anxiety.

Dr. Tony

My Anxiety Course

My Anxiety Course

8/1/16

Monday

What’s special about my course,

It’s mine,

Not Dr. Tony’s.

I am in charge of it. 

I am the teacher.

I can direct this course as I wish.

My success depends totally on me.

It is my personal course.

I know what I want and what I need.

I will not flunk my own course.

It’s the best course ever,

Because it’s mine.

Dr. Tony

Your Unique 16 Step Anxiety Reduction Course

Your Unique 16 Step Anxiety Reduction Course

7/30/16

Saturday

As we have said in the previous poem,

You are the teacher of this course.

It’s your own private classroom.

The 16 Steps provide the course content.

You are the guide.

You make all the decisions

On how the course unfolds.

You can do the steps in any order you prefer.

You can skip around.

It’s your show.

You know what you like.

You know what works for you.

Do what feels good,

What gets results.

You’re the teacher.

What makes this course so special?

It’s your own personal journey.

You hold the rudder.

You steer the ship.

You are the captain.

Dr. Tony

16-Step Anxiety Program

16-Step Anxiety Program

4-20-16

Wednesday

Anxiety Reduction Month

16-Step Anxiety Program

 The 16-Step Anxiety Program

The List

1. Ask for help from the wisdom within you.

2.      Believe your wisdom will take care of you.

3. Focus on the present and be mindful.

4. Think positive thoughts

5. Understand the consequences of negative thinking.

6. Identify the onset of anxiety.

                                                                                                                                                                                    

7. Let peace and calm replace anxiety.

8. Learn from the past

9. Breathe for inner peace.

10. Discover your anxiety triggers.

11. Avoid negative persons, places and things.

12. Use the calmness scale.

13. Avoid negative thinking.

14. Trust God will help.

15. Do your part in feeling better.

16. The way out of anxiety.

Dr. Tony

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The 16-Step Anxiety Program

The 16-Step Anxiety Program

4-18-16

Monday

Anxiety Reduction Month

The 16-Step Anxiety Program

 

This program may be viewed

As a Healthy Living Program,

Or merely as an Anxiety Reduction Program.

They are both the same.

The goal is the same:

Love, peace and Joy

What we are saying is,

Anxiety reduction

Takes the same path as

Healthy living takes.

There is no difference,

Just the names.

Both paths will produce

A healthy life,

Physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

The path will be your path,

Because this is a self-development program.

You are the director of the program.

All I have done,

Is give you 16 steps,

To choose as you wish,

How you wish and when you wish

I am merely your guide

You are the master of your destiny

More tomorrow on your path

Your guide

Dr. Tony

The Way out of Anxiety

The Way out of Anxiety

4-17-16

Sunday

Anxiety Reduction Month

Anxiety Solutions 

“The Way Out of Anxiety”

This is the sixteenth Solution

On the anxiety solution list

What’s the way out of anxiety?

WORK!

That’s what it will take

To release your anxiety.

You’re going to have to work.

By work we mean,

It will take motivation,

A lot of energy,

And commitment,

To our new anxiety program

During these previous sixteen days,

We have posted sixteen

Anxiety reducing solutions.

We will now call them

“Anxiety releasing solutions”.

These sixteen solutions

Will become the heart of the our anxiety program,

Which  we will use in counseling,

And which also can be used

Outside the counseling setting.

The program will involve

Addressing the anxiety solutions

We have been posting the last sixteen days.

It will be called

The 16 Step Anxiety Program.

Tomorrow we will further discuss this program.

I believe it will make your life much easier.

Dr. Tony

Anxiety Reduction Do Your Part

Anxiety Reduction

Do Your Part

4-16-16

Saturday

Anxiety Reduction Month

Photography Credit: Scenescapery

Anxiety Solutions

“Do your Part”

This is the fifteenth solution

On our anxiety solution list

There is no anxiety solution without me.

Only I can solve the riddle.

Only I have the ultimate solution.

Only I am in charge of my life,

And of my anxiety.

Thank you for giving me the wisdom

To heal my anxiety.

The wisdom is already within me.

It has always been there.

I have always been able to be the master of my destiny.

So has it been ordained

From all eternity.

I am able to do—

All I need to do.

The answer is within me.

My task is to search within,

And find the answer.

It awaits my discovery.

I have the wisdom,

And the energy to make the needed changes.

Do I have the motivation

To use the energy,

And tap the wisdom?

In order to be healed

I must say

I do!

Dr. tony

Focus on the Present

Focus on the Present

4-4-16

Monday

April is Anxiety Reduction Month

Anxiety Solutions

 

“Focus on the Present”

This is the third solution

On our anxiety solution list.

This present moment is all that exists,

Nothing else does.

Neither the past—It’s gone forever.

Nor the future—it hasn’t arrived.

All that exists is “now”.

Why fret over what no longer exists?

It makes no sense.

It’s nonsense. It’s unreal.

Then let’s be masters of the moment.

And the only way to master it,

Is to embrace it, love it

And live it.

This moment is perfect.

It possesses all you need

To succeed.

Nurture this moment.

Mindfulness

It’s the magic of being in this very moment.

It’s not the here, there and everywhere of anxiety.

It’s the now of peace and calm.

Anxiety cannot exist in mindfulness’ presence.

They are opposites.

They cannot live together.

Choose the now of mindfulness.

It’s the present.

Dr. Tony

Believe in Your Wisdom

Believe in Your Wisdom

4-3-16

Sunday

April is Anxiety Reduction Month

Anxiety solution

 

“Believe your wisdom will take care of you”.

This is the second solution

On our anxiety solution list.

“Your wisdom”

What is that?

It’s something within you,

And it’s at your disposal.

But where did it come from?

Of course, it came from within you,

But who put it there?

God?

You can give it another name,

Other than God.

It’s your wisdom.

It’s your choice.

It doesn’t matter.

It’s only a name.

You may give it a thousand different names,

But they all may mean the same.

Believe!

That may be easier said than done.

We’re not used to just believing.

How do I believe?

Who or what can I depend upon?

Use the name of your choice.

Since the wisdom is within you,

Maybe It can be depended upon.

Remember!

Believing doesn’t bring absolute certainty.

That’s called “knowing,”

That’s not believing.

Believe in the Being behind the name you use.

Believe!

And it will happen.

Maybe not the way you envisioned it.

But you will find answers,

And they will be

Anxiety Solutions

Believe me!

Dr. Tony

Ask for Help

Ask for Help

4-2-16

Saturday

April is Anxiety Reduction Month

Anxiety Solution

Photography: Scenescapery 

Ask for help from the wisdom within you.

This is the first solution

On our anxiety solution list.

Don’t we all need help?

There’s never anything wrong with asking for help,

Especially if you ask the right person.

It could be

God,

Your higher power,

Your inner life force,

The Spirit within.

Ask someone greater than you.

But you can’t ask for help,

If you don’t believe it will be given to you.

That’s the challenge!

You must trust and believe

That magnificent being,

That one above them all,

As you believe that one to be,

The Force,

The One.

Be humble!

Ask!

Help is available.

It awaits you specifically.

It calls out your name.

Listen, listen, listen,

Be still,

And you will hear that beautiful melodious voice.

Dr. Tony

Anxiety Solutions

Anxiety Solutions

3-31-16

Thursday

Caring for Self Day

Anxiety Solutions

Dr. Tony’s Anxiety Solutions

And the Wisdom Within

That is the title of the book that I am writing.

The following is a list of

Anxiety Solutions,

That will be addressed in the book

And in my April poems.

The Wisdom Within

Is your wisdom,

You the reader of the poems.

The List

--Ask for help from the wisdom within you.

--Believe your wisdom will take care of you.

--Focus on the present.

--Think positive thoughts.

--Understand the consequences of negative thinking.

--Identify the onset of anxiety.

--Replace anxiety with peace and calm.

--Learn from the past, how to reduce anxiety.

--Breathe for inner peace.

--Discover anxiety triggers.

--Avoid the persons, places and things associated with anxiety.

--Use the anxiety/calmness scale.

--Uncover the negative thoughts that create anxiety.

--Put energy into the process of finding solutions.

And if you do all this,

You will be free of anxiety,

And I will walk you through this

In the next month and beyond.

Dr. Tony