Keep Your Health, Not Your Anxiety

Keep your Health, Not your Anxiety

12-19-15

Saturday

Happiness Day

Anxiety can become a disease

If it’s let to grow

Diseases are progressive

They only get worse

You need to cure that disease

Before it sets too deeply

If you don’t

You’ll continue to suffer

Anxiety destroys your health

Mentally and physically

It’s powerful

It’s course is predictive

Your mental state will deteriorate

And eventually so will your physical well being

Anxiety will increase

And worsen

Disease ends in death

Whether sudden or protracted

Always before it’s time

Choose your time

Don’t let your choice be made for you

Choose anxiety or choose happiness

The choice is yours

It’s up to you

Dr. Tony

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Anxiety is a Disease

Anxiety is a Disease

12-18-15

Friday

Healthy Living Day

 Anxiety

It’s a disease

Diseases are departures from health

They are not good

Don’t depart from your health

Disease

It means to “dis”, to “separate from”

Don’t separate yourself from your health

Don’t choose

The disease of anxiety

Choose calm

Not dis-ease

Keep your “ease”

Ease is freedom from pain

Freedom from worry and agitation and anxiety

Choose serenity

Peace, love and joy

And Freedom

They are all calm

Choose them

Be calm!

Credit: Scenescapery

Enough said

Dr. Tony

Anxiety Is Everywhere

Anxiety is Everywhere

12-17-15

Thursday

Caring for Self Day

Anxiety is everywhere

It sure seems like it

So much bothers me.

When I’m anxious

I find it everywhere

I need to stop it

It’s spreading like a disease

Maybe it is

It’s here and it’s there

And it seems like it’s looking for me

Or am I looking for it?

Remember!

It’s a worry

And one worry leads to another

I’ve got to stop it

Anxiety

It lurks in every corner

It stares me in the face

And I welcome it

It sure seems that way

Because I’m always thinking about it

I just can’t stop it

Anxiety

Let’s find solutions

Let’s not make it our friend

I don’t really want it

It isn’t my friend

I’ll find the solutions

I’ll get the help I need

I will!

Dr. Tony

The Origin of Overreaction

The Origin of Overreaction

12-16-15

Wednesday

Relationship Day

Overreaction’s Origin

In the time of the Cave Man

She and he

Faced many dangers

It was the time for “fight or flight”

If you couldn’t outrun the beast

You had to fight him

It was the time to react swiftly

Fight or flight

It’s no longer that time

We no longer have the constant need

To physically protect ourselves

Or we better not think we do

That time is over

We must accept the new reality

It’s the time to think

Think and respond

Think calmly

Then and only then respond

The cave man now

Needs to be turned into  

The Thinking Man

Homo Sapiens

The wise man

No more overreaction

Take a deep breath

Breath!

It’s time to respond

It’s time to think clearly and calmly

You will rarely come across a beast

It’s the time to think

It’s a time for wisdom

Dr. Tony

More on Overreaction

More on Overreaction

12-15-15

Tuesday

Child and Family

 

Overreaction

It’s the prelude to anxiety

Which is a worry about what might happen

Not just a concern

But a worry

Followed by another and another…

Worrying 

It’s a troubled state of mind

It’s anxiety

It’s distress, it’s uneasiness

It’s not a healthy state

It’s not helpful

Overreaction

It leads to anxiety

But anxiety doesn’t build up

All by itself

It takes me to fuel the fire

Which I cause by my overreaction

We fuel the fire

It only burns as hot as we make it

It may first be just a flicker of a flame

Don’t overreact

By adding a new worry

That will make the fire grow

Stop the fire of anxiety

Don’t add on another worry

It will only make it worse

Stop!

Dr. Tony

Anxiety is an Overreaction

Anxiety is an Overreaction

12-14-15

Monday

Love Day

Anxiety is an Overreaction

I realize that because I frequently overreact

I’m beginning to recognize that

And it is not healthy

Overreaction

Involves reacting with more energy than is called for

And it is usually due to strong emotion

Unfortunately strong emotion inhibits rational thinking

Overreaction

Is usually unnecessary

It’s not a good habit

Because it creates anxiety

Overreaction

I sometimes overreact to people

But more generally I overreact within myself

And that’s how I cause my anxiety

Respond

It’s the substitute for reacting

It involves thinking clearly

And calmly

Clarity and calmness

They help prevent overreaction

Choose them

They are much healthier

More to come

Because we need to deal with this

It’s a major cause of anxiety

We need to resolve this tendency

To overreact

Dr. Tony

The Start of My Anxiety

The Start of My Anxiety

11-13-15

Sunday

Spirituality Day

The Start!

I wanted to be helpful

So I helped

I wanted to impress others

So I helped

I wanted to be liked

So I helped

And I got anxiety

Another start!

I didn’t do what I was supposed to do

And it built up

I put it off until later

And it built up

I said “yes’ when I should have said “no”

And it built up

And now I’ve got anxiety

A third start!

I looked for excitement

And I got it

I looked for trouble

And I got it

I looked for alcohol and drugs and more

And I got it

And I got anxiety too

Maybe it’s time to change the story

I’ve got to get out of this mess

It’s causing terrible anxiety

I’m going to do something about it

Credit: Scenescapery

Dr. Tony