#### [[notes_Solutions to Anxiety ]] **Creator**:: [[Dr. K]] **Source**:: [[course_Dr. K's Guide to Mental Health]] **Link**:: [Healthy Gamer](https://coaching.healthygamer.gg/guide/lessons/solutions-to-anxiety) ## Notes - [[Anxiety prevents us from living in the present]] - [[Anxiety tries to make us assume the worst]] - [[Your anxiety knows your insecurities better than you do]] - What does the [[mind]] do to deal with [[anxiety]]? - distraction - temporally helpful but anxiety will come back - avoidance - does not help root cause - reassurance - becomes a crutch - fight it - irrational - Solutions - bring mind back to present - [[meditation]], [[mindfulness]] - increase awareness - trains [[Frontal Lobe]]s - deal with repressed emotions - ego dissolution - anxiety is about consequences to us - reduces our value of other peoples opinions - liberates you from anxiety - surrender control of the future - [[Karma Fal]] - anxiety is trying to push you to take certain actions to avoid certain outcomes, but that isn't really possible