Overcome Anxiety

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If you suffer from severe anxiety you are not alone. Over 19 million Americans today, are overwhelmed by anxiety and fear that significantly interferes with their daily lives. When this occurs, it is known as an anxiety disorder.

Anxiety disorders are very real and not something that you can just "snap out of." Anxiety can manifest itself in the form of emotions like fear, panic and depression as well as physically in the form of headaches, nausea, and dizziness. The cause is sometimes physiological for others psychological but often a combination of the two. In any case, although anxiety disorders are serious and can be terrifying, the good news is simple mental exercises offer relief.

Findings by Harvard, Columbia , and other medical researchers show that by using a skill like letting go or releasing, anxiety symptoms can be lessened and in many cases eliminated altogether. Releasing is a mental exercise similar to prayer or meditation but independent of religious and spiritual teachings. The skill is easily learned. It has been taught to children as well as adults and once learned can be used during a stressful event or in quiet reflection.

Releasing is different from repression where feelings such as anxiety are pushed down inside, stored in the psyche and often expressed at a later time. Instead the anxiety or other feelings are let go, or released from the mind, and when done properly, the result is permanent. As with any skill the results get better with practice as has been shown by the many users of this skill.

Releasing was popularized by a 42 year old scientist named Lester Levinson after a near death experience. Lester had a massive heart attack and was given very little hope for survival. He was sent home to be on bed rest indefinitely. What he discovered following his heart attack and subsequent death sentence allowed him to cheat death and open the doors to effortless success, happiness, and life for many, many people.

You probably know some famous people who have learned this exercise. Joan Collins of the television show Dynasty, Tom Hopkins a nationally known sales trainer, Shaun Cassidy the music and television star, and John Wooden the winningest college basketball coach of all time, and many others have benefited from learning to let go and release.

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