Thanks for writing down my issues. I can now just send this post to my therapist. But jokes apart, I think one has to unlearn the fear/anxiety response and then build positive motivation for achieving goals. I’m still in the process but I’ve figured that you cannot skip straight to positive motivation. Unlearning the anxiety response is critical. I’m using meditation, medication, journaling, exercise, breathing exercises, yoga to retrain my neural network.
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Reply to How do you get yourself motivated when you've always been driven by threat/anxiety/trauma? [Discussion] by ElegantCherries
Thanks for writing down my issues. I can now just send this post to my therapist. But jokes apart, I think one has to unlearn the fear/anxiety response and then build positive motivation for achieving goals. I’m still in the process but I’ve figured that you cannot skip straight to positive motivation. Unlearning the anxiety response is critical. I’m using meditation, medication, journaling, exercise, breathing exercises, yoga to retrain my neural network.