Anxiety – A contagious dis-ease for which we have the antidote!

If you listen around you, and particularly within yourself, you will realise that anxiety has become a highly contagious dis-ease. We have become a characteristically anxious society.

The dictionary defines anxiety as a mental state in which a person has a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome. When we are not in control but we like to be in control because that brings us the perception of safety, we feel uneasy. It seems that this human condition of wanting to be in control ("Controlitis”, lol) is the mother of anxiety. Controlitis, in turn, is the child Fear, which originated in the uncertainty of not having clarity about how things will turn out in the future, are we going to be able to cope, avoiding the possibility of feeling helplessness...

Does this sound familiar to you?

This powerful triad of Fear, (need to be in) Control and Anxiety generates a pressing need to manipulate events in life, and we become obsessed with wanting to know when, where, with whom or how a certain outcome will occur. However, life presents us with challenges in which, despite our resistance towards and our hardest attempts to control the circumstances, uncertainty consumes us, and the resulting anxiety amplifies the insecurities with which we have been programmed from childhood.

What kind of fear I hear you ask... Well, here are a few examples:

• The fear of not being enough;

• The fear of being rejected by family, friends or work collaborators;

• The anguish due to not having the necessary skills to face challenges;

• The fear of not being as good as the next person;

• The fear of pain... in all of its possible shapes and forms...

My grandmother used to live in an anxious state. I picked it up from her. I used to be anxious all the time, even after the 'event' had long finished.

But then I challenged myself with a question: Why was your grandmother anxious all the time?

And the answer surprised me (well it was also so true, so not surprising really...)

That is how she showed she cared. Anxiety was her way to say that things mattered to her. She got 'addicted' to feeling anxious and that addiction lead her to creating a constant circle of difficulties to feel anxious about! It was so powerful, it 'infected' me. The constant transmitting of messages associated with anxiety and fear on a daily basis can be very contagious.

For years, that was my reality, until I found an antidote.

An easy, simple and effective way to recognize that this addiction to anxiety was based on limiting programs I had at the the subconscious level of my mind which generated the need to control everything driven by fear of being not enough.

The antidote is a process called PSYCH-K® with which we can reprogram the system and understand that it is possible to experience life with more peace, with more joy and serenity.

With PSYCH-K®, we easily, quickly and effectively access the subconscious mind to give it new information, and in addition, we find guidance in the Principles of the ancient wisdom of Mother Nature, to support us in aligning our lives.

For example, how do you think your life would change if you could:

• Change your perception of uncertainty and chaos and see them as a bridge to harmony. (Principle of Nature: Harmony)

• Accept that doing more is not always better and that from stillness and inner peace, we have access to all the resources, gifts and talents that already exist in us and achieve results in a simpler and more effective way. (Principle of Nature: More is not always better)

• Understand that challenges are precious messengers that allow us to shed light in areas of ourselves that were in darkness; When we see them, we find qualities that strengthen us and make us more creative (Principle of Nature: Resiliency)

• Release the need to control the expectations we have about the results of life events to look at them with curiosity and in a more balanced way (Principle of Nature: Balance)

PSYCH-K® is a precious spiritual process that comes to you when you are ready to transform the learned limiting ideas that maintain the addiction to anxiety, and begin to create a more aligned life in which you discover your greatness, remember your divine essence and be the peace you seek.

If it is your time now to become a more authentic version of yourself, get in touch and I can help you change what you choose to change about your patterns of limitation.

Are you struggling with unexplained pain that just isn't responding to treatment?

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My friend Claire Baker, from Be Happy Healthy Empowered has just published an interesting article about pain, its causes and also about pain relief. She allowed me to post her article here so my readers can read it too. I think the article brings some hope to so many suffering people out there.

Claire's article follows.Are you struggling with unexplained pain that just isn't responding to treatment?


I had pain and fatigue for a long time. I took painkillers and drank gallons of caffeine so that I could push through but it just continued to get worse and eventually I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I struggled with it for 10 years, trying nutritional and physical treatments but nothing seemed to help. I might feel better for 2-3 days after a treatment but then the symptoms returned. Then I discovered a surprising reason behind my pain. In this article, I explain a little about what I discovered and how it helped me.

The Olympics have been on for the last couple of weeks and Usain Bolt won 3 gold medals for the third time. I watched him run the 200m. He is in the blocks and they are under starters orders.

* "On your Marks" - he gets into the blocks
* "Get Set" -he gets ready, the adrenaline is flowing, his muscles tighten, every part of his body is ready to spring into action when the gun fires

And I wonder how long he could hold that position if the "Go" never came. I'm sure that even Usain, the fastest athlete in the world, would struggle after even just a few minutes as his muscles tire and weaken.
Yet, many of us are held at Get Set for days, weeks or even months.

* A tight deadline at work
* Constant arguing with our partner / children
* Money worries

All of these things cause us to get stressed and go into the fight or flight reaction:

* Adrenaline is released,
* the blood leaves the organs of our body,
* the digestive system and immune system shut down,
* the blood enters the muscles causing them to tighten, to go into Get Set.

These reactions are perfect for short term stress such as running a race. Thousands of years ago, our stresses were the sabre tooth tiger coming towards you. Then, these reactions were perfect. You would run as fast as you could to escape the prowling tiger. Then you would rest, your heart beat would return to normal and the blood would leave the muscles, which could then relax, and go back into the organs as you were safe to continue digesting your dinner and fight the bacterial infection.

But our modern day stresses are different. You can't flee your job or fight your partner. So you hold it in. You stay at "Get Set". And over time:

* those tight muscles may cause structural imbalances and pain.
* You begin to have digestive problems because your food cannot be digested properly. You may get Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
* You get an infection that you are unable to fight off

So, the surprising cause of your pain could be that argument with your partner or your pressure at work.

The body has the ability to heal itself. But ongoing stress can prevent this too. So, reducing stress is an essential but often neglected part of the healing process.

When I look back to the year or so before I got ill, I had a lot of stress: a relationship breakup, working really hard to get my Masters degree, moving to a new town and starting a new job as a management consultant. I caught a virus that I never recovered from and then I started got odd pains and was really fatigue. So then, I started stressing about the symptoms themselves, which just completed the vicious cycle and started the downward spiral to fibromyalgia.

Was there any stress in the year or so before you got ill? Or is there any ongoing stress?
Here are a couple of short exercises to see if stress may still be affecting you. They can both be done with eyes closed or eyes open, although closing your eyes makes it easier to shut out distractions and take your attention.

1. Focus on your pain and quietly ask what is causing it and see if anything pops into your mind.
2. Scan your body and notice how you feel right now. Then think about a stressful event. It could be something ongoing or something from the past. Scan back through the 6 to 12 months before your pain started. As you think of an event that you found stressful, scan your body again and notice if you feel any changes in your body. It may be increased tension or pain, or you may feel the emotions that you felt at the time of the event.

If you noticed any unpleasant effects in your body as you did these exercises then this is an indication that the old stress is still affecting you now and could be contributing to pain, fatigue or other symptoms that you are feeling.

Fortunately, releasing the stress and emotions of these past events no longer requires you to talk about it for years in therapy. There are lots of new techniques in the field of energy psychology, which allow the negative impact that a stressful event still has on the body to be released in minutes - and without having to talk about it at all if you don't want to.

I found that using various energy psychology techniques to release stress and past emotional baggage enabled me to be in a calmer state which allowed the other treatments to be more effective and my pain and other symptoms reduced and my energy levels increased. The bonus was that I also felt a whole lot happier and able to break through anxiety and fears as I focused on what I actually wanted to do.

If you would like to learn more about how you can reduce stress to help your body heal, learn quick tips and techniques for managing pain and increasing energy and some of the science supporting these new approaches to health, sign up for my newsletter at

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Claire Baker