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Originally Posted by Mari
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4. Accept your anxiety.
Part of the struggle is when you try and control your emotions. Why not let go?
Acceptance requires little effort because you're not focused on trying to fix yourself, nor are you looking for a solution.
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Actually, I found it useful to do this with pain when I have a bad or intractable migraine. Doing it does not improve pain but it does help not to worsen it.
The thing is, I'd resist feeling the pain and fight it, which would tense me up and worsen the pain. I started just saying ok, right now I have pain, let it flow... (The 'flow' concept works for me, personally.) The result was I could prevent the added tension and thus not exacerbate the pain.