Living Without Worry: How to Replace Anxiety with Peace By Timothy Lane
In my last blog, I mentioned a few changes that I made in the newly revised version of my book on worry. Feel free to read about the first change here.
The other changes you’ll find in the newly revised version involve how our brain and autonomic nervous system functions when we are struggling with anxiety. Since we are both body and soul, understanding how the body works can be helpful for all of us who struggle with anxiety.
Here is another brief excerpt from the book about anxiety and the autonomic nervous system followed by some helpful tools to navigate anxiety and better regulate the nervous system:
The Anatomy of Worry
You may remember learning about the autonomic nervous system at some point in school. Our nervous system is hard-wired to keep us alive. It is all about survival. That is a good thing. But when our nervous system is fighting to keep us alive and there is not apparent danger, that is a nervous system that is working overtime. That is the nature of anxiety. A good thing has been hijacked and now is creating all of
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