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chapter 8 Unhelpful Habits A nxiety can prove difficult to overcome, in part because it’s deep- seated and ingrained. It’s not a ...
172 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life instruments of harm (for example, a piece of rope is seen as a snake). These cognitive bias ...
Unhelpful Habits 173 prevent you from attending to other parts of your environ- ment (that is, the neutral or positive parts). I ...
174 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life images were presented for 500 milliseconds, anxious partici- pants were quick to attend to ...
Unhelpful Habits 175 improving anxiety. We showed in chapter 6 that mindful- ness meditation is one potential way of correcting ...
176 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life of the time, whereas in the attend to negative (A N) condi- tion, they were trained to noti ...
Unhelpful Habits 177 One of the great things about cognitive bias modifica- tion is that it can be conveniently used with an app ...
178 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life Exercise 8.1: Stand-alone Cognitive Bias Modification As a first step, download the app of ...
Unhelpful Habits 179 that you go through it at least once, but more practice with it would be even better. This will prime you t ...
180 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life Sometimes people doing the mantra breathing exer- cise find that they can be distracted by ...
chapter 9 Emotional Avoidance T here’s a reason people tend to avoid what they dislike: it’s unpleasant. W hy would anyone in th ...
182 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life anxiety is associated with overly cautious thoughts about the presence of danger and avoida ...
Emotional Avoidance 183 notice that you are escaping some situation in which you feel anxious and will continue to believe some ...
184 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life full- f ledged avoidance behaviors described in the previous section. Like those behaviors, ...
Emotional Avoidance 185 anxious about a situation if you think that you might eventu- ally need to use an avoidance strategy. Th ...
186 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life simultaneously think about multiple concepts, which as you learned in chapter 2, is importa ...
Emotional Avoidance 187 more accepting attitude and, thereby, alleviate your anxiety. However, there are different strategies th ...
188 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life have highlighted throughout this chapter, the answer is avoidance. From leaving the social ...
Emotional Avoidance 189 Situation → A nxious Emotion → Avoidance Behavior 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. ...
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