Managing Anxiety - 7
Stress often causes people to lose sight of their larger goals in the interests of simply ending the stress - and, often, that stress-ending behavior is EXACTLY the behavior that's interfering with reaching towards those larger goals. This podcast offers a tool for cooling down the stress so you can re-focus on the big picture.
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I think he was talking about himself (the poor flamingos and abandoned dogs). you switched it to a meaningless attribution of "stress". I think he's trying to tell you how he feels.
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We talk in later sessions about how he metaphorizes animals (dogs specifically). This session was about giving him a tool to manage stress. One of the central problems with anxiety is that, until you've cooled it off, it's really difficult to even have the kind of thoughts you're mentioning. To my experience, emotion can overwhelm thought; intellectual interpretations - e.g. "the baby flamingos are me" - can be helpful after your feelings have cooled to the point where you can think them through.
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