Tame Your Anxiety Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness

Loretta Graziano Breuning

eBook - 2019

Anxiety is natural. Calm is learned.If you didn't learn yesterday, you can learn today.It's not easy, of course. Once your natural alarm system is triggered, it's hard to find the off switch. Indeed, you don't have an off switch until you build one. Tame Your Anxiety shows you how.Readers learn about the brain chemicals that make us feel threatened and the chemicals that make us feel safe. You'll see how your brain turns on these chemicals with neural pathways built from past experience, and, most important, you discover your power to build new pathways, to enjoy more happy chemicals, and reduce threat chemicals.This book does not tell you to imagine yourself on a tropical beach. That's the last thing you want ...when you feel like a lion is chasing you. Instead, you will learn to ask your inner mammal what it wants and how you can get it. Each time you step toward meeting a survival need, you build the neural pathways that... more