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A practical guide to emotional resilience in modern life, managing anxiety and finding confidence, by a popular Nero-Linguistic Programmer, Pilates teacher and Transformational Life Coach.
The Anxiety Antidote makes understanding and dealing with anxiety easy and practical. The book offers tools and techniques that the reader can apply quickly on a daily basis, such as exercises on self-reflection, breath work, mindfulness and visualisation.
As a practical, "how to" self-help book, the reader will get a deeper understanding of their anxiety from a cognitive and emotional point of view, allowing them to transform their mind and emotions quickly, for the better. Taking into account our modern habits of absorbing information, the book contains "bite-sized" inspiring chapters that link to further in-depth chapters, which take the reader on a motivating journey.
With leading Neuro-Linguistic Programmer, Integral Eye Movement Therapy and Transformational Life Coach Kamran Bedi as your guide, gain a deeper awareness of what anxiety is, how it is formed subjectively, the physical symptoms and a set of practical tools that you can use to eradicate anxiety from your life.
Author Notes
Kamran Bedi is a mental health and wellbeing practitioner who uses Neuro-Linguistic Programming in his work. Find out more at: kamranbedi.com
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Publisher's Weekly Review
In this competent guide, life coach Bedi (Your Mind Is Your Home) details exercises intended to relieve anxiety. Contending that the "mind directly influences the body," the author offers advice on identifying and inhibiting cognitive drivers of anxious behavior. He notes that worrying about hypothetical situations can produce anxiety and encourages readers to break ruminative cycles by "looking at the big picture" and focusing on the current moment. The author urges readers to interrogate the underlying motives of their anxiety and recounts how a client who feared she "wasn't good enough" for a job opening realized her anxiety stemmed from her aversion to feeling vulnerable and outside her comfort zone. Bedi notes that repressing, ignoring, or avoiding anxiety can strengthen it, and recommends using hypnosis to uncover unconscious sources of unease. The advice sometimes oversimplifies, as when Bedi entreats readers to "isolate the source of the hurt. Find it. Work with it. Heal it and free it." However, there's plenty of worthwhile pragmatic guidance, such as the suggestion to list and reflect on moments one did not feel anxious during one's day as a means of disrupting fixation on anxiety-producing events. The result is an instructive road map for finding peace of mind. (Oct.)
Table of Contents
| General Guidelines | p. 1 |
| Introduction: A New Day Dawns | p. 3 |
| A Light Bulb Moment for Mental Health | p. 13 |
| Life on the Edge | p. 23 |
| Part 1 Self-Awareness | p. 29 |
| From Confusion to Clarity | p. 31 |
| Where Are You in Your Mind? | p. 38 |
| Breaking the Cycles | p. 43 |
| Feeling Present | p. 44 |
| Look at the Big Picture | p. 52 |
| Explaining the Unknown | p. 57 |
| Change Positions | p. 68 |
| Patterns of Anxiety | p. 76 |
| What's in Your Mind is in Your Body | p. 103 |
| Taking the Outside In and Experiencing the Inside Out | p. 112 |
| How Your Thoughts are Formed | p. 125 |
| Part 2 Self-Action | p. 135 |
| Gather Your Evidence | p. 136 |
| Remote Control | p. 141 |
| Mind Mapping | p. 146 |
| Taming the Beast | p. 155 |
| Understanding Your Anxious Wants and Needs | p. 161 |
| Deactivate Your Anxiety | p. 166 |
| The Control Room of Your Mind | p. 173 |
| Triggered | p. 178 |
| Becoming Accountable | p. 189 |
| Part 3 New Self | p. 195 |
| An Eye to the Future | p. 197 |
| Updating Your Mindset and Identity | p. 198 |
| Coaching Yourself | p. 205 |
| Changing Your View | p. 209 |
| Further Resources | p. 214 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 217 |
| About the Author | p. 218 |
