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05/04/2019 9:59 am
Is there a difference between Fear, Worry and Anxiety?
Is making a distinction useful?
What does this have to do with our Shadow?
What do you think?
10/04/2019 7:08 pm
This is one of my Anxiety "zombies" or complexes. It's not quite shadow as I know it well. But shadow in the sense of an aspect I really wish I didn't have. Hard to love this guy, but it's just trying to do a job and got caught in an over-functioning loop.
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15/12/2019 9:26 pm
According to Dr Burton, anxiety can be defined as "a state of psychological and physical symptoms brought about by a sense of apprehension at a perceived threat."
Fear is similar to anxiety, except that with the fear the threat is, or is perceived to be more concrete, present, or immediate.
The shadow is the unknown side, an unconscious aspect of the personality which the conscious ego does not identify in itself.
Ego uses defence mechanisms to reduces anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli. This stimuli can be a part of the shadow complex.
Worry tends to be specific while anxiety is more diffuse. Worry often triggers problem solving but anxiety does not. Worry creates mild emotional distress, anxiety can create severe emotional distress, we tend to experience worry in our heads and anxiety in our bodies.Worry is caused by more realistic concerns than anxiety.
23/06/2020 2:32 pm
From my own experiences with anxiety, especially social anxiety, it is connected to a past event of emotional significance. This creates a fear response around this kind of event happening in the future which inhibits present awareness. I agree, anxiety isn't necessarily the shadow, it's the resistance and self-judgement around the anxiety as a perceived weakness, which is the shadow.
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26/06/2020 10:27 am
Yes, so I wonder if the anxiety response follows a triggered fear or if anxiety can present itself without a trigger.
One approach that makes sense to me is that anxiety is a psychological and body response that is trying to prepare us for a challenge - hence the increased heart rate, faster breathing, sweaty palms, etc., as well as the tunnel awareness that wants to fixate our attention on the source of the threat.
But what gives our mind the signal that it should activate this response? Perhaps it's fear, which as Aimie suggests, is conditioned, or taps into an instinctive fear like loss of security, pain or social rejection.
As long as that fear lives and grows in the shadow, the anxiety will keep being activated.
17/08/2020 12:12 pm
I absolutely agree Hennie - anxiety is a physical experience as well as an emotional/mental one. But I think anxiety cannot present itself w/o a trigger. The trigger may not necessarily be rooted in past conditioning/experiences, it may be related to venturing from the comfort zone, into the fear zone and subsequently into the growth zone. "The unknown" could very well be the trigger of the anxiety.
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Topic starter
05/04/2019 9:59 am
Is there a difference between Fear, Worry and Anxiety?
Is making a distinction useful?
What does this have to do with our Shadow?
What do you think?
10/04/2019 7:08 pm
This is one of my Anxiety "zombies" or complexes. It's not quite shadow as I know it well. But shadow in the sense of an aspect I really wish I didn't have. Hard to love this guy, but it's just trying to do a job and got caught in an over-functioning loop.
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15/12/2019 9:26 pm
According to Dr Burton, anxiety can be defined as "a state of psychological and physical symptoms brought about by a sense of apprehension at a perceived threat."
Fear is similar to anxiety, except that with the fear the threat is, or is perceived to be more concrete, present, or immediate.
The shadow is the unknown side, an unconscious aspect of the personality which the conscious ego does not identify in itself.
Ego uses defence mechanisms to reduces anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli. This stimuli can be a part of the shadow complex.
Worry tends to be specific while anxiety is more diffuse. Worry often triggers problem solving but anxiety does not. Worry creates mild emotional distress, anxiety can create severe emotional distress, we tend to experience worry in our heads and anxiety in our bodies.Worry is caused by more realistic concerns than anxiety.
23/06/2020 2:32 pm
From my own experiences with anxiety, especially social anxiety, it is connected to a past event of emotional significance. This creates a fear response around this kind of event happening in the future which inhibits present awareness. I agree, anxiety isn't necessarily the shadow, it's the resistance and self-judgement around the anxiety as a perceived weakness, which is the shadow.
Topic starter
26/06/2020 10:27 am
Yes, so I wonder if the anxiety response follows a triggered fear or if anxiety can present itself without a trigger.
One approach that makes sense to me is that anxiety is a psychological and body response that is trying to prepare us for a challenge - hence the increased heart rate, faster breathing, sweaty palms, etc., as well as the tunnel awareness that wants to fixate our attention on the source of the threat.
But what gives our mind the signal that it should activate this response? Perhaps it's fear, which as Aimie suggests, is conditioned, or taps into an instinctive fear like loss of security, pain or social rejection.
As long as that fear lives and grows in the shadow, the anxiety will keep being activated.
17/08/2020 12:12 pm
I absolutely agree Hennie - anxiety is a physical experience as well as an emotional/mental one. But I think anxiety cannot present itself w/o a trigger. The trigger may not necessarily be rooted in past conditioning/experiences, it may be related to venturing from the comfort zone, into the fear zone and subsequently into the growth zone. "The unknown" could very well be the trigger of the anxiety.
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