Calm Anxiety: Taking Back Control

Why am I more anxious than my friends, family and colleagues?Why do I get so scared in certain situations?What is wrong with me?Anxiety feels awful. The speeding heart and rapid breathing, the sweating, trembling, feeling 'on-edge' and that sense of impending danger are all extremely powerful. They descend upon us without warning and we cannot seem to stop them. These thoughts, feelings and behaviours, over which we have virtually no control, affect us deeply.
Such powerful feelings and so little control - it's no wonder that anxiety can be seen as an awful problem, a terrible weakness, something that has to be eradicated from our lives at all cost. Yet anxiety is a vital part of being human. Essentially to help us survive, to keep us alive, anxiety sits quietly in the background waiting to spring into action when needed in times of danger. So why do I get anxious when there is no danger?Why do I have more anxiety than others?How can I stop it?When the answer to these questions involves labels such as 'disorder' and 'illness' and provides treatments that offer no real control, it's easy to be drawn into a self-defeating belief system about anxiety.
But it doesn't have to be like this. If we look at anxiety through the lens of evolution and survival, and see how it rises up to protect us as a result of new, modern-day threats (some of which didn't even exist just a generation ago), a very different picture emerges. Persistent stressful situations such as conflict in the family, at school or at work and worries over relationships, money or health can make us feel insecure and vulnerable for much of the time.
And these are situations that we cannot avoid, fight our way out of or flee from. They happen frequently and regularly, and each time our anxiety rises just that little bit more. For many of us, this is how anxiety builds up... slowly and silently.'Calm Anxiety...' offers a totally new way to understand and deal with the increased anxiety that plagues so many of us today. It reveals how we become so anxious in the first place and shows how to transform this anxiety into new found confidence.
PART I examines the current beliefs and theories about anxiety-related problems and how these influence not only everything we believe about our anxiety but also what we think about our self. PART II explores anxiety through the lens of human evolution and survival. What is it? Why do we have it? How does it work? Here, you'll discover the truth about anxiety today and why so many people are developing problems.
PART III guides you step-by-step how to remove the fear, stop the anxiety and restore high self-esteem.