Anxiety runs in a loop, and once you can see the loop, you can break it. Say speeches are tomorrow. Trigger. Your brain goes "what if I mess up and everyone laughs": thought. Heart races, stomach knots: feeling. So you avoid practising, because thinking about it feels bad: behaviour. And avoiding feels better... for about an hour. Here's the trap: every time you avoid, your brain writes it down. "We dodged it, so it must've been dangerous." And next time, the alarm fires faster. The loop has one weak point, and it's the avoiding. Find it on the cycle and tap where you'd break it.
Anxiety runs in a loop, and once you can see the loop, you can break it. Here's the loop for one real example: speeches are tomorrow.
Tap where it breaks
Tap the step where you would break the loop.
Avoidance works because it removes the scary feeling... but it also teaches your brain: yes, that thing IS dangerous. So next time, the alarm goes off even faster.
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