Anxiety explained with physics
A painful inner vibration
What happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable wall? It creates a vibration.
What happens when nurture and nature collide? It creates a vibration. We call this "anxiety".
Nurture = Your current beliefs.
Nature = Your genetic shape.
When your current beliefs contradict your genetics it's like an unstoppable force hitting an immovable wall. It will create a painful inner vibration known as "anxiety".
Basically stop doubting and hating yourself, and start accepting and loving yourself, and your anxiety will be gone. You will then be calm instead of vibrating :grin:
What happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable wall? It creates a vibration.
What happens when nurture and nature collide? It creates a vibration. We call this "anxiety".
Nurture = Your current beliefs.
Nature = Your genetic shape.
When your current beliefs contradict your genetics it's like an unstoppable force hitting an immovable wall. It will create a painful inner vibration known as "anxiety".
Basically stop doubting and hating yourself, and start accepting and loving yourself, and your anxiety will be gone. You will then be calm instead of vibrating :grin:
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Check this out: Kierkegaard and Existentialism
Original = different, and difference from others can increase self doubt.
So that quote just proves my original point.
What if most of your anxieties concern the welfare of those around you that you care about?
That's fear not anxiety.
Fear of loss, fear of harm, etc...
Fear is helpful.
Anxiety is caused by your irrational self doubt and self hate related to those things, triggered by those things, etc...
You just made that up. Do you have any sources for this peculiar definition of anxiety? It seems to me all you’re doing is trying to distinguish a neurotic from a healthy anxiety. You could do the same thing with all other emotions, including joy.
Isn't anxiety caused by fear? What are you talking about?
Quoting hope
Sorry my friend but you sound like one of those life coaches, who are to philosophers what mall security guys are for actual police men.
Fear and anxiety are two different things. Otherwise why have two different words?
Fear is a natural response to prediction of external harm. Anxiety is something else.
Not everything has to be complicated to be true. Also deeper explanations can be requested and given.
Yes, I think fear and anxiety can be usefully distinguished. Fear involves the anticipation of imminent, serious harm or loss. Anxiety involves the anticipation of an event that may produce a less severe harm or loss , and is not as imminent. Anxiety is worry, rumination, apprehension, restlessness. Anxiety over the upcoming medical test can turn to fear once the result is known. Both fear and anxiety can be described as neurotic or healthy, depending on the circumstances.
The strength and duration of the fear doesn't change the fact that it is still fear and not anxiety.
Anxiety as pervasive in modern society. It reflects our struggle to cope with a fast paced, constantly changing world that we are desperately trying to predict and stay one step ahead of. The quality of this feeling, they argue , is different than the intensity and immediacy of fear. That is why it is is suited to modern times , where immediate dangers to survival are uncommon, but an endless series of smaller threats abound.
Sure. The more perspectives and knowledge on the subject the better. But that does not invalidate mine.
Also maybe mine is better, and all the others are coming form the very ignorance mine attempts to expose and remove.
That’s cause you Da Man
Or maybe I just think longer and deeper.
work it
Nobody worries about those things. They just think they do because they are ignorant of the real underlying source and cause of the worry. So they blame all sorts of other things and spend their lives chasing illusions. They try to use self-esteem to fix lack of self acceptance. And conditional self-esteem is always a shaky construction therefore prone to causing worry.
You can’t have self-acceptance without self-understanding. And you can’t have self-understanding without an understanding of your world, particularly your social world and you place in it. And you can’t come to a realization of what needs to be understood about your relationships with other people , how and why they care or don’t care about you, without feeling social anxiety. Social anxiety lets us know what we are puzzled about , what we need to work on. It can be an extraordinarily creative emotion because it shakes us out of our complacency and pushes us to change and grow. I don’t know anyone who achieved healthy self-acceptance without allowing themselves to be open to anxiety and to use it to learn about themselves.
Self acceptance isnt easy. It is an endless process of development.
Or maybe it's about realizing your creator is a billion times vaster than you are so you have no right to doubt or hate yourself.
Well, all my anxieties have disappeared just by reading that. :wink:
And, I'm not sure if this is good or bad, but I've definitely stopped vibrating.
BTW, would it be possible to know where you've read all this stuff?
You're anxieties will disappear by learning how to apply it.
Quoting Apollodorus
It's my own theory.
Where is the Physics in your post?
That’s just going to make you feel worse when you do inevitably doubt or hate yourself.
What happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable wall? It creates a vibration.
This is fundamental to the nature of reality. An eternal balance of equally opposing forces underlined by vibration.
But what happens if you have no anxieties or don't act on them?
Apparently somewhere in Leviticus
Vibrations would require the wall to be movable.
Then more fully realize what I said so all the traces will be permanently removed.
Then you don't need this post.
No it's not movable, but it is made of smaller things, like everything in this universe.
This smaller things dimension is what creates time and change.
But apparently it's @hope's own theory.
I don't read books, I write them for others to read.
That's OK then.
And which books are those, if I may ask?
Maybe you should try the books then. Or maybe not ....
expereinces anxieties , how will you respond to them? Will you assume it is all part of the greater plan and simply accept the conflicts? Will you pray for guidance and try to change your world or your thinking about the world?
Can I bet to the "maybe not" case?
You can indeed. I might do that myself.
There is a subconscious fear level and a surface fear level.
Neither are anxiety.
Anxiety is deeper than both.
Bitachon. Look it up.
Bitachon cures anxiety?
Absolutely. It's the key. But you've got to believe. Emunnah isn't for everyone.
Right. But I thought it was physics? And it's supposed to be @hope's own theory.
You should have never opened such dark gates. Now anxiety seems to be our lightest problem.
Dark Night of the Soul
Hope's theory is exactly as it ought to be in order for this conversation to be as it is. That's what bitachon demands. There are no "buts." Rephrase your sentence in a positive way. Tracht gut vet zein gut I always say.
How can there be anxiety if we trust every blade of grass is exactly positioned for its purpose? I credit Hope for bringing this up.
Positivity.
Well, I've never been a particularly anxious sort of person, to be quite honest. But I can imagine that trust can have a soothing effect on those who are.
Prior to Darwin, biologists believed that God created each species to be exactly suited to its purpose. It was a simple, ordered scheme. They didn’t try to explain the relations between species because it didn’t occur to them to look for such relations. So we have two entirely different kinds of ordered schemes in the pre-Darwinian and the Darwinian model. Similarly, a fundamentalist religious view could post that God put evil in this world to give humans the opportunity to exercise free will. In this approach, the ordered scheme of the world is one of good vs evil. Like the pre-Darwinian model, it doesn’t try to probe the relation between those who do ‘evil’ and those who do ‘good’ because it doesn't occur to it that good and evil are value judgements arising g out of relatively shifting cultural contexts.
My point is that it is not enough to believe in a perfect schematic order of the world. The question is how that order is accessible to us, and what the nature of the order is. One could say that God made every person to be positioned for their purpose just as every blade of grass is positioned for its purpose. But that could mean that one sees each person as either good or evil , of a good character or bad character. In that case, one may believe that anxiety is unnecessary because all is explained. But all one has done is trade anxiety for a resigned, accepting suffering. Why? Because one has settled for a rigid explanatory scheme that fails to make sense of people’s behavior in anything but the most superficial terms.
Forest for the trees.
I was created by something a trillion times greater then your minds doubts.
Therefore not only do I have no self doubts, but the very things you doubt are my greatest strengths.
I am much happier thinking of my self as something self-creating and re-creating rather than being created by a being outside myself whose knowledge I can never have complete access to. I also have no desire for access to ‘greatness’ , only for intimate, intricate, gentle and peaceful relational understanding of others.
I AM it's knowledge
I look within myself and I see a fabrication by omniscience.
I don't need knowledge of my own because I'm already perfect and complete as I AM.
and anyone who contradicts my being is automatically and instantly proven ignorant. Because my being comes from something a trillion times greater than the doubts and judgments from a limited human mind.
When you go beyond your own doubts and judgments you will simultaneously go beyond all doubts and judgments from every mind on earth.