We live in stressful times. We are busier than ever. This high stress started for gen X. (The great gen had it extremely hard of course). Now younger millennials and gen Z are facing more stress of not being paid a livable wage, never owning a home, rents are through the roof and seeing man-made climate crises in real-time in many places around the world. Not to mention we have more food disparity. More than ever we are bombarded with more chemicals in water, air, food and soil. All these issues children and will suffer the brunt of as well as being pushed back into the class system, on a much larger scale than in the days of Lords. We instead fill the coffers of global corporations who still make money off us after we are dead but our families can't afford our funerals. I work with children and the one thing I see them lacking is downtime. Time to decompress and process. From morning to night it is "go, go, go". There is no room to learn about themselves, how they learn, how they feel, go for a walk or have a nap. From morning to night childhood is regulated and programmed.
Amazing, just amazing! It just makes sense!I have been trying to work on the idea "fear is the source of all suffering" - to help me understand anxiety, then after a while got stuck. But now I have the source of the fear: separation! Now I get it! It is going to help me so much to deal with my own anxiety and will guide me also as a mom. Thank you!!!!
Thank you. So we'll said, I thought that too, Fear is the source of all suffering! But never had the guts to admit it to myself. Mind, for fear & anxiety, flower essences are very helpful. Bach remedies have a number of flowers for fear but in the US, there's the Desert essences also.
I think Gordon explains this stuff better I think. Gabor goes into the fundamentals of anxiety rooting in the first childhood years. But Gordon explains it with whole childhood. I think Gabor will increase insights into the effects of anxiety in later years, addiction and unwellness etc.
My son at 12 has been alarmed about his health. He told me, "every time the doctor says I´m fine. The anxiety just finds a new place to be scared of something" - a new area of the body. It ´s easier when it becomes concrete. I would love to find a way that the deep feelings beneath the anxiety could be felt and processed.
I started to have severe anxiety at 15 when I strayed drinking coffee ☕ regularly for exams. Caffeine causes a lot of anxiety. Remember you are what you eat.
I was thinking to myself why I didn’t know this earlier, but then I realise I now know. And I will be part of my children’s lives and I will never separate from them.
Fantastic!!!! I understand all the signs I’ve been missing that my teen son puts out but I only see them the way I was trained to deal with them. Explains my issues😆
I love Gordon's lectures (: . I've often heard that things like anxiety, panic attacks & OCD can be symptoms of certain diseases, parasite infections or gut flora problems etc. I thought both this theory and Gordon's could be correct but now I'm not sure.
Gordon's is right. I had anxiety for years, then found family of origin therapy which helped remove my perceptual blindness and realise that I had experienced separation during childhood, due to family dysfunction. When I had this realisation and "felt" the pain of this and "felt" my unmet needs such as, "I really needed you to love/care/support me" etc my anxiety disappeared after 20 years. The anxiety was just a brain defence that was trying to distract me from looking at the pain in my bucket, when I had the courage to look and feel the pain, I no longer needed the anxiety to protect/distract me from it.
Gut health is a major influencer of mental health. It would make sense that gut health could predispose a person to mental angst and frustration emotionally.
What this man is saying isn't new, but maybe the way he's saying it is. All parents to be should have access to this information, then there's just no excuses left!
