Creative Anxiety Management and Imagined Desensitization Program

Anxiety is the unconscious mind’s attempt to warn you of impending danger and remind you to be vigilant. It is very similar to an allergy which the unconscious mind sometimes labels innocuous substances like pollen or fragrances as threats to the body to fear and resist. Like helicopter parent, the unconscious mind can go into overdrive and drive you a little batty, as it does with panic disorder, OCD, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, etc. If the unconscious is in control of all of this, then it is only logical to work with the unconscious mind to get it to stop labeling certain things as threats and start using better, more efficient ways of taking care of you.  I know people who have very good success using MP3 downloads from an  ‘online creative anxiety management and imagined desensitization program’ which uses a combination of mindfulness, creative visualization, and imagined systematic desensitization MP3s to help people change their responses to scary thoughts and obsessions. It’s worth a try. It’s harmless, healthier than medications, and much cheaper than 5 years of weekly counseling if it works. It works better with people who can be easily absorbed in novel or a movie or story and people with good imaginations than those who cannot. There is a 20-item scale ability to benefit from visualization people can take to find out.

1.      Introduction to Creative Anxiety Management and Imagined Desensitization (PDF)

A short introduction and outline of the Anxiety Management Program

2.      20-Item Self-administered Ability to Benefit from Creative Visualization and Guided Meditation Scale (MP3)

You answer 20 questions and score yourself to estimate how well you can respond to a guided medication, creative visualization, and hypnotic program.

3.      I Am the Captain of My Ship (MP3)

Series of affirmations to help you de-identify from your physical discomfort, thoughts, emotions, and desire and realize you are the observer and the master of yourself.

4.      Heading Anxiety Off at the Pass  (Imagined Desensitization Step 1 Alert Stage) (MP3)

Learn how to set up a 1-10 Anxiety Scale and How to Handle levels 1 and 2, the earliest signs alerting to as possible fear.

5.      Meditation at Your Fingertips  (Imagined Desensitization Step 2 Distracted Stage) (MP3)

Learn how to handle levels 3 and 4 on the Anxiety Scale.

6.      Wanda and Andy: A Bedtime Story About Perfection

Re-framing one common cause of anxiety: perfectionism.

7.      The Bubble: You Can Take Home With You. Programing Comfort in the Outside World

Programing Familiarity and At Home-ness in the Outside World

8.      Put Your Earbuds in and Do As I Say: 16-Minute Panic Relief Protocol

Emergency procedures when you are having a panic attack or you anxiety seems to be getting out of control.

9.      Zen-X: Dealing with Intrusive Thought and Body Recall of Its Response to Relaxants

Learning a mindfulness approach to intrusive thoughts and tapping your body’s ability to remember its responses to past stimuli, for example Xanax.

10.  Cultivating Presence: Staying In the Here and Now

Learning how to stay present and accepting in the here and now rather than losing yourself to scary futures.

11.  Lulla-bye-bye: Relaxing Yourself to Sleep

A program to help lull you to sleep.

12.  Spell Sleep Backwards: Directions for Putting Yourself to Sleep

A program to teach you how to put yourself to sleep when needed.

Note: Some of the audio files can be purchased separately at Zen-X-Meditations dot com.