The document discusses how cognitive methods can be used to control anxiety. It notes that anxiety may be caused by mental, physical, or drug-related factors and recommends checking with a doctor. It then provides tips for controlling anxiety through changing negative and fearful thoughts, such as focusing on present moments rather than the past or future, accepting possibilities instead of envisioning problems, relaxing through deep breathing, exercising, making plans, and getting social support.

3. Anxiety may be caused by a mental condition, a
physical condition, the effects of drugs, or from a
combination of these. http://www.webmd.com
*****Check with your doctor first to discuss what
factors may be contributing to your anxiety.****
This presentation will only be discussing how to
use cognitive methods for controlling anxiety.
With that said, let’s move on to how you can
control that anxiety.

4. We can't solve problems by using the same kind of
thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
William James
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it
so.”
- William Shakespeare
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6. Begin by writing down everything you
can think of that makes you anxious.

7. Notice that what you have
written down is about future
events.
In a word:
FEAR sprocketink.com
Go back to slide 5, notice the words in #3 (Is GOING to happen)

8. Rewrite what you wrote, but change
one thing:
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Think possibilities not problems .

9. Control your Thoughts
http://www.pickthebrain.com
Begin to change the nature of your mind
and notice how much control you can
have over your anxiety.

10. All of the other suggestions are just more ways
to change the thought process
*Relax by closing your eyes taking long deep breaths in through
your nose and out through your mouth. With each breath
think, relax, let go. Practice meditation, not worry (you got
that down!).
*Listen to relaxing music or a visualization, such as: Learn Out
Loud.com Positives: product # PO34197
*Phone a friend, get support from those who care about you.
*Exercise-hard, get the heart pounding. This raises good
chemicals in the brain, get moving, do something.
*Make a plan- write down what you can do to create change, or
accept the situation.
*Now it’s your turn, what can you think of that will help you?

11. “I am an old man and I have known
a great many troubles, but most of
them never happened” - Mark
Twain
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing
it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet
discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie

12. Resources
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dale_carnegie.
html
• http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/stop-worrying/
• http://www.quotegarden.com/worry.html
• http://zenhabits.net/archives/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG3iDoCDLqM
• Slide show by, CassandraGadouas.com