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This 10 session seminar (free) further develops the training introduced here to overcome anxiety.
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Journeying with God from worry to peace
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Understanding the reason people worry
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Accepting responsibility for our worries
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Discerning the relation between anxiety and anxious thoughts.
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Realizing that only God can help us when anxious thoughts strike.
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Detecting and destroying the roots of anxiety.
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Foiling temptation's plan
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Discovering and understanding the three levels of anxiety.
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Mastering the three stage process to overcome worries.
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Creating a testimony by overcoming difficult worries.
Overcoming Anxiety: Lesson #5
Possessing God's Precious Peace
Discipleship Level 2: Reaching Beyond Mediocrity
Paul J. Bucknell
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Exercises on overcoming worry and anxiety (#1-4)
Tools to facilitate this process
A person needs to be thorough in his dealings with worry. It is much more difficult to handle worry when one is worried.
There are several ways the evil one is able to keep us from getting at the roots of our anxiety. Remember how one of our objectives is to set you free from anxiety so that you praise God and can share about God's power with others. The better you are able to communicate the changes that took place in you, the better. Here are some trouble points to look out for.
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Worry brings other complicating factors in. We have provided four separate exercises to facilitate the process of understanding, detecting and avoiding worry.
{Please note the exercises are included in the book, Reaching Beyond Mediocrity. Click the picture above for details.}
(1) Observe your anxious responses.
The earlier we discover our worry the better. We should note what happens to us at different stages when being tempted with worry and later giving in to worry.
Once you write down these signs, you can sharpen your skills at detecting worry in yourself and others. List them under different categories: physical, emotional and spiritual.
This is a simple self-evaluation to see if you typically worry.
(2) Trace your anxious thoughts and responses
Take a certain situation where you were recently worried and make observations about what happened. The list of questions will guide you through the process.
Many times we do not understand our own responses to worry. This exercise helps us to see what we actually do do.
(3) Preventing Anxiety
It is important to prevent anxiety from ever happening. It is a bit tricky at first because we are worried before we are aware of it! But it doesn't have to happen this way.
We can help focus on when we become worried by discovering what triggered the worry in the first place. This simple diagram helps you focus on what happened when.
(4) Combating worry
When you succumb to temptation, suggested thoughts from the evil one guide your thoughts and decisions. This chart helps you discover what those thoughts are. These will be the lies that you believe.
One observes them by noticing the thoughts that go over and over in your mind. Once you find one, write them down and think if there are any others. In the right column, write down the opposite thought. This is almost always the truth and what we should believe. After this, write scriptures that support the truth.
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Check out the full ten session seminar on overcoming anxiety and finding God's peace. Each step is carefully presented using many colorful graphics and diagrams.