The "easiest" way to change

Category: Introductory

Anxiety is not learned, I’m born with it.

Last checked for editing: January 22/2025. None needed. It’s timeless.

I’m always hearing I have to learn to be less anxious. But it’s all wrong. I was born this way. And I can’t unlearn it.  So I don’t need to tell myself not to be afraid. That just makes it worse and adds guilt that I failed to stop the fear. Now I’m afraid of being afraid.

And there’s more.

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The Seeing Sequence, what it is and isn’t

Is:

  • Is a sequence of statements I learn and repeat to myself whenever I’m anxious (anxiety is: more fear than I should feel for this situation, or fear that continues when the event that triggered the fear has passed).
  • Is a way to turn my anxiety off in any moment, so I can be my true self in that moment.
  • Is a way to change. If I do it a lot, I will stop doing a lot of the stuff I want to stop, and discover new stuff I should stop.

Isn’t:

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Why the Seeing Sequence works

Why the Seeing Sequence works to turn off anxiety.

Updated May 9/2024, March 6/2025, May 9/2025

I don’t need to know why the Seeing Sequence works in order to do it. While I want to know why, understanding will not, at all, help me change, or make me work at change.

See Summary below for the short version.

The main “why” thing to know is this: Ignoring is the pivotal event in my life.

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