Why go to the trouble to Shut Down Anxiety? Answer: When you do, symptoms improve significantly. The connection between anxiety and symptoms is profound. When anxious, symptoms always flare up. Anxiety for many with Parkinsons symptoms is forever present with no relief in sight. This is why symptoms persist.

Unpleasant feelings are the fuel that triggers and sustains anxiety. The harsh reality is that we are not in control of our feelings. They give us no warning. They pop out of what seems like nowhere and for no reason.
We have all learned techniques to bury unpleasant feelings by using our mind and our thoughts to construct an energetic concrete wall. This wall protects us from acknowledging any and all unpleasant feelings. After all, who wants to feel bad all the time?

There is a formidable problem with burying feelings deep inside that are unpleasant. It takes enormous energy to block them out.
When we do get in touch unpleasant feelings that are buried deep inside they do release and dissolve forevermore. When we tolerate whatever unpleasant feelings are in our face in the moment – whether they be sadness, shame, helplessness, hopelessness, anger, vulnerability, embarrassment, disappointment, frustration – we no longer expend energy to deny their existence.
One of the challenges with being open to experience feelings – especially men – is that we often do not even have a name for them. We know what anger feels like. Many other unpleasant feelings have no name. They are just horrible to experience. This is one of the reasons we expend enormous energy to deny their existence.
Some people will experience a feeling and know instantly it is sadness. Others will experience the same feeling in their body but will have no clue as to what exactly is experienced.


Is it shame?
Is it frustration?
Is it helplessness
Is it hopelessness?
Is it something else?
Maybe the feeling has no name. It is just unpleasant which is why we want to bury it.
All feelings are experienced physically in the body. Perhaps for some people, shame is experienced as a heaviness in the heart. Perhaps disappointment is experienced as a heaviness in the chest. We know the feeling (though we may have no label for it) is unpleasant because the physical manifestation of it is so familiar.
Feelings flood our body with chemicals that rush through our neural pathways as they activate unpleasant physical sensations.
Ride the Wave of Unpleasant Feelings to Shut Down Anxiety
Here is the good news. If we choose to dismantle the energetic wall that protects us from unpleasant feelings and elect instead to tolerate them, two benefits surface.
- After expending enormous effort and energy over the years to deny unpleasant feelings, it turns out they are not as horrible as we had anticipated. We discover to our surprise that unpleasant feelings really are not that unpleasant after all.

2. Better yet, we only need to tear down the wall to tolerate an unpleasant feeling for a minute or two. The result? It is released so that it no longer haunts us. Sometimes only 30 seconds is need. If you simply sink down and feel – whatever word might describe the feeling – it lifts and dissolves. No further need to wall ourselves off from unpleasant feelings.
The end result: We no longer expend energy to deny unpleasant feelings so anxiety is shut down. What is the palatable benefit? Symptoms become far less problematic.
In summary, allow yourself to sink down and acknowledge difficult feelings. Why bother? They are inexorably linked to physical symptoms despite the fact we have spend so much energy denying their existence.
The feeling and the symptoms will both become history in a surprisingly short time. Ride the wave of unpleasant feelings and anxiety will be shut down.
Resolution to Clear Unpleasant Feelings
I agree on this day and time to …
- Know
- Experience
- Feel
- Go Through
Feelings however unpleasant or painful. It will be for my deepest healing and greater good.
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Robert Rodgers PhD
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