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THE SELF-MANAGEMENT OF ANXIETY: INTEGRATION OF IMPULSES ARRIVING AT THE BRAIN

29th April 2009

Basic cause of anxiety is the arrival at the brain of more nervous impulses than can be properly sorted out by the brain. In other words, there is incomplete integration of the impulses. A good sleep helps the brain in reaching this integration. We go to bed tense with anxiety, and wake refreshed and with things clearer in our mind after a good night’s rest. Sleep then is a help in the integration of the inflow of nervous impulses. But a regressed state of mind is very much more effective in this respect than is sleep. This is clearly shown by the fact that people with severe chronic anxiety may be given drugs to make them sleep well; but anxiety of any severity is not relieved by this means. However, these people usually lose their anxiety if they can be brought to a regressed state of mind, and if they practise this consistently, the condition is gradually alleviated. In other words, the regressed state of the relaxing exercises aids the integration of the impulses arriving at the brain, and so reduces the general level of anxiety.

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