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- Flooding therapy works by reconditioning the fear and stress response in the brain, body, and nervous system to become less sensitive to certain feared objects or situations. All exposure techniques (including flooding) also help reduce avoidance coping, which is often a big part of what makes these disorders so debilitating.
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- Observe. So you can start by asking yourself, “What am I feeling right now? What are my thoughts saying right now? What sensations am I feeling in my body?”
- Willingness. The second step in processing emotions like anxiety is willingness. Willingness is the secret ingredient in emotion processing. If you want to work through emotions you need to choose to be willing to feel them, and this is a skill that you can develop.
- Explore. That takes us to our next step, which is number three: explore. Exploring your anxiety is all about making it clear and concrete. So anxiety is like a smoke alarm.
- Clarify and Choose. Now that we have observed our emotions, we’ve felt them, we’ve explored them and what’s behind them, now we’re ready to clarify and choose what we’re going to do about them.
Flooding therapy is an intensive type of exposure therapy in which you must face your fear at a maximum level of intensity for an extended amount of time. There’s no avoiding the situation...
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