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Those of you who have ever experienced prolonged and unexplained periods of anxiety may have wondered more than once what the cause of it was for you.

When no known cause was apparent and the symptoms became intolerable or made you unable to function you likely may have turned to some form of medication or other modality to lessen its impact on your life.

To make it plain and easy to understand how I conceptualize the root cause of anxiety I will use the analog of a pot of water on a stove top.

Assume here that your awareness is limited strictly to the surface of the water in the pot. In other words you do not know that the pot is on a stove top and that the stove element is turn on to high.

What you see after some time is the turbulence on the surface of the water. Now if you had never experienced this before you might be hard pressed to explain what was going on. Of course you do know however that the water is being heated and that this is responsible for the turbulence.

Now if we go back to the situation with the anxiety. The symptoms of the anxiety which you experience emotionally, mentally and physically represent the turbulence on the surface of the water in the pot as it is being heated.

What does the heat represent in this case?

Well it represents all those uncomfortable feelings, thoughts and memories that you have stored within your mind/body (some call this the unconscious mind) that you are suppressing simply because if you allowed yourself to feel them you might not be able to function.

Unfortunately the “pressure” exerted on your conscious mind by this submerged material is great enough to make you aware of its presence. This is what you experience as the anxiety i.e. the turbulence on the surface of the water.

You have however sufficiently submerged the root causes of the discomfort (i.e. the memories themselves) and therefore cannot make a conscious link between the anxiety and their cause.

This tactic of trying to suppress uncomfortable memories is engaged because many “think” that by doing so they will push the offending material away and therefore feel better.

Well, like it or not, this never works. When this material is pushed away it only gets pushed inside and like a beach ball pushed into the shallow end of a swimming pool it will exert an equal and opposite force upward and outward into your conscious mind. The net result is that by trying to keep it submerged it only depletes your vital life energy.

The only way to effectively deal with the anxiety is to release the memory completely and thereby release the internal pressure. Most psychotherapies fail at this process because in doing so they leave the client vulnerable to re-experiencing the full force of the negative experience in what is termed an abreaction.

When this happens the client often feels re-traumatized and may leave therapy.

With a new modality called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) (MRP) the client gains considerable resilience and emotional strength as they are allowed to become aware of the offending material at their own desired pace. They also are able to completely, permanently and quickly release the offending material thereby reclaiming vast amounts of vital life energy.

This process is done over the telephone and is accessible by visiting the web link below.

Dr. Nick Arrizza is trained in Chemical Engineering, Business Management & Leadership, Medicine and Psychiatry. He is an Energy Psychiatrist, Healer, Key Note Speaker,Editor of a New Ezine Called “Spirituality And Science” (which is requesting high quality article submissions) Author of “Esteem for the Self: A Manual for Personal Transformation” (available in ebook format on his web site), Stress Management Coach, Peak Performance Coach & Energy Medicine Researcher, Specializes in Life and Executive Performance Coaching, is the Developer of a powerful new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) that helps build physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being by helping to permanently release negative beliefs, emotions, perceptions and memories. He holds live workshops, international telephone coaching sessions and international teleconference workshops on Physical. Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Well Being.

Web site: http://www.telecoaching4u.com/IntroConsult.htm

Anybody who has spent a lot of time studying computers knows that computers suffer from memory leaks. Lost information and *breaks* seem to be the norm with today’s technology. Could we be experiencing the same problem? What about our human memories? Could we (regardless of our age) be experiencing the same thing? Should we rely on our memories? Should we view our memories as incorruptible and as the sacred truth?

Within a computer, a “memory leak occurs when the program loses the ability to free the memory” (Wikipedia). Basically, this same phenomenon occurs with people too. For people, the older our memories are, studies have shown that our thoughts and conceptions become more and more distorted with time. Even at that, if several people observe the same situation, and for as many people, there are multiple viewpoints and memories about it.

As part of my formal education, this color theory was taught as part of the curriculum, because artists should not rely on their memories for proportions, colors, textures, and details about the objects, rooms, or scenes they attempt to recreate or design for. Our memories drop off information automatically, and we should never expect to have absolute recall of anything.

For even the simplest forms and shades of colors, our memories do not record absolute information (even moments later). Granted, there are different reasons for this. But short of getting into all the reasons, let’s just explore one scenario. An artist is painting an object set before him or her, and upon removal of the object, the artist no longer is able to accurately depict the exact colors or details about it any longer. This scenario includes only the removal of the object in question.

To test this color theory, purchase two large boxes of color crayons. Cut-out several squares of paper and have someone else color them from the same box of color crayonsyou want to have complete objectivity and eliminate knowing which colors were used. You may have to use a duplicate box of crayons so that you are not eliminating colors by measuring the tips of the used crayons. Then, have someone hold the swatch up for you to see and after the swatch is removed, try to match the shade of the color. It’s a lesson of humility if nothing else. It demonstrates how faulty our memories areeven moments later. (Revised 2/16/2006)

Debbie Jensen, Graphic Designer and Photographer http://www.debjensendesigns.com