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Act behavioral, when we change how we respond to situations that make us anxious, we can learn new

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behaviors that lessen our fears.

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Let's review some strategies for using our actions to combat our anxiety approach.

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What you fear facing our fears head on is called exposure therapy in CBT and is the antidote to that

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avoidance that maintains and anxiety.

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This assumes, of course, that what we fear is not actually very risky.

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Facing a dog that bites won't fix our phobia of animals.

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For example, exposure to the things that scares us decreases our anxiety by allowing our nervous system

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to learn that the danger is exaggerated, giving us confidence that we can face our fears without being

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overwhelmed, reinforcing our awareness that an anxiety is not dangerous.

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Hundreds of studies have found that exposure is a powerful weapon against overblown, and anxiety will

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go through a step by step plan for implementing exposure.

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Phase your physical manifestations of fear and anxiety about our anxiety can present an additional challenge.

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Panic disorder, in particular, can feature a fear of the panic related physical sensations.

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For example, a person might avoid running because the resulting shortness of breath and bounding heart

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are similar to the feelings during Banach.

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Avoiding physical sensations only strengthens our fear and makes us more sensitive to the sensations.

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Exposure therapy can decrease our fear of physical and anxiety symptoms.

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For example, we can do jumping jacks to cause breathlessness, spin and share to induce dizziness or

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we are warm clothes to make ourselves sweat.

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Doing these kinds of things repeatedly lessens our fear of the physical sensations.