The Power of a Paradox
One more warm day before the temperature plummets twenty degrees tonight! On tap for a cold Saturday in our social anxiety therapy group, is fully understanding and feeling the power of a paradox -- when you first realize that the solutions to your anxiety come from doing the OPPOSITE of what you've been doing all your life. Many people have had major breakthroughs as this knowledge becomes so strong and rational that it is felt throughout your entire body.
Every SOLUTION to an anxiety symptom is a paradox. It always involves doing something differently than we have done in the past. It doesn't make much sense anyway if we just continue to do the same thing every day and keep experiencing anxiety. Why should I be that stupid? It makes sense I need to do something differently -- because I want a different outcome.
