How to find the hidden fearful thoughts

What are you REALLY afraid of?..
How to find the hidden fearful thoughts

The ‘downward arrow technique’

Many of our anxious thoughts are ‘surface level’ thoughts – thoughts that arise as a RESULT of our underlying fear which we may not even be consciously aware of.

For instance, if you panic in a shop you may think “I need to get out of here” – that thought is NOT the ‘fear’ thought – it is the ‘escape’ thought.

The fear thought would be the deeper thought that is CAUSING you to feel a need to escape..

Downward Arrow Technique

SURFACE THOUGHT
‘I need to get out of here’

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