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In this video, we explore the life and work of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. In particular, we focus in on his contemplations and revolutionary understanding of angst, or anxiety, looking into questions like: what is anxiety, where does it come from, and how can we use it to become who we really are?
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The way you've explained anxiety as driving in fog without a map or a break pedal... That's gold.
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"Circumstances do not make the man. They reveal him to himself."
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I just concluded a few months ago that my anxiety is my highest self urging me to tend to what needs to get done. I manage that anxiety by not procrastinating or getting paralyzed, but by creating systems to complete those tasks as healthily and effectively as possible.
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The problem with this existential viewpoint, which essentially boils down to “suck it up, life will never be perfect so just go conquer your fears” is that it’s setting up many people for failure if they can’t defeat their own anxiety. The failure is too easily interpreted as a character flaw, lack of willpower etc which then cycles back through the existing negative feedback loop of that person’s distorted inner world, creating more anxiety. End result is usually the person feels crappy and ashamed for not being able to “figure themselves out”. If someone is suffering from debilitating anxiety or depression they can’t defeat it themselves! It is virtually impossible to dig yourself out of your own hole, the thing you are trying to defeat impacts the brains ability to solve its own problem!
The underlying issue is that Kierkegaard did his thing long before the advent of modern psychological techniques and neuroscience/ cognitive science. His insights were brilliant but now we know a lot more about how this shit works. What we know now is that you are missing the role of the repressed unconscious, and most importantly how unresolved childhood fears can manifest as anxiety in adults.
You can’t “conquer your fear” if your fear is unconscious (hiding in the “shadow” in Jung speak)! If you’ve resolved any remnant childhood issues and are a “fully realized” adult, then yeah sure normal life involves a degree of healthy anxiety. But if you aren’t even consciously aware of the root source of the anxiety because your own brain is hiding it from you, then at best the Kierkegaard inspired approach will allow to mitigate the symptoms to be a “functioning” adult. Until you lower the ego, address the unconscious “inner demons” and create more balance in the psyche, you will never be able to tell the difference between “healthy anxiety” and unhealthy self defeating BS your unconscious is inventing.
Please anyone out there who watches this and thinks they are a failure because they can’t follow this path — it’s not your fault! Seek out therapy if you can’t get yourself unstuck!
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Becoming comfortable in being uncomfortable is essential
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Anxiety is just your mind reminding you about something important. It might not really be important but it’s important to you. Take that panicked energy and focus it on solving the problem. It’s the whole reason it exists, to either fight, flight or freeze when in danger. Not always even serious danger. Hunger will make you anxious and keep you awake until you eat. It will make you be extra careful in certain situations. It will tell you when you gotta get outta there. And it will tell you when you freeze and think before you act. I have bipolar 2 and the anxiety can be crippling if you don’t channel the energy. I’d rather be depressed than anxious any day. I’m not saying it’s easy to channel the energy at all.
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Damn dude that was impressive and very thorough. I haven’t read his book but I’m 40 and dealt with anxiety up until about 3-4 years ago. I found the key is to be completely honest with ourself and try to understand our motives, reactions and ideas of happiness and fulfillment.
This guy clearly had a gift for distilling years of inner development down into eloquent and digestible truths.
Thanks for making this. I really appreciate it.
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As we all know, anxiety is very powerful and thus can be a beneficial source of energy, when transformed towards positive endeavors... Great video!
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The pain of anxiety is that it's often coupled with something else. It wasn't until I found myself deep in depression that anxiety began to be a paralyzing condition versus a conductor of change. Ugh.
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I was a nervous wreck, I remember when my father told me, “Your mind is running? Then go about your day, but, instead, occupy that end of your mind by focusing on your breath.” I was able to complete tasks while focusing on my breathing patterns and breathing deeply. I then realized that, this anxiety provided me with the ability to focus on two tasks at once, it’s actually boosting my brain-power. I had this ‘energy’ that I wasn’t using, constantly (GAD). It was just misguided. My life has never been the same, I trained my mind this way - perceiving the anxiety rather as a form of energy that I could pull from. It all sounds rather outlandish, but it definitely helped me in overcoming my anxiety and the frazzled state that it left my mind in. I was able to see clearly once again. Also, reframing. Don’t be afraid of anxiety, view it from the third person and ask why you’re really anxious. Be honest with yourself.
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I have read no philosphy in my life. But when I was crippled by depression and forced to experience an endless cycle of torture inside my head, this is the exact thought that came into my head during one of those thought explosions that happens. I didn’t take any meds, I sat and endured and kept reminding myself this ought to be some sorta gift for people who are creatively inclined. I started using those endless thought bombardment in my writings. It gave me a new lease of life, I started feeling better while creating strange new worlds just for my amusement. I’m not a successful writer or anything. But the decision to use those crippling fear and anxiety and casting them on my characters have helped me in creating people that almost as real as the people I know. While I write their way to redemption, I somehow gets redeemed in the process too.
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Without dis-ease there is no motivation to grow and change and develop one’s potential - anxiety is the tragic gift of development.
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I wish I knew all this when I was younger, at the age of 19 I was having terrible anxiety leading to panic attacks at not being able to have a normal life... I went to see a doctor and the first thing he did was prescribing me with Benzodiazepines... that was my gateway drug to tabaco, alcohol and many more.. In the end I overcomed anxiety by doing what gave me the most anxiety, only by facing my monsters I was able to overcome my fears
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I started taking anxiety as a challenge. I'm stubborn as hell when it comes to this cuz I hate to feel scared/anxious. I try to expose myself to things that induce it until the thing no longer causes discomfort. Then it's on to the next thing
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I often find that life balances itself out. Either you live with anxiety or run from it. Either way, you’ll regret it. You can either do your best(and face hardship) or give up(and end up sad and unaccomplished). Either way you’ll regret it. No matter how you live you’ll regret some aspect of it, and you’ll love some aspect of it. There are states ofc that are simply worse then others, like a life of constant torture for example, but choose pretty much any philosophy and you’ll end up happy in some ways, and unhappy in other ways. Maybe the best thing to know is just that we will never fully be satisfied, and we’ll never attain a state of consistent happiness. So just live, however you can
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I clicked faster than i could read the title of the video.
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To the incredible person seeing this, I wish you all the best in life❤ don't over blame yourself, accept things and go forward. Don't let others define what “success” is for you. Get up, learn the skills needed and get after it, all the keys to a happy life is in your hands. Keep pushing.
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Fear (Anxiety) a feeling I've run from for most of my life; a feeling that has so marginalized and limited my life, choked my creativity and self-expression. I have realized later in life that fear, my near-constant companion, has also been my greatest teacher. I've had important lessons to learn in this life that only fear could teach me. As a dear saying goes, 'what's bitter at the start is sweeter in the end' - this has become a reality for me. Today, I understand that the only way to resolve fear is to walk directly into it. After running from fear all my life, this idea was radical and stunning. I started mindfully walking toward that which frightened and terrified me, and my life has changed dramatically. It took time, and diligent practice, but anything of value in life is worth effort and sacrifice. My daily sacrifice is letting go of control. Of course, I don't do it perfectly, or even consistently, but I do it enough to make an ongoing difference in the quality of my life. Just recently, I went skydiving. I literally jumped out of a plane at 13,000 feet. It was terrifying, extraordinary and brilliant. People said I was crazy. I didn't care. I wanted to jump into fear and give it two middle fingers up, and I screamed my lungs off in the fall, but what a fall it was - the view was breathtakingly gorgeous. I then retreated to the Peruvian Amazon to a Temple, to avail myself of plant medicine to heal my heart and my soul. Again, some people thought I was crazy. The trip was absolutely challenging and sacred. I opened my heart to the unknown and came out the other side with an enormous sense of really living and experiencing the profundity of life, and of my being. I'm not the same person I was in my early life; I could never be. I have and am becoming who, I imagine, I was always destined to be.
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Anxiety is like an untidy room. A little stands out and draws your attention to clearing it. With a lot you do not know where to begin and are easily reminded of it.
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@ellamay5488
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To become comfortable with the idea of there being no smooth path through life is to, in my eyes, overcome the anxiety of everyday. Being able to not think of the past nor the future, to just be comfortable in the present with no worries, would be such a wonderful point to reach in life.
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