wikkidpissah said:
For all panic/anxiety tics, the simplest antidote is to repeat "lost food" like a mantra. All anxiety is a human abstraction of lost-food frustration & panic in our animal processes.
Can you expound on "lost food" a bit Wikkid?
k -
The first job of every organism, from the simplest cell to the most complex system, is survival.
Such is the case with the human brain. Though the cerebral cortex is possible of more combinations than there are atoms on this planet, it is primary function is to help its host stay alive and thrive.
The top two jobs of survival are to eat and to keep from being eaten. Therefore, the higher functions of the 'upper' brain are always and still overriden by an alarm system in the 'lower' brain. To simplify - of every bit of sensory impluse a human takes in, the brain asks two questions, "Does it get me food?" and "Does it make me food?".
Of course, for anyone likely to read this post, food is no longer a primal matter. Still, our system requires us to put the feed-or-fear test to everything.
Since one could say that, in modern society, emotions are the soup-of-the-day, it is logical to assume that the same questions are asked of every one taken in. One could argue, then, that triumph, shame, confidence, guilt, whatever, are abstractions of our survival mechanisms. Therefore, when you flush with embarrassment or panic, remind yourself that its the remnant of the animal inside you, fearful of losing food or opening itself to harm, that is causing it.
Lost food.
