[Stage Fright] Trauma Treatment ~Top-Down Approach Part 2~

I am Ronge,
organizer of the "It's Okay to Be Nervous! Speaking Practice Group"
in Osaka.


Following my previous post, I will introduce a


top-down approach that I have incorporated as part of my trauma treatment.

How to Face Anxiety

Traumatic experiences
completely change how a person views things.



Even a single experience

"The world is dangerous"
"Others are dangerous"

has the destructive power to make you strongly believe these things.



To correct this "unrealistic cognition,"

I incorporated "journaling,"
which I introduced the other day.


I highly recommend this.

(Although it takes the effort of "writing in a notebook,"
the return far outweighs that.)



And what I am introducing this time

is the concept of
"Morita Therapy" that I incorporated along with it.

Anxiety and fear "cannot be eliminated"; trying to eliminate them only makes you more anxious

Up until now,
I have read quite a number of psychology books,

but none of them contained a method to "eliminate" feelings of anxiety or fear.
(There are ways to deal with anxiety and fear, but

you cannot eliminate "the thing itself.")




"Feelings of anxiety and fear cannot be eliminated" This is, at the moment,


what I consider to be the final answer.
However,



even I, knowing this,


lost my peace of mind due to trauma, and ended up in a state of mind where I couldn't think that way.

As a result, regarding anxiety and fear,




"I want to eliminate them" or "I don't want to feel them"
is how I started thinking... But this was not good.



Because, as mentioned above, anxiety and fear



cannot be eliminated. When you try to eliminate them,


the following "vicious cycle" begins.


・I become anxious about the fact that I am feeling anxious. ・I become fearful about the fact that I am feeling fear.
In other words,


I end up in a state of being
"trapped" by anxiety and fear.

The Morita Therapy concept of "Anxiety Always Exists"

So, I tried incorporating the concept of "Morita Therapy."


Among them, the concept of "Anxiety Always Exists" was helpful.


By the way, "Anxiety Always Exists"
refers to this kind of "way of being."

"Accepting anxiety and fear as 'natural' things"


It is that kind of "way of being."



This way of being

is helping me overcome
the anxiety and fear that can be called the remnants of trauma.


"It's okay to be anxious"
"It's okay to be afraid"


By giving anxiety and fear a place to exist in this way,
conversely, anxiety and fear diminish their presence.

(You can also break the vicious cycle of anxiety and fear)

By the way, if I were to use a "Zen term,"




"Giving existence" would that be it? If you acknowledge that it exists,


it becomes
the same as not existing.

The experience of facing stage fright has been useful!

Many years ago,
I learned about "Morita Therapy" while facing my stage fright.

This experience
is also being utilized in this trauma treatment.



From here on, it will be a bit of a digression.


From last year to this year, I have

・EMDR
・Bilateral Tapping
・TS Protocol
・IFS
・Inner Child Work

I have been performing trauma care using methods such as these.


In a sense, these are
"modern" trauma care methods, I think.



In the midst of that, what has been useful here is

the surprising fact that it was created over 100 years ago (Taisho era)...
"Morita Therapy"...



In my opinion,
the concept of this "Morita Therapy" is essential through and through.


No matter how many hundreds or thousands of years pass in the future,
I believe it will continue to save people suffering from anxiety and fear.

Announcement

Here is the event information for the April
"It's Okay to Be Nervous! Speaking Practice Group."


◆Date and Time: 4/12 (Sat) 14:00-16:30
　　　　　　4/26 (Sat) 14:00-16:30
◆Location: Osaka Umeda


If you would like to participate,
please apply from the site below!


★4/12 (Sat) session↓↓↓

★4/26 (Sat) session↓↓