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@Designing_Mind this email hit home... In short, avoiding what makes you anxious leads you to restrict your activities, which makes your anxiety generalize, which then prompts more avoidance, which in turn promotes more generalized anxiety, which stirs up even more avoidance. As you can see, it becomes a vicious cycle. The key to taming your amygdala is to break this vicious cycle. You must make sure that you expose yourself to what you were fearful of in the past. By keeping your behavioral options open to anxiety-provoking experiences, you allow yourself to be flexible and resilient in changing situations. By exposing yourself to what made you anxious in the past, you can learn to recondition yourself and habituate to the situation. ​ // John B. Arden, Rewire Your Brain