Go back and read again, as the author suggests. Face your anxiety, look at it, get to know it. Allow your anxiety to be there, don’t fight to make it go away. Accept it, let it happen, don’t judge yourself for it and don’t judge your thoughts, feelings, or emotions they are just thoughts emotions and feelings, don’t label them as being good, bad, etc, simply accept them as being there, don’t react to them, don’t label them. Think of them as being harmless or benign. Surrender to them let these feelings wash over you in full, feeling them in full without reacting, trying to make them go away. Your inaction to these thoughts, feelings and emotions is the key to stopping their power over you. By not reacting to them, they lose power to affect you. It takes a lot of practice and time. Once you get into a regular routine of practice, it becomes easier to do.

Thanks, mtd. I have had several good days lately as I am beginning to just go about my life regardless of how I feel. On Friday in particular I felt back to normal with no anxiety symptoms whatsoever. It was WONDERFUL! In the evening I didn't want to go to bed for fear of what might happen on Saturday. I tried not to dwell on it. Saturday I did have symptoms but still was more active than I have been. I will go back and read again. How long have you been using this method?

One of the best gifts we give ourselves is being able to let anxiety help us naturally.

Here's to your success in getting it back to where it works for you!

I haven't read The Book, but acceptance as I learned it begins with letting everything you wrote here be okay and working with it as it comes while allowing it to change as it will throughout the healing process.

Hope healing happens here.

For what it's worth
Anxiety gives me hot flashes and cold sweats, all by its lonesome.

What is "the book"?

Without having any idea what it is, I can say that I, too, have come round over the past year or so to the idea that acceptance is the only way through. I've come across a handful of techniques and adopted a few to help with that.

The book is one the Mid recommended. It is called “It’s Only Anxiety” by Carl James. I am trying to figure out how to just accept that anxiety is around and giving me physical symptoms that I do not like. I am having a difficult time with this concept after being pretty anxiety free for 6 years. My analytical mind wants answers and I know that is just perpetuating the anxiety.

I’ve been using the method for two months now. I have been able to think better, my mental perception is better. My anxiety is somewhat heightened again, and I already know why. I am a runner. I run away from perceived threats in my mind by depersonalizing unconsciously. Now that I am aware of this, I have used the method to help me stop running and face my fears. So I am experiencing what I was running from, by allowing it to manifest instead of running away by use of depersonalization. I am also learning how to be unafraid of all of it. The more I practice, the easier it is to practice. I’ve went over and over in my mind the technique steps till I’ve gotten them working almost on their own. The symptoms are difficult to accept, the feelings, emotions, etc. But that is all they are, they aren’t going to kill me or cause me harm. So I now look at them with that perspective, just as the author suggests. I recognize them as the voice of fear and I counter with the voice of truth, they are just thoughts, feelings and emotions, nothing more . From this perspective it has gotten easier to detach myself from them emotionally, and I don’t feel the need to fight them or “figure them out.” It’s sort of like the old saying about “ in one ear and out the other.” I let them flow thru the best I can without engaging. I don’t react,, or I use the voice of truth to say to myself “ it’s only anxiety causing this feeling or thought, I’m ok.”

Thanks for naming the book. It all sounds like the same perspective and techniques I've been working with in meditation. To be the watcher and observe thoughts and feelings with curiosity rather than judgement. I agree, it's not always fun. I don't like negative feelings and I'd rather not experience them. But, since I don't really have much of a choice in the matter, better to experience them as they are instead of feeding into them with thinking and trying to resist and push them away and, conversely, end up holding them tighter and experience greater suffering.