Anxiety, in the way we work with it, is a nervous system that cannot drop out of high alert. The threat passes and the system stays up, because the mechanism that sets its resting speed is holding the wrong number.
Anxiety is generated below the level of the worry, in the systems that decide the body’s resting speed.
Anxiety level control, regulation of the body’s idle speed, and the integration of feeling with movement.
Cognitive flexibility, and the rigid thought loops that keep the alarm running after the reason for it has gone.
The Magnificent 7 is the work of Dr. Lisé DeLong. Copyright © 2013, all rights reserved.
People describe anxiety as a feeling. What we assess is the setting underneath it: how readily the system stands down once nothing is asking it to stay up.
Start with the free anxiety screener. It takes a few minutes and tells you whether the alert is the whole picture. If it is worth going further, the Individualized NeuroDevelopmental Profile reads the basal ganglia alongside the other six systems.
For this presentation that usually means Dynamical Neurofeedback®, regulation work that lets the nervous system self-correct. We do not work on the content of the worry. We work on how quickly the system comes back down, which is a different job and often the one nobody has done.
What people ask before the free screener, including why we work on the setting and leave the worry alone.
Yes. It is one of the short self-assessments on this site, it takes a few minutes, and there is no obligation attached to completing it.
Because the part we work on is not the content of the worry, it is the setting. Dynamical Neurofeedback® shows the nervous system its own activity so it can find its way back down. Many clients keep their therapist and do both.
Yes. The Individualized NeuroDevelopmental Profile reads the basal ganglia alongside the other six systems, so you see whether the alert is the whole story or one part of a wider picture.
Between sessions is where most of the work happens. These are the downloads and the journal we hand to clients, sold through our storefront.
Twelve minutes of autogenics to run before a 33 minute session, which rounds the whole thing out to 45.
$9.95 USD
Ambient soundscapes recorded with violinist Cathy Morris, for quieting a busy mind into a calm focus.
$19.95 USD
Forest, ocean and sky, all three at session length, bought together.
$49.95 USD
Prices in USD, as published in the storefront. Checkout, delivery and support for anything on this shelf run through store.cognitive-connections.com.
A few minutes, no obligation, and it tells us whether the alert threshold is the thing to work on.