Physiologically, I think anxiety and fear are the same. But we think of fear as directly relayed to a single particular threat to us that will trigger our instinctive fight/fllight response. Anxiety happens when we cannot let go of a fright we once had. When we cannot release fear associated with a threat, it becomes anxiety, popping up at times when we do not really need the flight/fight response. Anxiety is associated with trauma.
Anxiety and fear are not the same - even physiologically. I believe Brother Steindl-Rast is correct. The difference goes beyond the flight/response of the HPA axis. Anxiety is anticipation, whereas fear is avoidance. Immunologically, fear suppresses and diminishes defense responses (e.g. reduced NK cells). Thus, anxiety allows the option to trust that Steindl-Rast suggests, but fear is a freezing avoidance that creates reruns. The moment we move from anxiety to trust, we trigger a mindbody empowering response that reactivates psychoneuroimmunological enhancement. Remember, the speaker is now 95 years old, so he's doing something that works!
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I have found his book “The Music of Silence” to be absolutely wonderful as a way of structuring my life through the seasons of the day.
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Physiologically, I think anxiety and fear are the same. But we think of fear as directly relayed to a single particular threat to us that will trigger our instinctive fight/fllight response.
Anxiety happens when we cannot let go of a fright we once had. When we cannot release fear associated with a threat, it becomes anxiety, popping up at times when we do not really need the flight/fight response. Anxiety is associated with trauma.
Anxiety and fear are not the same - even physiologically. I believe Brother Steindl-Rast is correct. The difference goes beyond the flight/response of the HPA axis. Anxiety is anticipation, whereas fear is avoidance. Immunologically, fear suppresses and diminishes defense responses (e.g. reduced NK cells). Thus, anxiety allows the option to trust that Steindl-Rast suggests, but fear is a freezing avoidance that creates reruns. The moment we move from anxiety to trust, we trigger a mindbody empowering response that reactivates psychoneuroimmunological enhancement. Remember, the speaker is now 95 years old, so he's doing something that works!