Welcome to the Book Study of Beyond Anxiety written by Martha Beck. Beck posits that anxiety may be symptom of a culture that doesn’t honor the individual creative. This book study is intended for you to question the way our culture operates and to decide if you want to play within the confines of expectation or outside of them.
Whether you choose to live as a Creative or to utilize her tools to shift anxious states, this book is full of exercises and practices to live a life more aligned with your True Self.
Sessions
Enjoy watching yourself question, play, and change as you dive into Beck’s book Beyond Anxiety.
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Session 2: Questioning Your WEIRD Brain While Meeting Your Anxiety Creature
1. We live in a culture that’s heavily biases toward a very specific kind of thinking and behaving – the way preferred by the left hemisphere.
2. The way our culture goes about trying to reduce anxiety also tends to be very left-brain dominated.
3. There’s a better way to deal with anxiety, one that moves us away from our left hemisphere-dominated cultural models and allows our inherent wisdom to guide us into a more brain-balanced way of being.
1. We live in a culture that’s heavily biases toward a very specific kind of thinking and behaving – the way preferred by the left hemisphere.
2. The way our culture goes about trying to reduce anxiety also tends to be very left-brain dominated.
3. There’s a better way to deal with anxiety, one that moves us away from our left hemisphere-dominated cultural models and allows our inherent wisdom to guide us into a more brain-balanced way of being.
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Session 3: Problem-solving and process improvement
“As you become more creative than our society deems prudent, you’ll make the choices that will lead to your own greatest happiness, and your best contribution to the world.” M. Beck
“As you become more creative than our society deems prudent, you’ll make the choices that will lead to your own greatest happiness, and your best contribution to the world.” M. Beck
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Session 4: Making a Sanity Quilt
“It doesn’t seem odd to me that I’m equally passionate about studying Asian philosophy and attaching New Age affirmations to silly animal photos. There is no ranking in my right hemisphere, no judgment based on financial productivity or efficient use of time. There is only curiosity, connection, wonder and delight.” M. Beck
“It doesn’t seem odd to me that I’m equally passionate about studying Asian philosophy and attaching New Age affirmations to silly animal photos. There is no ranking in my right hemisphere, no judgment based on financial productivity or efficient use of time. There is only curiosity, connection, wonder and delight.” M. Beck
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Session 4: Creating and Recreating
“If you calm your anxiety and walk away from the roles you've been given toward the actions that bring you joy, you'll end up in more and more places where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep hunger.” M. Beck
“If you calm your anxiety and walk away from the roles you've been given toward the actions that bring you joy, you'll end up in more and more places where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep hunger.” M. Beck
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