If you are looking for an anxiety cure to help you overcome panic attacks and returning to normal everyday living, you need to start with a crash course in behavioral change.
We can call this class, Behavior Change 101.
In this and in coming posts I’m going to review of some of the key concepts in the amazing book “Change or Die” (2008) by Alan Deutschman. I will review the 3 keys to change, that are covered in the book, and specifically, how they relate to people suffering from panic attacks and anxiety disorders. They are in their own way a form of anxiety cure. And also look at why the common approach of trying to use Facts, Fear or Force (the three F’s) to motivate people to change doesn’t work!
I think you will find all of this VERY interesting…
Today, let’s start with a simple question: Why should you care about any of this? And why was the book Change or Die written?
Well, the book takes it’s start at a private conference at Rockefeller University, in Novemeber 2004, an elite medical research center in New York City.
The first topic they bring up for discussion at this conference is what to do about the growing crisis in health care (an industry that in the US alone consumes more than $2.1 trillion a year – that’s more than a sventh of the entire economy). Despite all of the spending in this area we are still not feeling any healthier. And we’re not making enough progress toward preventing the illnesses that kill us, such as heart disease, stroke and cancer. (For people suffering from panic attacks, the search for an anxiety cure often turns to the internet).
The dream team of experts that took the stage at Rockefeller University didn’t hold any long-awaited answers for how to solve this problem. As they spoke to this small group of insiders they were surpringly candid. They said the crisis in health care had not changed for decades. And no one in the medical establishment could figure out what to do about it.
Dr. Raphael “Ray” Levey, the man who founded the Global Medical Forum, told the audience:
“A relatively small precentage of the population consumes the vast majority of the health care budget for diseases that are very well known and by and large behavioral.” Which means, people are sick becuase of how they choose to live their lives, not because of factors that are beyond their control, such as the genes they were born with.
Levey continued by saying that: “Even as far back as when I was in medical school [back in 1955] many articles demonstrated that 80% of the health care budget was consumed by five behavioral issues“:
1. Too much smoking
2. Too much drinking.
3. Too much eating.
4. Too much stress, and
5. Not enough exercise.
And this is a major reason why learning how behavior change works is so important to your physcial, mental and emotional health and well being. And how it can help you if your looking to find an anxiety cure, start first by looking at your patterns of thought, feeling and behavior. And how these create virtually every thing in your life.
What provoked Alan Deutschman to write the book “Change or Die”?
Well, before I tell you. Ask yourself this question: What if you were given the choice to change or die? For real. We are talking actual life and death here. What if a well educated and informed authority, such as a doctor told you that you had to make enduring change in the way you think, feel and act – could you do it? And that if you didn’t your time on this earth would soon end, a lot sooner than it otherwise had to. Could you really change then, when change mattered most?
Yes, you say? Try again. Yes? Don’t bet on it.
That’s what the experts say. The expert say that you wouldn’t. You don’t believe me, you want odds? The odds that experts are laying down – the scientifically studided odds – are: Nine to one. That’s nine to one against you, not for you. The experts say 90% of people don’t change.
How do you like them odds?
In the next couple of posts, we’ll look at how you can turn all this around by learning what actually works when it comes to creating postive lasting change in your life.
No matter what challenges you are facing, be it anxiety, panic attacks or anything else. The 3 keys to change will apply, as you will learn more about shortly…
Talk soon,
David Jackson
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