Transforming the Trigger Thought
This is the second of Alistair's online anxiety courses. You will learn how to undo the mechanisms that generate anxiety in the first place and learn lasting ways to change your mind for good.
This is part two of Mindsprings anxiety course that I've been teaching since 2013. It builds on Part One, Mastering the Monsters of Anxiety.
Transforming the Trigger Thought goes deep into the mechanisms that generate our anxiety and teaches you to uproot them. In this online course I teach you to avoid habits that make anxiety worse and concentrate on seeing the core thoughts that trigger you.
It's full of material that I can't squeeze into my weekend groups: slideshow presentations, video demonstrations of the material, quizzes, workbooks. As well as contact with me and a community forum for the students to share their experience.
Please check out the course material below and join thousands of other people who have benefited if it feels like a good fit for you.
What's going on in this welcome unit?
Navigating the Course Screen
Alistair in the garden... Some thoughts about self-care.
FREE PREVIEWThe Check In
Medical Disclaimer
Please download and read through the TTT workbook!
What you will achieve in this first session
Introduction to Transforming Trigger Thoughts
The seven quick and two slow practices revisited
New recordings of PVT and Earth Breathing
Rumplestiltskin and your SUDs
FREE PREVIEWTest your learning
What Session 2 has in store for you..
Why do you keep yourself anxious?
The Gizmo explained
Let's meditate - explore your TAD
Did you grasp everything?
FREE PREVIEWWhat's going on in Session 3?
Your defences have been around a long time
Discover your defences
FREE PREVIEWWhat do YOU do to escape intolerable anxiety?
Dirty (dis)comforts explained
Did you get everything?
What's in store in Session 4?
Staying light and flexible - like the zebras...
Alistair demonstrates 'Shaking the Tree'
Who are we when we're no longer anxious?
Check what you've learned
What you'll achieve in Session 5
Exploring the trigger thoughts in your life
Prompts for finding the trigger thoughts
SLIDEDECK: How trigger thoughts unfold over time
Slow down. Relax. Let things settle.
Test your learning
What's this Interlude about?
Widening the self by walking in the world
Video Guide to 'Weaving Walking'
Download the 'portable' guide to Weaving Walking
Taking a 'walking week' to let things settle
Did you get all the fine points?
What will happen in this session?
Tackling the Trigger Thoughts
Defusing from trigger thoughts without EP
Energy psychology and working with reversals
The guide to energy clearing
Alistair demonstrates a session of energy clearing
Pointers about EP
Did you get everything?
Looking ahead into session 7
Clean anxiety and holy terrors
The Holy Terrors
How holy terror lifts us up
Did you get the pith of it?
What's in the final session?
Congratulations!
The sum up
Let's check our SUDs together one more time
The Check Out
Taking a moment to gather things together
Please give me some feedback!
Resources, reading etc.
The end of never-to-be-accomplished tasks
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own. I encourage you to work through it as many times as useful and re-visit it often.
I don't want you to be unhappy at all! The last thing I want is the course to make you anxious. So, if you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and Mindsprings will give you a full refund. But I'm confident that you'll be very happy indeed to have discovered our work.
I'm a accredited psychotherapist regulated by the British UKCP board. And I have more than 7 years experience teaching this course to many hundreds of people. However, I know that anxiety can make us very vulnerable and would never want you feel unsafe. If you have any doubt about the suitability of the course then please contact me with your questions. (The contact button is below!)
Yes, of course, book-learning is great. And I have studied a great deal in the field of pyschotherapy, neuroscience, human physiology and Buddhist psychology. But as we'll explore, anxiety breeds in our thinking mind. And for me, getting some direct coaching on how to stay in the body and find non-thinky ways of dealing with it was a break-through... So let me save you time and dead-ends by sharing my experience direct...
I know that money is an issue (and a source of anxiety!) for many of us. And at Mindsprings our inspiration is to help everyone free themselves from anxiety - whether they're wealthy or not. We think that we have priced the courses fairly and ask those who can afford them to help those who can't by paying the full course-fee. And there's a payment schedule to help spread the load. However, we also have a number of bursaries available to those struggling financially, so please contact us to ask about financial aid. (The contact button is below).
If you're suffering from really severe anxiety and are worried about your safety, then you should see your doctor and ensure that you have medical support. Normally, I teach these courses in person, and as a therapist I can help people if difficult material comes up. But this course is self-led. This means you can pace yourself if it is getting difficult - but it also I'm not there physically to attend to you. It's a non-pharmaceutical, body-based course which has help lots of people in a lasting way. But please use your prioritise your safety when deciding to sign up.
As we explore in the course, anxiety is a natural feature of being a human with a thinking mind. Humans will always trigger their innate fear and panic systems with their thinking. But this course can really diminish the amount of unnecessary anxiety and stress we create and give us a method for metabolising the painful chemistry of fear and panic in our bodies. We CAN live with way less anxiety than we do now and it is possible for you
The simple answer is: the longer you do the practices, the longer the anxiety will stay away. As we know, there's no magic bullet. And these practices change the way our brains are wired and the way our body-chemistry works. That's an organic process and takes time. But when we have the support of the insight and the practice, then the 'penny drops' and we stop doing the things that unconsciously make us more anxious. Over time that makes anxiety an occasional visitor rather than a permanent partner.