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acceptance can be the hardest thing in the world. Part of it can be in figuring out what acceptance requires - and in figuring out what one gets out of it.

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Hallelujah!

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So say you feel anxious... Then feel really very anxious in response to thinking of that primary anxiety as 'terrible' or 'terrifying' or 'something that I shouldn't be feeling'. The notion is that those thoughts are what serves to keep the anxiety really very intense and refiring over and over and over.

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So true, Alex. I have to work so hard because I have OCD - the type in which you think thoughts over and over. My T told me that I probably am having a really difficult time getting over my emotions because of my OCD. Ugh!

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If you fight it you get into a tug of war with your body.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> Hmmmmm. This is why my back was killing me, my shoulders were extremely tight, and why I couldn't sleep.

I always tell T that he can always help me by giving me information/the theory, etc. as to what is going on with me at the time. Your explanation really helped me understand it better - I had never read anything about primary/secondary emotions and found it very interesting. Thank you so much!