Why Humans Are the Only Species Threatened by Their Own Protection System
Anxiety is often misunderstood. Most people think it means something is wrong with them — that they’re broken or too sensitive. But the truth is that anxiety is your mind’s protection system doing its job.
Humans are unique in one very important way:
We are the only species that can feel threatened by the very system designed to keep us safe.
Your Protection System in Action
Imagine a porcupine comes running up to you, panicking and shouting,
“Help! Someone stuck these needles in me!”
You’d reassure the porcupine and say,
“Those needles aren’t hurting you — they’re coming out of you, not going into you. They’re there to protect you.”
This is exactly what’s happening in your mind and body when you experience anxiety.
What Anxiety Really Is
When your mind senses a threat — real or imagined — it prepares you to survive. It makes your heart race, your breathing quicken, your muscles tense.
All of this is your mind saying:
“Get strong. Get ready. Run if you need to.”
This is why anxiety is sometimes called “the fight-or-flight response.” It’s not meant to make you feel weak. It’s meant to supercharge you.
Why It Feels Weak
Here’s the catch:
If you’re not actually running from a predator, all that energy has nowhere to go.
Instead of using it to flee or fight, you sit there feeling it — your heart pounding, your stomach in knots, your chest tight.
Your mind then interprets those sensations as dangerous.
“Why am I feeling like this? Something must be wrong!”
And the loop begins:
Sensations trigger fear.
Fear triggers more sensations.
Anxiety spirals.
Other Animals Don’t Do This
A zebra doesn’t sit in the grass after escaping a lion thinking,
“Why is my heart still racing? What’s wrong with me?”
It just lets the body calm down naturally.
Humans, on the other hand, have the ability to reflect, imagine, and analyse.
This advanced ability is amazing — but it also means we can scare ourselves with our own thoughts and sensations.
How Hypnotherapy Helps
In hypnotherapy and Rapid Resolution Therapy, I guide your mind to understand that:
✨ The sensations it’s creating are coming from you, not at you.
✨ There is no current danger.
✨ All that energy can safely settle because no action is required right now.
Once the primitive mind gets this memo, it stops firing the alarm. Your system returns to calm, and you stop feeling like a threat to yourself.
The Result
Instead of fearing your own body’s signals, you begin to experience them as what they really are — your system getting stronger to protect you.
When your mind stops turning those sensations into a problem, anxiety no longer spirals out of control. You regain clarity, calm, and freedom.
You’re Not Broken
If you’ve been living in fear of your own thoughts and sensations, you’re not broken — you’re human.
Your mind has just been running outdated survival instructions.
✨ Hypnotherapy works like an update for your mind, helping the advanced and primitive systems work together rather than against each other.
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