What Kind of Thoughts Trigger Anxiety?

When I experience an emotion that equates to suffering and I know what suffering is, then I would say I would like to diminish or get rid of this emotion. But when it's not suffering, then I don't need to. That's a Buddhist idea. For me, it puts kind of like a value judgment on the emotions where I see that emotions are just what they are. And either we make the choice to change them or not. Right. Exactly. Well, the other thing I was going to drive at isn't as deep as that but that back. At the beginning of cognitive therapy with one of his many contributions - he called this the idea of cognitive specificity. In other