Understanding Anxiety. . .
Feeling tense, restless, or fearful? Anxiety can make you feel trapped in your own head.
Anxiety can arise for all sorts of reasons. You may feel restless and have a hard time sleeping the night before an important test, an early flight, or a job interview, for example. Or you may feel nauseous when you think about going to a party and interacting with strangers, or physically tense when comparing your bank balance to the bills that keep mounting up.
Sometimes it can seem that you feel nervous, panicky, and on-edge for no reason at all. However, there’s usually a trigger to feelings of anxiety and panic, even if it’s not immediately obvious. Anxiety often starts with uncertainty. When your brain feels like it doesn’t have enough information to make a prediction, it starts making up stories—usually unpleasant ones.
Meditation is one of many relaxation techniques focused on intentional breathing and the mind-body connection. It’s a perfect means to set aside our anxiety and learn to refocus our nervous energy and anxious mind. There’s practically zero risk involved in trying out a meditation session, as long as you’re in a safe environment to close your eyes and zone out.
Anxiety is a normal emotion. The normal anxiety of life is part of our biological make-up. There are several evolutionary reasons why it can be a good thing. Firstly, it can improve our ability to stay sharp and focused in our daily activities. Secondly and even more vitally, anxiety keeps us safe.
The ability to bring ourselves out of ruminations on the past or on possible futures is truly an essential ingredient of a life worth living. It is essential to finding inner peace and understanding our anxiety. Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it— just as we have learned to live with storms.
Peace and Love, Jim
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