How Anxiety Heals Us
Did you hear when I said, “How anxiety heals us”?
That’s because the feelings of anxiety are not there for no reason.
They are there to alert us that we are off track, and that something doesn’t feel right.
I fully believe that anxiety can be felt when our natural lives are not in alignment with our souls.
Perhaps we are living up to expectation, or attempting to anyway. Either way, we are not living the way we know in our hearts to feel satisfying.
Pushing anxiety away as if it doesn’t exist, or take drugs to “get it to stop” may be a temporary fix, but the key word here is “temporary”.
Sure, it may help in the beginning, but in my experience, the longer you push something off, the worse the symptoms are. And they may NOT be in the same way that they originally started.
This escalation of long term symptoms morphing into other parts of the life and body makes people believe they are very unhealthy rather than to go back and address the original problem.
The solution thus gets farther and farther away and more buried. It is important right away to feel that wave’s crest, admit we feel it, and determine that anxiety is a powerful tool that we can use in our favor rather than against us.
Anxiety is not your shadow side, the negative side of you, or your evil twin.
It is a protective ally, determined to keep you safe.
These protective systems are innate and powerful but like all things, work best in your favor if they are in BALANCE.
Using the yin/yang symbol is a good reminder of balance in your life.
You can’t have the “good” without the “bad”, the black without the white, the light without the dark.
Most importantly, not only do these opposites exist, they are ever flowing in, out, and around each other.
Meaning these energies are not stagnant. All that you feel succumbs to the verbiage “this too shall pass”.
When all the pieces of your life are allowed to work in harmony, there is balance.
We have to address the triggers...which ultimately comes down to the fears.
What you BELIEVE is going to happen is usually worse than what IS happening.
Again, look to assess the truth in the fear.
Fears take away your power/control, and ultimately that is what we are anxious about.
Usually anxiety happens because we are trying to control how WE want it, trying to defend against any “bad” thing that can happen.
Learning to let go, and have faith and trust in the situation are useful exercises for those that struggle.
If we’re feeling struggle, often times it’s because the answers aren’t there yet and we need patience for the development.
Much of anxiety comes from what we EXPECTED something to be like and it wasn't.
Even in our regular daily lives, we have expectations of people, and we presume they have expectations of us.
Trying to meet up to these expectations leads to the overwhelm, overburden, and Not-enough-ness we feel.
This is all about doing what you can IN YOUR POWER to do to change how you feel so you can enjoy your life more.
When you enjoy your life more, you live more in the present rather than the trauma of the past of the worry of the future. Enjoying your PRESENT you begin to believe you have a Rare Outrageous Rockin' Awesome life.