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Hijack Your Anxiety
I’ve suffered all the diseases, all the accidents, all the bad things.
Maybe you have as well? You know what I mean… you ate beets yesterday and this morning you went to the bathroom only to find out that you now have cancer.
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
— Seneca
Our brains are extrapolation machines and mine is a very committed futurist, finding the things that could go wrong and showing me how they will go wrong.
Anxiety is an infirmity that infects the good times of our life with the assumptive certainty that all is not well.
Now, like everything human, anxiety exists on a spectrum. No one is immune and some need more help than others.
But we can all do at least one thing when anxiety hits: hijack it!
Hijack your anxiety by using it to learn what’s really going on in your heart.
As I wrote on Sunday, observing your thoughts can lead you to that which is really going on in your heart. If you can muster the courage to follow them, your anxious thoughts will lead you to the true identity of your fear. That won’t necessarily make your anxiety go away, but, in the future, that intel might be what ends…
