From Anxiety To Motivation
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By letting anxiety to take charge over our lives, to engulf and overwhelm we let go our a choice of experiencing the joy and freedom we have at hand. Negativity affects us emotionally and impacts everyone around us.
Anxiety is directly related to our levels of expectation which quite often translates into a fear of the future? Without experiences that evoke failure, struggle, and shocks to our system, we cannot engage with the inner development of our strength and resilience. In the first stages of life our early negative experiences have an impact which feels like an annihilation. We quite often do not believe that we can survive such trauma.
The next stage of our development is to look outside ourselves to shift the responsibility for our failure, our experience to another person or somewhere else. Only to realize we have given our power away, we have made ourselves powerless. In this state it can heighten our fear, create anger and mayhem.
So how can we get to kernel of this and find ways to grow from our experience:
* Responsibility - the moment we accept that somehow we have a part to play in the experience that evokes the anxiety, we begin the healing journey away from suffering towards empowerment. Anxiety often sits on the continuum between fear and excitement. The excitement of anticipating an event can be accompanied with a sense of fear. Giving a speech is usually one of those moments. The excitement of speaking to a large group of people and be very visible and the fear of making a fool of ourselves, translates into a state of anxiety. This tension might easily dissolve once the event has begun.
* Acceptance - the tension between fear and excitement can be a motivating experience. To stay in that anxious mode too long might be debilitating, whereas accepting the moment and that it is okay to make mistakes, catapults us towards the activity and the event. As we face that "thing" that evoked the anxiety, we are in a position of accomplishment and "success". This in turn reinforces feeling of well being and hence the diminishing of anxiety.
* Worrying is the first feeling we notice and is a precedent to anxiety. Worry is the springboard into the intense and painful symptoms of anxiety. Our family of origin (parents, brothers, extended family members) are usually the source of acquiring this learned condition. Unconsciously we reinforce these patterns in our minds and pass them onto our children. Once we become aware of what is happening we then have choice as how to proceed. This gives us an opportunity to consciously change or at least manage these patterns.
* Noticing each and every time we have a negative feeling allows us to learn how our personal inner system is working. The more we notice, the more we learn and understand. The more we understand the more we are able to transform our anxiety into motivation. Being motivated leads to feelings of inspiration and greater productivity.
There is a program available online or in physical format called The Linden Method which gives you the tools and systematic approach to reclaiming you. "Be who you want to be" and take charge of your life again. Learn how to deal with anxiety and put it where it belongs. In the past.
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