Fear and Anxiety
Fear can cause anxiety, and anxiety can cause fear.
When you do not live in the moment or presence tense, your bodies experience anxiety. The anxiety of the unknown or the belief that you will experience dome or glom or the unknown. Your mind makes up stories about things that have not happened.
Anxiety attacks happen when you do not stop to deal with a situation, or not wanting to deal with a situation and ignoring what your body is telling you. The emotions surrounding the situation affect your body physically. You may experience symptoms of sweating, racing heart, fast breathing, etc and you might go to the emergency room, believing you are having a heart attack. Anxiety can also cause sleep deprivation. All this leads to emotional and physical stress.
Fear and anxiety also reduce the immune system’s ability to fight off disease. When your immune system is compromised, the body is more susceptible to contracting viruses and disease.
When you live in fear, your body is in fight and flight mode. Your adrenal gland produces cortisol, slows down other necessary organs and systems in your body. Thus, creating a stress response. Continuing to live in fight and flight mode depletes the body of this necessary stress hormone and leaves you vulnerable to illness.
The most important action that can be taken is; to stop and connect to what your body is feeling. To learn what it is experiencing right now. What emotions have you ignored and stuffed deep into your body?
Know that it’s okay to cry. When you cry your tears release cortisol, the stress hormone.
“Tears are God’s healing liquid.
Tears heal us when we’re holding too tight,
Tears help us be okay,
Tears show us and others that’s it’s safe to express our hurt,
our sadness, our pain, our joy and our elation.
Let the healing flow!”
- Maureen Gaetz-Faubert
Anxiety is reduced when you live in the now and stay in the moments you are currently experiencing. You are only capable of living in this moment. There is no possible way to live beyond the moment that you are in right now. When you try to control an outcome or live in fear about the future, you create chaos in your life and within your body. You miss the moment in time in which you are experiencing right now. The lesson that could be learned, the happiness that could be experienced and the excitement of the moment.
Our perceptions, thoughts and words affect our physical and emotional health.
Create what you want instead of fear and anxiety. Change your thoughts and words and it will change your perception of beliefs. Creating, writing and thinking affirmations such as:
I am safe in every situation.
I am learning new things right now.
I am protected by the power that resides within me.
Visualize positive outcomes for situations that you are unsure of.
Meditation gives your mind and body the opportunity to be silent, recuperate and heal.
If you need predictability and it gives you peace of mind, develop a daily structure. Begin your day with meditation, going for walk or some type of moment, have breakfast, etc. Always be open and anticipate that it may also change. Be excited for what may be or come. The outcome will be so much better than your hard-laid plans.
Live each day as your inner child. With wide-eyed wonder and awe. Embracing what you hear, see and touch. Believing that these are opportunities to discover the new and learn about the unknown. Become curious and open to all possibilities. Discover the 'aha' moments and learn from the knowledge. the knowledge.
