How to Be Alert. Not Anxious.
9 tips.
“An adventure that every human being has to live through is learning to be anxious so as not to be ruined either by never having been in anxiety or by sinking into it. Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
It's hard to separate alertness from anxiety. Most days they tend to come bonded together and seldom leave without leaving some worry crumbs on the table. Alertness is the preferred, filtered state obviously, and I have found some hacks to use both to my advantage and also to quickly filter the anxiety out.
- Receive all problems as truffles that just need a good rinse.
Every problem comes packed with its opposite inside it. First, you have to believe that. It’s the dualistic law of nature. Light and shade. Beginning and ends. Up and down. They go together.
David Barlow defines anxiety as “a future-oriented mood state in which one is not ready or prepared to attempt to cope with upcoming negative events. This definition implies an emotional resistance to an unknown future event. But if we can reframe these future events as welcome encounters with…
