A Few Thoughts on Anxiety
An Emotion & an Attachment
Anxiety is an emotion.
It’s an emotion whose platform is fear. Fear/anxiety is exogenous, triggered by external events, or endogenous, triggered internally.
It takes me out of the present moment. Anxiety is the flipside of excitement, augmented by anticipation.
Fork in the Road (choice points)
I ask myself, “Will I be okay no matter what unfolds in my attached daily life?”
The first fork
If the answer is “No,” then my go-to habit (lodged in the body, mind, and/or heart) is a source of attachment or identification. Breathing and relaxing helps it release in the moment.
The second fork
If the answer is “Yes,” (I will be okay no matter what exigent circumstances arise.)
Of course, that doesn’t mean that the anxiety will “go poof”! It means my letting go of the attachment to feeling anxious may change. It alters how and to what degree the feeling manifests.
Why? Letting go of attachment implies a core being within me that dwells in an eternity in the present moment.
