Anxiety, what exactly is anxiety? Could anxiety simply be when a person does not feel equipped to deal with what’s in front of them, or is there more?
Life presents tricky or challenging situations, and if we do not feel we can handle what is presented, do we then feel overwhelmed or anxious? Why do we feel unable to deal with what life presents to us, and when did this start?
If we look at very young babies they are not anxious, yet they have come into a new world and seemingly have no skills or abilities. Most babies are very laid back and surrendered to what life presents, after all they have no choice. So when and why does this change?
Babies are beautiful in their essence, being true to themselves. What if continual pressures from the outside, parents, health visitors, etcetera puts an on-going pressure for the baby to be more, to smile, to sit up and so on. These pressures never end, may be unspoken, some may be hidden; but if the baby feels the only way it can have attention, or be recognised for the amazing being it already is, is to leave itself and start doing ‘x’, ‘y’, or ‘z’ to get this love, could that be the start of us losing our true selves?
If we look at very young babies they are not anxious, yet they have come into a new world and seemingly have no skills or abilities. Most babies are very laid back and surrendered to what life presents, after all they have no choice. So when and why does this change?
Babies are beautiful in their essence, being true to themselves. What if continual pressures from the outside, parents, health visitors, etcetera puts an on-going pressure for the baby to be more, to smile, to sit up and so on. These pressures never end, may be unspoken, some may be hidden; but if the baby feels the only way it can have attention, or be recognised for the amazing being it already is, is to leave itself and start doing ‘x’, ‘y’, or ‘z’ to get this love, could that be the start of us losing our true selves?
If we stop being who we truly are, our natural glorious amazing selves, and try to become someone else to please parents or another, are we not giving up on our true selves, and will this not create a forever and on-going tension within ourselves, this tension is anxiety
Anxiousness is the tension between who we truly are in our essence as opposed to what we have become as a result of living in this world.
In order to truly heal this tension and anxiousness, does it not then follow that we have to return to who we are in our essence. This is obviously a process of letting go of what is not true for us, of being connected to, feeling and of honouring our bodies, building a deep love and acceptance of who we truly are. In all of this we let go of the limiting behaviours, let go of fear and insecurity, of pleasing others, of seeking acceptance, recognition, expectations, and pictures, and surrender to our inner wisdom. In this gradual return to our amazingness, our essence, we are increasingly guided by an inner wisdom that supports and prepares us for what life presents, and so when fully in our essence there is NO anxiety as we have access to all the wisdom we will ever need.
