Change your perspective of Anxiety

Are you being told your anxiety is a problem that needs to be treated, being prescribed medication or told you have a mental health condition? Or are you just feeling the shift in consciousness?

Anxiety is a feeling state that appears to be a reoccurring experience for more and more people these days and it looks to me like there is a correlation to the increasing sensitivity, which accompanies greater awareness. Personally I see it as a symptom of the expansion of conscious awareness, as we become aware of more and more subtle new energies, which are so unfamiliar to us, our body and minds cannot comprehend them. This triggers the feelings of anxiety.

The perception that anxiety is a problem with the mind and therefore a mental health issue, is actually quite unhelpful, because it labels it as a disfunction (diss-function) to be treated with medication. Whereas in fact I think we should be considering it more like the experiences of teething problems that occur when we are leaning to use a new skill or upgrading to a new operating system to integrate a life changing shift in paradigm.

The shift in paradigm is in fact an evolution of consciousness.

It is all too easy to slip into the belief that anxiety is something that should not be happening and therefore needs to be treated with medication (drugs) to dull or dampen down the sensations. However, this just serves to increase the mental resistance to it and whatever we resist will persist, keeping us stuck in discomfort (diss-comfort) taking more and more drugs to reduce the difficult feelings.

Whatever we resist will persist ….. Medicating anxiety keeps us stuck

Consider in fact that many anxiety attacks actually arise from a sudden and unexpected increase in clarity that makes us question some fundamental beliefs in how we have perceived things to that point. Anxiety arrises, because the new insight presents us with a whole new perception of life that we do not yet have the capacity to integrate, yet it feels so right.

It is in fact a mad world that considers anxiety as an illness, when in fact it has far more to do with a healthy growth in awareness, which expands consciousness and increases wisdom. It is actually a very natural part of life, it’s just that so much is changing at the moment and at such speed it is becoming an increasing challenge to keep pace with the new insights presented to us.

Anxiety arrises with new insights, new perspectives, with expanding consciousness and increased wisdom.

Anxiety is nothing to be ashamed of, let alone a sign of weakness in any way, it is simply the justifiable expression of our mysterious existence within an ever changing world viewed from multiple perspectives that by its very nature makes us question ‘reality’.

With the unexpected appearance of the unknown, changes in our environment and the emergence of new patterns of behaviour, it is natural for our limbic brain to stimulate a fight, flight or freeze response. Take a moment and breath into your body at these times, feel the energy of change and open yourself to receive its gifts.

Ultimately the only real constant in this world is change and we need in some way to learn to expect the unexpected, to embrace it as the incredible opportunity that it is. Rejoice in the anxiety that makes our bodies tingle, pulse and vibrate, as every cell of our being celebrates the new energy expanding our consciousness.

Nothing Lasts, but Nothing is Lost, there is Only Change, and with Change comes Opportunity……….