ANXIETY
The Moment I Knew It Was Gone and Never Coming Back
The moment I knew anxiety was gone and never coming back was the moment I finally understood the truth. When we have anxiety or depression, the last thing we want to do is examine our pain. We want to stay as far away from our pain as possible, but running from our pain is what guarantees it never leaves us. Only the courage to look at it completely will finally get you to see what it really is.
So, I get this phone call and it’s a phone call I’ve been dreading and when I hang up, this “thing” takes over me. It’s a fear that has a hold of me and won’t let me go, but for the first time it didn't make any sense to me. So I tried to find the reason I was so afraid, but I couldn't think of anything. Everything I came up with was not something I was afraid of at all. So I found myself shaking with fear, as a conditioned way of responding to something that I’m no longer fearful of at all. All of the sudden in that moment I felt this release of resistance and an intense peace, because somehow this experience made me understand that no matter what happens, it can’t take anything away from me that is truly mine. We must know ourselves and the real reasons for our fear. My reason for fearing this in the past was because of what I thought people might think of me and I know EXACTLY who I am and it no longer bothers me one bit, what anyone thinks. Is this starting to make any sense to you? You see, I was always afraid to admit that what bothered me most was what other people thought of me, because I thought it would make me look like I didn’t care about others, but my book taught me that none of this is true! I know that I deeply care about others and so if other people don’t believe that, that’s ok with me.
Your anxiety is saying, “please don’t look at me, because I can’t survive if you know who I really am!” And of course we are scared into listening to this, but none of it is real.
The first step is to know, completely, who you are and then, h ave enough courage to see the absolute truth about why you fear what you fear and even why you do what you do.
The only road block to getting rid of fear is the truth, so if you still have anxiety, you have not yet found your truth.
~~Love Story~~
