The mindfulness meditations you’ve experienced so far have probably helped to ease your stress and perhaps calm your anxiety.
As you probably know, anxiety is rooted in fear; one of our oldest emotions, it is automatically activated in many situations.
Its original function is to warn and protect us from danger. This danger is sometimes clearly identified, but not always; it can be irrational, diffuse, and sometimes seems indefinable. This is the birth of anxiety. Fighting anxiety is a natural tendency, but it requires a great deal of energy, often unnecessarily. Anxiety is a very strong feeling, in our hearts and in our bodies.
We can feel overwhelmed, overwhelmed, discouraged, out of focus, out of space, struggling to catch our breath. Anxiety can be a handicap to our lives. How can we relieve this feeling, this state of being? How can we calm and soothe anxiety? To feel deeply free and relieved.
The meditations I propose in this program are specifically designed to help us avoid drowning in painful anxiety. Learn to surf the waves of anxiety, rather than getting lost in them. See you soon.