Being constantly anxious and worrying affects our
physiology; it affects the heart, circulation, the nervous system. It unsettles us and creates internal imbalance, often manifesting in reactive
behaviour. Anxiety, worry and doubt can knock you around and attack your sense of self and your
self-worth.
A great definition of worry is:
"........ a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained." Arthur Somers Roche
Worry is fear and fear is often an incomplete picture or a perception from a past experience believed to be true. Fear is emotion based on incomplete awareness.
Fear can be described as 'false expectation appearing real'. Associated worry or anxiety is based on a story that you have told yourself and have repeated over and over to yourself so that it has become a way of being for you.
Anxiety then becomes a
negative habit of thinking that serves to reinforces a negative sub-conscious message and if allowed to
continue, 'worry' really does 'cut a channel' in the brain by way of myelinating
neuronal pathways over and over. It blocks us from allowing a complete awareness
to emerge.Constant worry, anxiety depresses the immune system.
So here's a suggestion:
- find what the action was that triggered the fear or worry or angst.
- Write down as many ways as you can think of that, that very same action (that triggered you to feel anxious), actually assists you or someone else in some way. - WRITE all those things them down - don't just think about them - write them down in order to get a complete awareness.
Your
perception will alter, your worry / anxiety will decrease.
Your physiology will thank you. You will begin creating different neural pathways in your brain.
TRY IT!
