The Initiation of Anxiety

Your panic & anxiety is the ultimate test for whether you believe your thoughts to be true.⁠

When you're experiencing a strong emotional charge, your thoughts will be convincing AF.⁠

Your mind will do its very best to regain a sense of control.⁠

And as long as you believe that your mind can help you achieve the safety you seek, you will suffer immensely.⁠

Every time that you bring your awareness back into feeling your body & becoming present to the NOW, you create space to experience the safety that the mind can never give you.⁠

In addition, by feeling your body WHILE the anxiety is high, you are giving your system *new* information.⁠

As a child you did not have the capacity to feel this panic - and so you had to dissociate. This was actually an intelligent response at the time.⁠

However now, your ADULT nervous system repeats this pattern of dissociation.⁠

By gently bringing your awareness back into your body time & time again, your system learns that it CAN feel this.⁠

And this is how your capacity builds - as your system learns to be present to the feelings it once ran away from.⁠