Reclaiming Your Life From Anxiety Symptoms
Only somebody who has lived with anxiety as either a
sufferer or a carer knows how devastating it can be. The
affect can be seen and felt across every aspect of your life
for years and years.
So how does anxiety make you withdraw from life?
Basically, people with anxiety live their lives defensively, at a
level where they are merely coping instead of embracing.
They are lifes passengers, passive in their emotional and
physical relationship with the world around them - rather
than activists who engage with their surroundings and
interact with people.
Now I want to share something with you that will probably
hopefully! shock you.
Have you ever sat down with pen and paper and worked
out how much time you spend feeling anxious every day of
your life? An hour? Two? Four? Ten?!
If you spend even a single hour a day in anxious mode, that
equates to 30 hours a month thats two waking days
every month where you could be playing with the kids,
training for a marathon run, taking up a hobby, visiting old
friends LIVING your life. Instead, youre wasting that
valuable time on your anxiety.
At its worst, I know my anxiety had reached the point
where it took over 90% of my waking thoughts. It left me
totally exhausted.
Looking back, I now know that by allowing this anxiety to
have such a huge stake in my life took real commitment on
my behalf!
So, I took control and by doing so, I was rewarded with all
this extra time and all this additional energy with which to
fill the hours in a positive way! What a bonus!
I cannot tell you the sense of relief and liberation this
sparked in me. And the most wonderful thing is, just as
anxiety is a downward spiral that sees you withdraw from
life, so this liberation is an uplifting cycle which grows and
grows. Once you begin, you cant contain it!
I know that if I hadn't taken control and eliminated my
anxiety for good, Id still be on that downward spiral
getting ever more sucked into the anxiety abyss where your
every waking moment is dominated by fear.
So, dont be afraid of the fear, the unknown. Instead, look
forward to all the wonderful possibilities that YOUR life has
yet to put your way!
Looking at my family, Im so glad I faced up to my own
fear. The answer is never in retreating from life its
everything to do with defeating anxiety.