Jake Burhans breaks down how to handle fear, anxiety, and jealousy in three steps: notice the emotion, trace it back to what triggered it, and understand why. Once you see the pattern, you can recognize it faster next time and let it pass instead of getting stuck in it.
Well, the first step is always just awareness. That's it. It's the awareness that it's there. That's the first step of anything. So anytime you have a, you know, you fear fear or anxiety or jealousy or whatever the case may be, kind of those lower-level negative emotions, it's first of all recognizing it, okay? And then it's stepping back after the fact, 'cause you might be in it, you might get into this groove of fear for like an hour and then you're like, oh wait, wait a second, why am I in that? And then you look back, hey, it was this event. And then you try to think about why, what about that event caused it? And once you can get to the root of it, then you can begin to recognize it as it comes up, and you can switch out of it quicker, and then eventually it kind of dissolves. So I think it starts just with the awareness, and then when it comes up, just realizing that it's just— it's literally just energy.
