A person with generalized anxiety disorder describes how they learned to see anxiety as fear, often stronger in sensitive people. They argue that love is the opposite of fear, and that shifting toward love and positive thoughts can dissolve anxiety rather than fighting it directly.
I used to have crippling anxiety. In fact, anxiety was essentially part of my identity. I would tell my Boyfriends or friends, I have— I'm diagnosed with general anxiety disorder. So I'm going to act upset sometimes. And at that time, that version of me, that was the best I could do, was just to warn people, hey, I'm gonna freak out at some point, okay? Just beware, I'm gonna freak out on you. And I'm now in the realization that anxiety is fear of something, and my guess is a lot of people with anxiety are either energy workers or empaths, something where they feel emotions strongly. And when fear comes, it's amplified by their sensitivity, and so it shows up in a bigger way. It shows up as anxiety. Now, to me, the opposite of love is fear, and a spiritual path is a path that brings you closer to unconditional love. So let's go back to anxiety. If anxiety is fear of something That is the absence of love. Hmm, that's a little concerning. Oh, what do you do? Um, well, you learn not to fear fear. Oh, okay. No, don't fear fear. That's easy. Of course it's not easy. It's freaking hard, man, not to fear fear, especially when— if you identify as having anxiety or a lot of stress. I feel that's fear too, because you, you fear not the consequences of not doing X, Y, and Z. So how do you not fear fear? Hmm, well, that probably has something to do with love. You gotta move yourself into an energy of love. Some people might call this ascension or awakening. Every time you have an awakening, you move into and integrate more Love. We don't want to fear fear, but we're not sure how. You know, it has something to do with love and how we got integrated in. It's the unknown, can be scary, but it can also be like full of miracles and amazing things. Hmm, glass half full kind of thinking here. Why not? Why the fuck not? Well, because it hasn't in the past. Okay, why can't we just start a new trend though? If our thoughts control our reality, maybe if I change my thoughts to positive— there's a lot you can do, you guys. I would say just begin seeking it. If you're just, okay, universe, I don't want to fear fear anymore, I want to step into love, it's going to show you how. And I feel like that'll look a little different for each of us. We're going to be doing the same work, we just might do it through different methods. And to me, that's the beauty of it all. It all gets us to the same place.
