Instead of trying to eliminate anxiety, learn to control it. Anxiety evolved as a warning system, but when it dominates all day it becomes a burden. Small shifts in how you relate to it can dramatically improve your life.
I think what overwhelms us is thinking we need to eliminate the parts of ourselves, whether it's anxiety or stress or depression or whatever it may be, that we need to eliminate those in order to be happy and. And have a good quality of life. And if eliminating them is possible, then I'm screwed. But actually, just a few degrees of difference, right, Changes your quality of life profoundly, for sure.
So, yeah, anxiety is a good thing at the moments where it needs to be around. Like if you are walking in a dark alley and you start to get a really anxious feeling, your body might be sending you a signal, right? It is. It is built into the human system for a reason, and it's a protection mechanism. But if anxiety is running the show all day long, well, then it's a problem. And so it's like when it has control over you, it becomes a problem. When you have control over it, it just becomes another thing that's a piece of the whole human, of who you are.
