If not, how do we protect ourselves? Note that there is a difference between mental and physical anxiety. Mental anxiety is any kind of concern about something that may happen in the future [1]. Physical anxiety is the fight-or-flight response you feel in certain situations. Your heart may start racing, you may feel fidgety or light-headed, and you might sweat or feel like your body’s temperature is uncomfortably rising or high.
Concern about the future can be helpful for making strategic plans and thinking ahead, but when that concern starts negatively impacting one’s physical or mental health, it’s likely time for one to start renewing their mind. The word anxiety disorder is typically used when one’s anxiety starts becoming disadvantageous. To reiterate, there are times when thinking about the future is helpful. We don’t advocate that you ignore what would be in your best interest to plan for or anticipate.
We are against anxiety that weighs one down and negatively impacts one physically or mentally, which is what physical anxiety typically does. There is a reason our bodies have physical anxiety. Anxiety can be useful for situations where we need extra adrenaline to take on a life-threatening task like fighting a lion but apart from those type of situations, at Clarity, we put forward that our creator doesn’t want us to use physical anxiety for any other reason. Instead of experiencing or getting physically anxious about something–even life-threatening things–we can honor the fact that we really dislike or would like to avoid that thing(s).
Sometimes we overlook that we are allowed to be cautious of things (to any degree of our liking). This shift in thinking will require you to be comfortable with your desire to be cautious and honor this desire when others label your cautiousness as fear, cowardice, etc. You may also have to start listening and acting on your true wants and wishes over the desires and wishes others think you should honor or pursue. As you do the work of eliminating your triggers, you’ll naturally reveal the different ways you unknowingly/unconsciously use anxiety.
Note: You are not perfect so getting rid of your anxiety may take time and effort. Everything we produce at Clarity is aimed to help you on that journey.
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—References
(1)https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323454#what-is-anxiety
