I was listening to someone recently as they shared about something they’d experienced that was bringing a lot of anxiety into their life.
And goodness, who of us hasn’t been there at some point, right?!
But what kept standing out to me was that they were *locked in* and *determined* to fight for that anxiety to stick around.
Every sentence was focused on anxiety, what causes it, and why it would be impossible for it to not be there.
No matter the solutions offered or considered, anxiety was going to have a seat at their table, because they kept inviting it.
With open arms, they came into full agreement with whatever anxiety was piping off about – recognizing that there was irrational thinking and they could see how reason had left the building – they were fully in cahoots with that nasty little liar, anxiety, and I so desperately want them to have a different vantage point.
Isn’t that how it goes sometimes though? Other people can see so clearly for us that which seems impossible or unavailable to us.
We can want something SO badly for others, but if they’re not willing to consider that there’s a different way and that it’s literally possible to retrain and rewire your brain to think differently and experience life differently, then they’ll continue entertaining losers like anxiety (…and stress, and fear, and control, and anger, and depression, and the list goes on and on and on).
If you’re wanting things to be different than they are, but frustrated that they aren’t changing, I’d ask you to consider if what you’re speaking is welcome to anxiety (or fill in the blank here with what you’re dealing with) or if it’s repelling said annoyance.
If what you’re speaking would welcome anxiety to have its way, then it’s time to mute yo’self unless you’re gonna start speaking in a way that would reject that very thing causing you pain!
It really is up to you, but you have to be willing to see things from a different vantage point…
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