2014
Here's what I've recently learned to ask myself when anxiety heightens: I wonder if an experience that I'm involved in, today, has unlocked the spring release on my 'baggage', suggesting that an unidentified fear has leaped from my subconscious into my conscious mind. Once this unnamed fear has been aroused, anxiety creating mental tension, severs my connection to intutive thought, where solution seeking plans shape up, naturally, inside my mind. As anxiety heightens, my self trust declines, and next thing I know, I'm judging myself guilty of some act of selfishness when nothing could be further from the truth. Having learned how easily subconscious fear filters into our conscious minds, I take a time out to think really deep in hopes of coaxing that fear to show itself to me so that whatever is really causing my anxiety to excalate calms down.
While pondering upon what's taking place in my life that's arousing such a heightened state of internal discomfort, I consider whether my recent actions are truly guilty of wrong doing or whether I feel guilty about placing my needs in the same pot that's usually reserved for the needs of everyone I love. If I determine that fullfilling a personal need, which makes my heart, mind and spirit soar, is also arousing feelings of guilt, I calm my noodle in order to plug into intuitive thought, which historically inspires me to satisfy needs in such a responsible fashion as to conjure up simple plans, based in logic, that consider the well being of everyone, including me.
Though taking time out to think deep has been my pattern for years, here's what's new: respecting my needs instead of feeling guilty of being selfish. Whenever thoughts of being selfish fill me with guilt, I can only see two choices: chose them or choose me. The narrowness of that thought pattern forgets the entire spectrum of logical choices, separating selflessness from selfishness—which prove to be polar opposites. Tension produced by such a black or white attitude does not allow me to make good use of all of the grey matter that exists between my ears, and as I've mentioned before, selflessness is not all that it's cracked up to be. Once I learn to consider my needs respectfully (stories to come), I'll make good use of time out to calm anxiety until insight brightens my mind with a simple plan that's based in the concept of—balance in all things.
It's important to note that balance in all things includes balancing emotion with logic, and here's why that's true: Once insight into identifying a subconscious fear is mine, clarity offers anxiety sound reason to calm down. At this point, peace of mind is mine and my brain functions as a whole. As this process deepens my sense of self trust, intuition, which had been out of commission, feels free to rise like a Phoenix, and next thing I know, my sixth sense whispers a simple plan into my ear. Knowing that these plans have met with success for more than forty years, I return to the solution seeking table feeling so re-vitalized that my spirit can't sit still for wanting to dance a jig.
Each time a simple plan pops out of my mind, I enjoy an AHA! moment, followed by—now why didn't I think of that, before! Then, I remind myself that anxiety is born of a negatively focused attitude, and negative attitudes create inner conflict, which runs interference with positively focused, solution seeking plans that prove to be intuitive in nature …
And as today's train of thought pulls into the station, please keep these points in mind until you hear ... All Aboard ... when the sun comes out, tomorrow:
Subconscious fear need not be traumatic to disrupt the brain from functioning as a well balanced whole …
Subconscious fear, which causes the solution-seeking portion of the brain to tense up, may seem utterly unrelated to the experience that is stimulating anxiety to rise until you dive in deep ...
When we are not accustomed to diving deep, we tend to believe we know what's causing anxiety to heighten, when in truth—we don't—for this reason: We don't know what we don't know until that which we don't know is known—and once we know that which we didn't know before, everything that didn't make sense makes perfect sense, at last. If you feel skeptical about the logic behind that brain twister, I believe you'll trust me to know what I'm talking about as the next couple of stories unfold … Seriously. if you know me at all, you know I dig in until deeper truth speaks to me, and that's why I'm not known for being insightful for nothing ... Last thought for today: Imagine me having fun with double negatives ... LOL ...
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