Fear becomes anxiety when it makes its home in you. Its chief attachment is not memory or villain or situation or future; its chief attachment and subject is you. This strange and imprecise fear can torment the body and enshroud all other fear experiences.

Accept it as something that will be with you for some time yet – in fact while you recover – but something that will eventually leave you if you are prepared to let time pass and not anxiously watch the churning during its passing.

If you mindfully accept (or feel) these messages, they will have done their job and will tend to melt away of their own accord.

It’s all right to have anything, as long as you don’t let it bring you anxiety and fear. If things come to you, let them come; enjoy their presence. But when they go, enjoy their departure too.