At Last A Life

But previously I never accepted this; life always had to go how I wanted it to and others must behave how I thought they should.

The answer is that adrenalin affects your body by making it work much faster than usual and can drain the energy from your muscles. This is the reason your limbs may ache and why you feel so physically tired at times.

The truth is that it’s not you that is thinking about your anxiety; it’s your mind’s habit to continually think about the subject.

It is a self-created condition that is mainly brought on by long-term stress and worry and is your mind and body’s way of telling you that it has been overworked. Your body is trying to communicate with you and tell you to slow down and take things easy.

Live your normal life alongside anxiety, accept the thoughts and let them be in the background.

also believe that striving for acceptance of this condition can also become a battle in itself. As soon as I let go and started to live alongside these feelings without any effort to get rid of them, the acceptance of my condition came to me automatically and there was no need for any sayings or mantras.

The key here was to allow myself to fall into my deepest suffering without feeling the need to fix, change or suppress it, only then would I be truly allowing.

by refusing to feel it, nothing changed. It was only when I understood what was happening that my attitude shifted and I became open to it. As I now knew that this release, although uncomfortable, was a good thing and it was my body just looking after me by trying to free up this energy.

heal. Previously, I used to wake up and monitor how I felt and spend all day trying to do something about it. I finally accepted that when I woke, I would feel tired and anxious, my mind would probably race and that I would feel odd and detached for most of the day. I would not ignore it or pretend to like it, but for once I was not going to try an