Tag: anxiety
Being Imaginative Can Enhance the Transformation Process
Last week I was working with a client who has a tendency to imagine that the worst things are going to happen to his family. The images are not based on concrete reality. It is like his mind goes on walkabout trying to think of dark things. He was having thoughts about his sisters dying, …
The Code of Anxiety 2 Examples
In the last post I talked about how anxiety is the negative emotion that is trying to wake up confidence in yourself. Confidence is the ability to embrace the positive abilities that you already have developed so that you can put them into action. It is almost like a feeling of being grounded in yourself. …
The Anxiety Code: Moving Towards Confidence
Anxiety, for me, is like the emotional pandemic of our times. If we could all find a way to do a better job with anxiety, we could all be so much more productive. What is anxiety, aka, worry, and how does it operate? I like to start talking about anxiety by comparing it to fear. …
Why so many People Believe in Conspiracy Theories and Not in the Facts
If you are like me, you may be scratching your head at why so many people in the world seem to be able to completely ignore facts and data based upon research, but readily believe conspiracy theories or cling to old worn out practices. I first came upon this phenomenon when I attended the U.S. …
The Secret Code to Transformation 2: Anxiety
One of the ways I help people get a handle on anxiety in my practice is to compare it to fear. Fear results in a negative vision of the future because of some experience that has occurred in the past. Fear is experienced based. It always requires developing a new capacity to improve one’s effectiveness …
Dealing with Worry Part 2: How to Not Allow Worry to Take You Over the Edge to the Dark Side
In part one of dealing with worry I was trying to show that when you are confident with your internal gifts and act out of them, then positive things begin to show up all around. What happens when worry gets the better of you? Human beings have two aspects to themselves, an ego, which is …
Day 9 Change: Fear or Anxiety?
“The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds; he whose words exceed his deeds, know verily his death is better than his life.” Baha’u’llah In dealing with transformation issues it is often very helpful to understand the difference between fear and anxiety. Anxiety is the feeling that you get when you …
Anxiety: It Is All an Illusion
Being worried is a very curious emotion. It doesn’t make very much sense and it is very non-productive. The other day, after I had been feel anxious at my work, I began wondering why it suddenly appeared. I am not normally a very anxious person, but somehow thoughts started to get into my head which …
Choosing the Right Goal: Material or Spiritual
Goal setting is a relatively easily process if you know where you are in your life right now. Most people are driven by what someone else tells them is important which is material in nature such as more money, better sex, a better body, a better house, a faster car, a more beautiful garden, going …
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