Have you ever listened to someone define anxiety in precisely the way that it changed it completely?
I won't forget sitting in class and having my master coach say to everybody, "Now a lot of things are about to change in your life, and this will bring up some agitation, but just think of this anxiety as new things happening. "
Woah.
New things going down? I have never thought of it like that before. When we really get down to define anxiety in a strict sense, it's a honest feeling of worry or nervous tension about a situation that truly has a modest amount of uncertainty surrounding it. What could happen next? What will the outcome be? In a way, anxiety is a fantastic indicator of forward thinking or "row boat thinking," a phrase I have recently coined.
What is the thought behind "row boat thinking?"
Each one of us are given a very interesting account throughout our lives that sounds a lot like this..."I'll be happy when this occurs. It'll all turn out when I get there. " The issue is, we are rowing towards this island that doesn't exist. We think it's there, but it's one of the most beautifully created mirages we have ever seen. It's sexy. It's beguiling. It is simply enough to keep us grasping and thirsting for more. But there's real danger in this sort of thinking meanging that anxiousness can be our honest indicator that we are actually caught in the activity of doing it in the first place.
Living in the future can have as many negative side effects as living in the past. We all really know what it is actually like to need to escape our past, but I am going to venture to say that we absolutely must avoid living in the future as much. We can get stuck in some place, a very doubtful place, that candidly is beyond our control. Should you set goals and have a vision for what you want out of your life? Absolutely. But the danger is building the foundation of your contentment on such a place.
The one guarantee I'm able to make you about this life is that it'll change. You can't go to the past, the present is subject to change at any moment and the future is to be experienced.
So what are we able to do?
That uncertainty...love it. Embrace the hell out of it. The doubtful places in your life are occasions to have nothing short than true magic knock your socks off. Do you actually know what is going to happen? Absolutely not. Will you try to project as much as practicable? Yes, we've all done that haven't we? But when you start returning to the current time, over and over again because our minds never stop getting distracted, you get to totally be here. Here really is a great spot to be. Start really seeing what is occurring around you instead of spending so much time distracting yourself from everything that is not right here and now.
So all nervousness really is, when it really boils down to it, is new things happening. Like that feeling and sit with it. Really take a little time to really feel the chaos in your stomach and then take a minute to start to appreciate why it's coming up. "In this moment, what is the thing that's going down now that's honestly new?" When you begin to do that, well, things become a lot more fun. But when you stop living in times to come the anxiety disipates and begins to disappear altogether.
It is all about how we define anxiety in the first instance.
I won't forget sitting in class and having my master coach say to everybody, "Now a lot of things are about to change in your life, and this will bring up some agitation, but just think of this anxiety as new things happening. "
Woah.
New things going down? I have never thought of it like that before. When we really get down to define anxiety in a strict sense, it's a honest feeling of worry or nervous tension about a situation that truly has a modest amount of uncertainty surrounding it. What could happen next? What will the outcome be? In a way, anxiety is a fantastic indicator of forward thinking or "row boat thinking," a phrase I have recently coined.
What is the thought behind "row boat thinking?"
Each one of us are given a very interesting account throughout our lives that sounds a lot like this..."I'll be happy when this occurs. It'll all turn out when I get there. " The issue is, we are rowing towards this island that doesn't exist. We think it's there, but it's one of the most beautifully created mirages we have ever seen. It's sexy. It's beguiling. It is simply enough to keep us grasping and thirsting for more. But there's real danger in this sort of thinking meanging that anxiousness can be our honest indicator that we are actually caught in the activity of doing it in the first place.
Living in the future can have as many negative side effects as living in the past. We all really know what it is actually like to need to escape our past, but I am going to venture to say that we absolutely must avoid living in the future as much. We can get stuck in some place, a very doubtful place, that candidly is beyond our control. Should you set goals and have a vision for what you want out of your life? Absolutely. But the danger is building the foundation of your contentment on such a place.
The one guarantee I'm able to make you about this life is that it'll change. You can't go to the past, the present is subject to change at any moment and the future is to be experienced.
So what are we able to do?
That uncertainty...love it. Embrace the hell out of it. The doubtful places in your life are occasions to have nothing short than true magic knock your socks off. Do you actually know what is going to happen? Absolutely not. Will you try to project as much as practicable? Yes, we've all done that haven't we? But when you start returning to the current time, over and over again because our minds never stop getting distracted, you get to totally be here. Here really is a great spot to be. Start really seeing what is occurring around you instead of spending so much time distracting yourself from everything that is not right here and now.
So all nervousness really is, when it really boils down to it, is new things happening. Like that feeling and sit with it. Really take a little time to really feel the chaos in your stomach and then take a minute to start to appreciate why it's coming up. "In this moment, what is the thing that's going down now that's honestly new?" When you begin to do that, well, things become a lot more fun. But when you stop living in times to come the anxiety disipates and begins to disappear altogether.
It is all about how we define anxiety in the first instance.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is the author and creator of The Words Of Encouragement a website dedicated to bringing encouraging words to all those who are in need of some help, whether that ranges from helping people define anxiety to providing them with strong powerful quotes about life so they can continue to chase their dreams.
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