Anxiety

Many of us experience anxiety on a daily basis. Anxiety is a thought about what we want and don’t want, what should and should not be in the future. It is basically fear that we are not going to get what we want or we might lose what we have.

Anxiety, or being worried, is generally accepted as normal. While our culture promotes the thought that it is good to be ambitious to get everything we want, it can lead to the mental and physical problems of anxiety.

We experience anxious thoughts as a variety of symptoms from nervousness to high blood pressure and even eating disorders. If we are aware we are anxious we may try to manage it with meditation and exercise. When it becomes disruptive to our daily activities we might try therapy and medication.

Is it possible to heal our anxious thoughts about the future?

In the Personal View, this is difficult as there are so many things we want and think we need to be happy, and it is up to us to get them and keep them. But often what we want is not what we need. The narrow focus on just what we want interferes with receptivity to what we need.

The Spiritual View is the healing alternative to the anxious thoughts of wanting and not wanting. In the Spiritual View “wanting” is recognized as a troublesome thought about the future.

It can be replaced with gratitude for the good that is presently available in our lives, and the assurance that there is an abundance of good ideas to meet our needs.

For example with the Spiritual View we value being at peace first and foremost, not getting what we want.

With this peace getting what we want is good and not getting what we want is good. With peace everything is good and without peace nothing is good. This principle is true with all spiritual qualities. For instance with love, intelligence, clarity or gratitude everything is good and without at least one of them nothing is good.

The Spiritual View provides us with the mental freedom to expand how we see ourselves and our lives from the narrowness of getting what we want to becoming alert and receptive to the ideas that are needed in any situation.

This is the healing that the Spiritual View brings to anxiety.