Mindfulness is key to working with anxiety, and stress, and worry, because we can bring awareness to the energy of anxiety, stress, or worry. We can allow ourselves to experience the feelings and make a choice of whether we act on them. Without awareness, anxious feelings or stressful feelings will often lead us into acting in habitual ways. For example, if you feel anxious you may go to the fridge for something sweet, something that will help you to feel good. With awareness however, you might still choose to do that, but you also now have the choice to just stay with your feelings. A good question to ask yourself is, “What would I have to experience if I were not to act out this habit?” Your response would likely be to feel that unpleasant energy of anxiety or worry. In this meditation, we will work with the energies of anxiety and stress to lay the basis for more healthy and beneficial responses to these urges or stimuli.
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