There are times when the anguish and disorder of life seems to predominate in our awareness. Life seems messy and unpleasant, there is the chill of a nameless dread, and we feel ourselves an inadequate, neglectful part of the messy unpleasantness, a flimsy plastic shopping bag overstuffed with worry and unlived life, ready to come apart at the seams. <\/p>\n
How can we live with such feelings? Begin by being aware of them from a place of neutral, mindful observation. Anxiety ebbs and flows, rises and falls, it has a lifecycle, and one practice is to observe the lifecycle, see when it is intensifying, when it is peaking, when it is withdrawing or becoming quiescent. Don’t fuse and confuse the anxiety with any particular trigger events that seem to bring it forward. Have you felt such a feeling before the present circumstance existed? Almost certainly you have and should, therefore, disentangle the question of anxiety with the worry de jour. <\/p>\n
The deepest source of the anxiety may be a sense of unlived life. Rollo May defined anxiety as, “Being asserting itself against non being.” Anxiety can be the spiritual version of pain and pain can be life-preserving. There are some people who suffer from a rare neurological disorder where they cannot feel pain. Their lives are constantly in danger, they have to wear gloves and helmets to minimize unconscious injuries, and healthy tissue inevitably is destroyed by lack of sensation. Anxiety should not be medicated into numbness. You may need to be in touch with the part of you that feels constricted and neglected to know where to focus healing and transformation. <\/p>\n
In other cases, anxiety may arise like a change in the weather, its source may be inscrutable, and the best way to deal with the anxiety is to engage life and immerse yourself in the best use of your time right now. Monitor the anxiety with mindfulness and notice how well you function despite the anxiety. If you can’t function well, downshift into simpler, more mechanical tasks like house cleaning or laundry. Don’t let the anxiety paralyze you and make you passive — that only increases the dread. Don’t feel anxiety about having anxiety, as so many in our society do. Take constructive action. Just do the best you can today between now and bedtime. If it feels bad enough, stop for a moment and pray for the healing of yourself and all other beings who are similarly afflicted. You are not the only one in this nervous and unsettled world struggling to live with anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":{"card_id":"638","title":"Anxious Sojourner","caption":"
There are times when the anguish and disorder of life seems to predominate in our awareness. Life seems messy and unpleasant, there is the chill of a nameless dread, and we feel ourselves an inadequate, neglectful part of the messy unpleasantness, a flimsy plastic shopping bag overstuffed with worry and unlived life, ready to come apart at the seams. <\/p>\n
How can we live with such feelings? Begin by being aware of them from a place of neutral, mindful observation. Anxiety ebbs and flows, rises and falls, it has a lifecycle, and one practice is to observe the lifecycle, see when it is intensifying, when it is peaking, when it is withdrawing or becoming quiescent. Don’t fuse and confuse the anxiety with any particular trigger events that seem to bring it forward. Have you felt such a feeling before the present circumstance existed? Almost certainly you have and should, therefore, disentangle the question of anxiety with the worry de jour. <\/p>\n
The deepest source of the anxiety may be a sense of unlived life. Rollo May defined anxiety as, “Being asserting itself against non being.” Anxiety can be the spiritual version of pain and pain can be life-preserving. There are some people who suffer from a rare neurological disorder where they cannot feel pain. Their lives are constantly in danger, they have to wear gloves and helmets to minimize unconscious injuries, and healthy tissue inevitably is destroyed by lack of sensation. Anxiety should not be medicated into numbness. You may need to be in touch with the part of you that feels constricted and neglected to know where to focus healing and transformation. <\/p>\n
In other cases, anxiety may arise like a change in the weather, its source may be inscrutable, and the best way to deal with the anxiety is to engage life and immerse yourself in the best use of your time right now. Monitor the anxiety with mindfulness and notice how well you function despite the anxiety. If you can’t function well, downshift into simpler, more mechanical tasks like house cleaning or laundry. Don’t let the anxiety paralyze you and make you passive — that only increases the dread. Don’t feel anxiety about having anxiety, as so many in our society do. Take constructive action. Just do the best you can today between now and bedtime. If it feels bad enough, stop for a moment and pray for the healing of yourself and all other beings who are similarly afflicted. You are not the only one in this nervous and unsettled world struggling to live with anxiety.<\/p>\n","subcaption":"
Image with permission of the artist Robert W. Walker see THERW2Store.com<\/a> to see more of his amazing images and to purchase copies With the following, you can substitute the word “anxiety” for the parallel word “fear.”<\/p>\n The Litany Against Fear<\/p>\n I must not fear. The Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear – From Frank Herbert’s Dune Book Series See: An Antidote to Worry<\/a><\/p>\n See also “Dealing with Afflictive Thoughts and Feelings” in A Guide to the Perplexed Interdimensional Traveler<\/a> for more on the way anxiety works and specific techniques for transforming afflictive thoughts and feelings.<\/p>\n A number of the sections of my book The Capsule of Intentionality<\/i><\/a> deal with facing the difficulty of human incarnation.<\/p>\n Also very relevant:<\/p>\n The Way of the Warrior<\/a> Finally, if you feel strongly that the anxiety is coming from a source other than yourself, explore the Mind Parasite<\/a> category of the writing section on this site.<\/p>\n","disabled":false,"modified_date":"2019-06-11 21:08:01"},"x_categories":"Uncategorized","x_tags":"","x_featured_media":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0587-150x150.jpg","x_featured_media_medium":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0587-300x233.jpg","x_featured_media_large":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0587.jpg","x_featured_media_original":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0587.jpg","x_date":"June 11, 2019","x_author":"tanner","x_gravatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4017060190fb5487d537abae665e3d77?s=96&d=mm&r=g","x_metadata":{"_card_id":"field_5f56e5da62a59","card_id":"638","_title":"field_650ed74857f7e","title":"Anxious Sojourner","_caption":"field_650ed7d657f80","caption":"There are times when the anguish and disorder of life seems to predominate in our awareness. Life seems messy and unpleasant, there is the chill of a nameless dread, and we feel ourselves an inadequate, neglectful part of the messy unpleasantness, a flimsy plastic shopping bag overstuffed with worry and unlived life, ready to come apart at the seams. \n \nHow can we live with such feelings? Begin by being aware of them from a place of neutral, mindful observation. Anxiety ebbs and flows, rises and falls, it has a lifecycle, and one practice is to observe the lifecycle, see when it is intensifying, when it is peaking, when it is withdrawing or becoming quiescent. Don't fuse and confuse the anxiety with any particular trigger events that seem to bring it forward. Have you felt such a feeling before the present circumstance existed? Almost certainly you have and should, therefore, disentangle the question of anxiety with the worry de jour. \n \nThe deepest source of the anxiety may be a sense of unlived life. Rollo May defined anxiety as, \"Being asserting itself against non being.\" Anxiety can be the spiritual version of pain and pain can be life-preserving. There are some people who suffer from a rare neurological disorder where they cannot feel pain. Their lives are constantly in danger, they have to wear gloves and helmets to minimize unconscious injuries, and healthy tissue inevitably is destroyed by lack of sensation. Anxiety should not be medicated into numbness. You may need to be in touch with the part of you that feels constricted and neglected to know where to focus healing and transformation. \n \nIn other cases, anxiety may arise like a change in the weather, its source may be inscrutable, and the best way to deal with the anxiety is to engage life and immerse yourself in the best use of your time right now. Monitor the anxiety with mindfulness and notice how well you function despite the anxiety. If you can't function well, downshift into simpler, more mechanical tasks like house cleaning or laundry. Don't let the anxiety paralyze you and make you passive -- that only increases the dread. Don't feel anxiety about having anxiety, as so many in our society do. Take constructive action. Just do the best you can today between now and bedtime. If it feels bad enough, stop for a moment and pray for the healing of yourself and all other beings who are similarly afflicted. You are not the only one in this nervous and unsettled world struggling to live with anxiety.","_subcaption":"field_5f56e61262a5a","subcaption":"Image with permission of the artist Robert W. Walker see THERW2Store.com<\/a> to see more of his amazing images and to purchase copies\nCard URL: http:\/\/www.zaporacle.com\/card\/to-collapse-or-not-to-collapse-the-wave-function\/","_private_comment":"field_650ed79257f7f","private_comment":"Created 6\/3\/11 revised 11-20-09, AI 2-19-11 347 638 clones","_filename":"field_5f56e692ecc95","filename":"2496","_footnote":"field_5f56e6b6ecc96","footnote":"With the following, you can substitute the word \"anxiety\" for the parallel word \"fear.\"\n\nThe Litany Against Fear\n\nI must not fear.\nFear is the mind-killer.\nFear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.\nI will face my fear.\nI will permit it to pass over me and through me.\nAnd when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.\nWhere the fear has gone there will be nothing.\nOnly I will remain. \n\nThe Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear - From Frank Herbert's Dune Book Series\n\u00a9 1965 and 1984 Frank Herbert\nPublished by Putnam Pub Group\nISBN: 0399128964\n\nSee:\nDealing with Zones of Inner Jeopardy<\/a>\n\n An Antidote to Worry<\/a>\n\nSee also \"Dealing with Afflictive Thoughts and Feelings\" in A Guide to the Perplexed Interdimensional Traveler<\/a> for more on the way anxiety works and specific techniques for transforming afflictive thoughts and feelings.\n\nA number of the sections of my book The Capsule of Intentionality<\/i><\/a> deal with facing the difficulty of human incarnation.\n\nAlso very relevant:\n\n\nMechanical Resistance Matrix<\/a>\n\nThe Way of the Warrior<\/a>\nWarrior Quotes<\/a>\nThe Taoist Path<\/a>\nTaoist Quotes<\/a>\nAwakening from Depression<\/a>\nAdhesions and the Timelines of the Unconscious<\/a>\n\nFinally, if you feel strongly that the anxiety is coming from a source other than yourself, explore the Mind Parasite<\/a> category of the writing section on this site.","_disabled":"field_650ed81a57f81","disabled":"0","_modified_date":"field_650ed83f57f82","modified_date":"2019-06-11 21:08:01","_thumbnail_id":"1191"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nFear is the mind-killer.
\nFear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
\nI will face my fear.
\nI will permit it to pass over me and through me.
\nAnd when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
\nWhere the fear has gone there will be nothing.
\nOnly I will remain. <\/p>\n
\n\u00a9 1965 and 1984 Frank Herbert
\nPublished by Putnam Pub Group
\nISBN: 0399128964<\/p>\n
\nDealing with Zones of Inner Jeopardy<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMechanical Resistance Matrix<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWarrior Quotes<\/a>
\nThe Taoist Path<\/a>
\nTaoist Quotes<\/a>
\nAwakening from Depression<\/a>
\nAdhesions and the Timelines of the Unconscious<\/a><\/p>\n