Feel it- Face it: Ups

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Ups

It's weird how anxiety and obsessiveness comes and goes and thank goodness it does. When I first started to experience the terrible anxiety, I didn't know what to do and I obviously wasn't doing any "work" to help it subside. Then after I learned some skills to retrain my thinking I had about 2 years where it didn't really affect me much, I thought I was "over it". Unfortunately, it came back, and when it comes back, I'm always afraid it's here to stay, but the truth is it comes and goes. That gives me a lot of hope. Knowing that the times when I feel like my anxiety is really bad, I can remember that "this too shall pass". Hopefully as I get more and more skilled at talking back to my thoughts, I will experience it less and less or be more prepared to feel it and face it and get on with my life.

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”