The other workshop attendees sit on the couch, while I sit alone at the dining room table. As I scan the room, pretending to be deeply engaged in everything I see, I feel the familiar clenching in my chest and throat. All my thoughts and feelings are slamming into each other in a kind of mental-emotional traffic jam.
In psychology speak, this is called “Emotional Flooding”. And in this case the flavour is: “anxiety”.
You get that life is short, and you want to live your greatness as your True Self—I mean, seriously, who doesn’t?
But it’s so damn complicated, isn’t it? So confusing. And then you need to go get tacos and gelato to deal with all the stress and anxiety (or maybe that’s just me.).
What’s your number one enemy when you’re trying to make your “big vision”—what you most want to do and create—become your reality?
It’s a feeling, caused by believing in a thought.
You wake up and…what’s that? A vaguely uncomfortable (or, perhaps, distinctly awful) feeling that you immediately want to get rid of.
No worries. You drown it with coffee, maybe even distract yourself with mantra meditations but, a few hours later, you notice it’s still there. You tell yourself you’re just bored, or restless. Maybe you need a “new” thing: a lover, job, hobby, TV series, iPhone.
It’s frustrating. You want something from someone and they’re not giving it to you. You want respect, love, attention, time, something. But you aren’t getting it.
How do you get your needs met without wigging out?
When we believe a thought that isn’t true, it causes us pain. Here’s why.