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Anxiety hits all of us from time to time. It is unavoidable, we live in a tension-filled world and since we cannot just check out and check in when the mood hits us, we have to learn to deal with our moments of disquietude. Me, I have this spot in my back, an old gym injury, that acts as my tension meter; it tightens and squeezes whenever I am feeling overly tense or anxious as if to ask, “Hey what’s going on here, what are you stressing about?” By the time it starts talking, I am at the stage where I am shouting at it to just shut up.
During times like these, sitting quietly is the last thing we want to do but it’s the best thing we can do for ourselves. We figure that with an already overactive mind, fueled by our disturbing thoughts, any attempts to sit and be still will be futile and this is where we are wrong.
We begin to get quiet and bring our focus more on the potential solutions and less on the many problems we face. And of course, the mind will run wild, it has limitless space, a bunch of worrying thoughts and vivid imagination, all ingredients for the creation of anxiety-laden mess.
But I invite us to persist and sit through it, watch the thoughts come and go, some we will engage even before we realize what we are doing, others we will let pass by. It may take a while but the benefits of this time you give to yourself are tremendous. The mind will eventually get tired, like a toddler after a sugar high; tormenting you becomes less thrilling, and it will quiet. The only thing for us to do is to be willing to sit it out.
Sit it out.
