Open the Door To Joy
Even though anxiety is all about stress, not everyone identifies with having anxiety, but everyone can identify with having stress in their life. I'm reaching out to stress sufferers who want to find more joy even with the worries and anxiety of everyday life.
Read MoreThe de-stress skills are called mindfulness techniques. They are called mindfulness techniques because you are bringing your attention to what is happening at the moment.
Read MoreHave you ever been scared to death (figuratively speaking) to do something fun that might embarrass you but did it anyway? Did you find that it brought you joy?
If so, you were probably in the moment, once you began your scary adventure. Because when you are able to be in the moment - the present moment with present moment awareness - there is no anxiety about the past or worry about the future.
Read MoreIn today’s installment, you’ll learn how to see your stress in a new light to create a new perspective and find all the gifts your stress has to offer.
Read MoreWhat if you didn’t have to hope for your anxiety to disappear and for comfort to magically appear? What if you could experience joy by exploring what causes your worries? What if you could find a new appreciation, even gratitude for a past regret that once only seemed to anger and depress you? And what if instead of viewing anxiety as a barrier to happiness and something to avoid, you could see it as a gift?
Read MoreWhether your anxiety is quiet or loud, there is a difference between anxieties in the first part of our lives versus the second half. In the first half, there are so many life issues to ponder over which we have so much doubt, worry, and angst.
Read MoreTo reduce the worries of the now…we must recognize that the uncertainties and concerns of the second half will happen. It is no longer, What if my spouse dies before me? Instead, unless you die together, one of you will outlive the other. So, if we know that the worries that we fear will happen, we need to find peace with our mortality, the inevitable course of events that we now face. We need to find ways to live comfortably and joyfully with the anxieties that life over fifty can bring.
Read MoreTapping is a wonderful tool that can help with many different issues. I have used it with various different obsessions, compulsions, and phobias. Delving into the possible origins of obsessive thoughts, compulsions, or phobias may be helpful to identify the source of any fears, but when it does not decrease the anxiety that arises, then tapping can often be very helpful.
Read MoreIf you are familiar with anxiety from the first half of life, you may continue to believe that you must consider all the possible computations of “what ifs,” a ruminating, obsessive style of worrying, an inner rant of negative thoughts. What if I fail, fall apart, throw up, have a heart attack, let someone see me shake, or go crazy? You may believe that it is helpful to imagine all the consequences a particular behavior or action may have before you complete it.
Read MoreIf you ever have been labeled a worrywart, you may worry that your anxiety is out of proportion to someone else’s anxiety. You may worry that you worry too much. You may be in a constant state of anxiety about what might happen to you, or someone else. Maybe you are focused on all the negative things that happened in your past. You may wonder if any or all of this is normal.
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