When I am in cold I shake, but I feel fine. When I´m anxious I shake and I feel scared!! When I run fast my heart palpitates and I feel fine, even enjoy it. When my heart palpitates from anxiety I feel terrified! When I go on a rollercoaster my stomach churns with excitement and I have a thrill. When I am in a stressful situation my stomach churns and I feel terrible, and very scared, like I want to get sick.
On a hot day I sweat, but I feel calm. When I am stressed about something I sweat and I feel scared. Whats the difference in these two scenarios for when you feel scared and when you dont? In one you are comfortable feeling the symptoms and in the other examples not! Learn to live with your symptoms. Become confortable feeling uncomfortable. Learn to accept how you feel! Stop fighting it, surrender to it. Experience it. It is nothing more than a physiological feeling. Has it ever done you any harm? NO! And guess what it never will! Thats the beautiful truth! The problem is it is bluffing you. Anxiety and panic are th biggest con men of all time. Look at them for what they are. Experience them. Let it all happen. They are totally harmless!
We all want our anxiety to just dissappear and go away. This would be great of course. But unfortunately it just don´t work like that! If you´ve ever injured yourself, or cut yourself by accident you know it would have been pretty unrealistic to expect the injury or cut to heal immediately and be as good as new, just like that. It´s because the natural process of healing takes time.
And it´s exactly the same with anxiety. Your body and mind are tired. Just like a sprained ankle their recovery depends on enough time to pass for their recovery. If you sprained your ankle would you go running the next day? Of course you wouldn´t. remember that your mind and body need time. Have faith that as long as you are not letting the anxiety get to you, that you float forward and try to practise, although it may be hard, to accept that you suffer, then you will let your body and mind refresh. Learn to live with your anxiety. Accept it as part of your life. And then it will lessen.
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