Reflection: The Other Side of Anxiety

Very often, when hurt or depressed or anxious, we encounter powerful feelings like ghosts without a body, trying to pour themselves into us, trying to dominate our lives. They seem to gather in the cave of our pain.

After years of struggling to let my painful feelings out, I’m learning that the other side of this, which is just as essential to my well-being, it’s not to let the hurt or depression or anxiety set up camp inside me.

It has taken me all this way to fully understand that the purpose of surfacing these powerful feelings is to continually empty my heart and mind of its sediment, so that new life can make its way into me. New life is the other side of anxiety.

There are dangers to not letting such feelings out. But once felt, there are dangers as well to not letting such feelings move on through. Or just as our lungs must stay clear for the next mouth full of air, our heart must stay obstructed for the next feeling we encounter.

Take a moment to reflect, what does the other side of anxiety look like to you? What does it feel like? What thoughts run through your head? take a few deep breaths and meditate on this... Namaste.

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