Are You Plagued By Anxiety, Worry, Stress?
July 22, 2010 by selfimprove
Are you feeling tense or anxious? Do you regularly worry? Do you suffer from your nerves? Do you get easily flustered? Do you get stressed out? If you perceive yourself to be suffering from any of these afflictions, then you’re letting your mind play tricks on you. The inner you cannot be nervous, anxious, stressed or uncertain. The real you is incapable of suffering from stress or worry. All these issues are symptoms of an over-active personality – when you feel that you’re suffering from them, it’s only your personality trying to trip you up.
What you must realize is that your personality – from the Latin persona, meaning a mask – is nothing more than a mask that not only conceals the real you from everyone else, it has misled you into thinking that it is, in fact, who you are. But, psychology tells us that your personality is a series of snapshots of people and events that impressed you when you were a young child – what we normally call our formative years. You snapped photos of these things because they were important enough to make you feel good or bad about yourself at that time. Unfortunately, psychology also tells us that the normal person is much more disposed to dwell on the negative rather than the positive photographs.
And your subconscious mind is currently obsessed with those snapshots and it is this obsession that creates your personality. Essentially, your personality is not real – it may have got you to where you are and you may really like it – but take care that you don’t fall in love with an illusion.
To rid your daily life of the afflictions from which only your illusory personality can suffer – worry, stress, anxiety, self-doubt, fear, frustration – you need to go beyond that personality, your perceived strengths and weaknesses. You’ve to go in search of the real you because not only does it not know worry, stress, doubt, not only is the inner you fearless, the real you is capable of achieving effortless success and happiness. The great news is that you won’t have to look to hard to find the inner you – it’s crying out to be discovered. You’ll uncover the real you in the quiet of a reflective moment, in the experience of one of those wonderful “natural high” moments that we experience at some point in our lives – where peace and contentment reign.
However, you shouldn’t wait for the next peak moment to get over the illusions of worry, stress and all the rest. You can do that right now by doing some meditation. When you meditate you will start to experience that stress, worry and fear are simply poisonous thoughts and that a clear and focused mind (the real you) simply has not time for such rubbish – it has much more pressing things to do.
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