Anxiety – An Enemy or A Friend ?

 
“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.”
Paulo Coehlo

Anxiety bestows a feeling of suffering that would never be welcomed.

Anxiety is like a dark cloud that brings with it, a long season of rain. We should not fear the rain as it helps us to grow.

You will always notice that rainwater has a tremendous capacity to help plants to grow. But not the regular water has this capacity.

In the same way, normal situations make us sluggish, we never try to cope up with the harsh situations, expect life to move on the road, it is proceeding with.

But when some rigorous conditions and probabilities are different, arise in a manner, one is vulnerable to react, then is the time, then is the opportunity to survive or to depart or to revolt or to cope up with life.

Life is not a bed of roses – we understand in these times. If we are enough strong to handle with, we will be called champions, otherwise…….

You cannot stop the rain from sprinkling, but you can bring an umbrella with you; or go under the roof, for cover.

Life is about making choices and you can choose to wallow in your misery or believe that there’s a rainbow after the rain. 

Believe that you deserve good things and start caring for yourself. Anxiety feels heavy, but strength wills us to be capable beyond realistic measure.

Anxiety is protective. When a person is nearing any of his or her harmful triggers, anxiety sets in. Anxiety sends an alarm throughout the body and begins to manifest as sweating, raised heartbeat, rapid breathing, and increased sensitivity.

Once the release of adrenaline is triggered, the person is armed with the “fight or flight” response. The whole process begins in the Amygdala within the hypothalamus of the brain. A distress signal is communicated, and adrenaline is released. 

Several things can bring anxiety to a person and with the efficiency of such bodily responses, protective measures take place. It is the body’s natural response to danger.

It is physiologically short-term and typically resolves on its own, but when your anxiety is prolonged and has gone over 6 months, this is extreme.

When your anxiety is keeping you from existing normally, what you have is a serious disorder.

“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” Steve Maraboli