Especially in the modern world, unfortunately, a degree of constant anxiety has become an almost normalized state for us. A large portion of our mental health problems as a collective is very much about anxiety and fear. Burn-outs, career pressures, problems with self-esteem, fear of others, stress about studies etc.
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Originally published in News 24 on 7 October '23
Especially in the modern world, unfortunately, a degree of constant anxiety has become an almost normalized state for us. A large portion of our mental health problems as a collective is very much about anxiety and fear. Burn-outs, career pressures, problems with self-esteem, fear of others, stress about studies etc. All of this is anxiety at its root and very commonplace.
It is actually a good sign if you see that anxiety rides your mind because then you can do something about it. Most of us do not even realize how tense and insecure we are within.
How to deal with anxiety? There is a part of anxiety that is related to facts and there is a component of anxiety that rests upon imagination. Purely imaginary will lose its sting, the moment you see it is merely imaginary. It is not anxiety that bothers you but your anxiety about anxiety. Let anxiety come and go. Why must you plan to react to it? You energize the anxiety by giving it undue importance. Why can’t you let anxiety be? You cannot have depth in your life until you have gone through the whole spectrum. You need to experience maddening anger, a razing force of lust and a terrible temptation to be dishonest. Go through all of this without suppressing it. You need to call anger as anger, lust as lust, shame as shame, and yet stand firm. You must be able to laugh at it even in the middle of it.
