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ANXIETY is something most, if not all of us suffer from on some level. Many of us inherited it from parents who were anxious or contracted all the time. Sadly, some of us (me) also passed it on to their child. For me, the desire to work through my own anxiety issues so my teenager can also be free is a powerful motivator.
Where does anxiety come from?
We use anxiety as a way of making sure we're okay, keeping ourselves safe, being sure we do all the things we're supposed to do, or say all the things we're supposed to say. We use it to fit in with society, to govern ourselves, to make sure we're right, perfect, correct, enough.
Is anxiety your intuition warning you of something?
Nope. I think we often misidentify anxiety as intuition. For example, you might choose to spend big on ads for a new release, but then get anxious about it. You wonder if your anxiety is warning you that you should change your decision or pivot.
Probably not. Intuition comes with a calm sense of knowing, not that anxious feeling.
In fact, anxiety may be your gut telling you you're thoughts are off-track from what you desire to manifest.
For those of you who are Abraham-Hicks fans, they talk about using feelings as a GPS pointing you in the direction of what you'll manifest. If you feel light and fluffy about something, your thoughts are aligned with creating a good thing. If you're experiencing negative emotions, your thoughts are aligned with creating something you DON'T desire.
So when you're experiencing anxiety, your body is telling you you're out of alignment energetically with what you actually desire.
I'm currently in a new romantic relationship and I realized recently that I was experiencing a great deal of anxiety around it. Energetically, I was keeping a tentacle out to my partner, trying to constantly monitor his feelings to make sure we were aligned. This action stemmed from fear or lack--the idea that we weren't fine and that the relationship required that much monitoring. It was totally depleting me and making me crazy.
I realized several things:
1) It's never appropriate to keep energy cords out to other people. Residing in your own energy is the healthy / productive way to be. Practicing a regular cord-clearing exercise to send back the energy you've taken on from others and pull back your own can be life-changing.
2) My anxiety was telling me that my thoughts and beliefs weren't in harmony with creating the relationship I desired. I was believing I wasn't enough.
3) The anxiety actually prevented me from showing up fully in the relationship, and--ironically--being enough. My partner was reacting to the way I held myself back and didn't fully share my thoughts and feelings.
We do the same thing in our author careers. We experience anxiety, which is telling us our energy contracted around the thing we wish to manifest.
Going back to the hypothetical book launch, let's say you got anxious about your ad spend. Now your energy is in lack around your ads and your launch. You might attract high-spending, low-ROI ads, and/or they might not be well-received by the viewers. You're not in a state of love and appreciation for your book--that "invitation" energy that pulls and magnetizes readers to your book instead of repelling them.
How do you clear anxiety?
1) Putting your hands on your body and sitting or lying for a moment to really tune into the place it resides can help it move through you instead of getting stuck. Send love to yourself and that area in your body. Breathe into it. Comfort yourself instead of judging what's happening.
2) Checking in with it and asking "What is this about?" might illuminate which lie you've bought that is creating the anxiety (that you're not enough, might fail, are unworthy, will be rejected or judged, etc)
3) Ask to feel what it would be like in your energy field to not have whatever lie you might have identified there anymore. For example, I asked to feel what it would be like to not have "I'm not enough" running the show and I felt the heaviness lift.
Need more help?
I'm available for private quantum healing/ energy clearing / manifestation sessions for $250/hour. I'm traveling a lot in July, but you can email me to see if we can schedule one.
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