On the road to managing your mind & rewiring anxiety?
Welcome. While certainly not easy, it’s possible and you must believe it is possible.
By far, one of the most foundational elements in my recovery was finding a purpose, a reason to get out of bed in the morning more powerful than my anxiety.
Here’s an image from my anxiety program to show how recovery is possible…
Anxiety hijacks your brain’s biochemistry. Making it go from just an idea or thought in your head to control your emotions, mood, neurotransmitters, and even changing behavior at a biochemical level.
If you want to change your biochemistry, you must change your lifestyle.
Going outside for walks, changing your diet, exercising regularly, sleeping like a boss, learning how to mindfully meditate, practice breathwork, and much more.
However, these simple tasks might seem impossible for you to do daily. Why?
Because you haven’t experienced the result yet.
Why work hard and do things differently, which is very hard especially for your brain when you don’t know the reward?
I bet a part of you even thinks what you’re doing isn’t even possible and is just a waste of time or someone else is going to sell you a program that won’t work for you.
You need a purpose.
In this article, we will lay out how to begin to find your purpose for anxiety recovery…
I. Death
Death is the one aspect of life that cuts through the noise. All your bills, issues, struggles, are all put in perspective when you think about dying one day…
What I learned is the biggest fear of the human psyche is death. The idea and inevitable reality we will perish one day and what exists in front of us will no longer be available.
You might think to yourself, yea death isn’t great but it’s certainly not my top fear. Here’s the thing, why do you think every single major culture, religion on planet earth has created a structure around the afterlife?
If you understand that you will die one day, are you going to fear the opinions (which are neurotransmitters firing together in your brain) of other people when you want to do what you want to do?
Are you going to fear picking up the phone and calling up somebody and telling them what you have always wanted to tell them if you know we're all gonna die one day?
Are you going to be shy and not participate and speak up and add valuable thought and value to others when one day you will die?
I was first introduced to this idea when I heard Steve Jobs famously say:
“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living somebody else’s life.”
When I slowly began to come to terms with the fact I could step outside of my apartment and get hit by a truck and die...
I began asking myself:
Why would I care about the perceived opinions of others on what I do in my life? Why the hell wouldn’t I have done what I wanted to for the sake of my own life, the people I love, and the future of this world?
When you come to terms with Death. You realize you must recover from anxiety because the stakes of not recovering, will cause you more pain in the long term.
II. People
Who took care of you when you were too weak to take care of yourself?
Can you repay them? Especially when they are too weak to care for themselves?
All of us undoubtedly have people in our lives we care so much about.
It could be your kids, your partner, your parents, a friend, etc.
And then there are people who you haven’t met yet. People who need to know who you are. People who could have their lives changed because of you.
It’s so important to step outside of yourself. Your purpose must be bigger than you. Even though anxiety recovery has a lot to do with just you. It has a lot to do with the people you surround yourself with the most.
How can you change your partner’s life?
How could you be changing and helping your kids?
Whether you own a business or are an employee in a company, how could they be helped if you were the best version of yourself?
III. Your Potential
Before I stepped out into who I am today and left social anxiety.
I always had this nagging feeling in the back of my head that I wans’t living my life. I felt like I had missed out on my entire life because I wasn’t the person I wanted to be in most situations.
Today, I still have many problems and pains but I don’t struggle with that anymore.
I don’t struggle with the sense that I’m not using my potential. I don’t struggle from a sense that I’m wasting my life or I’m not who I am deep down.
When you go to sleep at night, this is the biggest alleviator against anxiety. You are who you are deep down, take it or leave it, and you’re not hiding from anyone.
Conclusion
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