Future Anxiety

Runaway fear focused on what might happen in the future is certain to produce anxiety. Planning for the future is practical and prudent, but worry just gets in the way. When we don’t know how to bring about our desired goal or even know what that is, the best...

Anxiety and Control

Anxiety results from wanting to control things, while fearing we won’t be able to. It begins with a concern that’s repeated over and over until our mind is spinning and our body tightly wound. Fortunately there is an antidote: trust. We don’t have to...

Spinning Our Wheels

Occasionally, something happens that propels us into a frenzy of worry. We think about the issue over and over until we’re so worked up that it’s difficult to get off the mental merry-go-round and back into a healthy frame of mind. Fortunately, there are...

Unwinding Anxiety

When stressful events replay in your mind, don’t try to think your way out of it. Unwind your emotions by sitting quietly for a moment and feeling the sensations in your body. When you go within and acknowledge your feelings, the self-created emotional knot of...

Of Human Bondage

Bondage is defined as servitude or oppression, usually concerning physical conditions. But there’s a kind of self-inflicted slavery that’s far more insidious and cruel. It constrains our emotional freedom, limits our inner peace and prevents us from being...

Inaccurate Perception

What we see is so distorted by our conditioning that we often misread situations and create problems that don’t actually exist. Science now informs us that even our behavior can be inherited through DNA. Emotional problems that plagued our ancestors might fill...