I’ve mentioned many times recently in these blogs that I think that anxiety sometimes gets a bad name nowadays.
I get that it’s not always something that we want to feel and that we may feel it more frequently and to greater depth than we’d like.
But that doesn’t mean it’s automatically a bad thing.
It can be seen as “the emotion of growth”.
It can show that we’re challenging ourselves, trying to progress and moving outside of our comfort zone.
It’s also worth considering that anxiety is somewhat unavoidable.
And that by trying to avoid it, we just create more of it later on.
Avoiding the anxiety of going somewhere to exercise can lead to the greater anxiety produced by a body that we don’t like the look and feel of as much.
Avoiding things that have a positive impact on our mental health can only increase anxiety downstream.
Avoiding the anxiety of difficult conversations with our partner creates the anxiety that comes from a worsening (or ending) relationship.
Avoiding the anxiety created by certain aspects of our work can lead to greater anxiety created by a career that’s not going where we’d like it to be, and by not generating the revenue that we’d like to fund the life we want to live.
It’s worth considering that when we feel anxiety coming for us…………
It might make sense to let it catch us.
If we run from it……….
It’ll keep coming for us.
And when it does get to us, it’s probably gonna hit us even harder.
Much love,
Jon ‘me if you can’ Hall
P.S. If just going somewhere where they give you some exercises to do and some equipment to do it on hasn’t worked for you, then that’s cool, it hasn’t for the vast majority. Showing someone exercise is the easy bit of what I do. Helping you make changes to your already busy and challenging lives is the skill I have. It’s www.myrise.co.uk/apply when you’re ready for that help to make those changes!
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