Dropping Fear and/or Anxiety

Five ways to drop fear and/or anxiety:

1) Sing: Singing stimulates the heart chakra as well as the throat chakra. Fear and anxiety are often a symptom of having too much inside. Singing lets it out. By stimulating the heart chakra you stimulate the compassion, tranquility, neutrality and love - fear and anxiety can't stand up to them.

2) Dance: Fear and anxiety are also a symptom of something being stuck. By dancing (or indulging in other sports/exercise) you unstick it all. The endorphins get going, which give you a healthy sense of well-being and you feel on top of the world instead of dragged down by it.

3) Play with puppies or children: Children and animals have an uncanny way of being completely present. When you let go enough to be present with them, they will fall all over you and you can have a blast romping, giggling, laughing, wrestling, and playing with them. Fear and anxiety have nothing on kids or puppies!

4) Do something different: Change something you do - drive a different way to work, drink tea instead of coffee, do something you don't usually do. Fear and anxiety are a symptom that your life is freakishly predictable and/or that there is some remnant of belief that you can 'control' life. Doing something different gives you different smells, tastes, sensations to experience; they remind you that what you know of life is limited and that there is so much more there for the checking out.

5) Get with friends: Do whatever you can to get with friends. Have a dinner, invite people over to play old folk songs around the piano, go for a walk on the beach with a friend, chat on Skype for hours - relate, touch someone's heart. Fear and anxiety are a symptom that you feel too alone. Being with friends is a way to pull things out from inside you, lay them on the table and investigate whether you really need to have them, and with friends is a safe and trustworthy place for such a process.

Fear and/or anxiety are naturally occurring phenomena. They are instincts that are there for a good reason. They are a way for your instincts to tell us that action is needed and it is up to you to respond. How will you choose to respond?



Blessings.
- Darshan





© 2010 Darshan F Jessop