Fear and anxiety have accompanied us since the beginning of time. They kept our predecessors alive and protected them from danger. Anxiety is both good and bad. Yes, it is good, because it draws our attention to possible dangers, helps us to be vigilant, not to venture beyond our powers. And yes, it is bad, when it is exaggerated, when it blocks our actions and overwhelms our mind with dark thoughts and worries. Pathological anxiety is like getting lost in a maze of possibilities, like a disorientation that doesn't allow us to choose the right path... we have so many intersections in front of us... where should we go instead? And the thoughts... all those thoughts that come along with it... and speak to us... and dictate to us... and impose on us... and again, helpless... we trust them... and we allow it to torment us. But we can stop them. We can stop the whole avalanche of thoughts and suffering if we start looking at reality from another perspective. If we manage to realize that anxiety is nothing more than a passenger guest that will stay with us for a visit only as long as we allow it. We can heal ourselves if we understand what anxiety is and when it becomes a disorder, if we analyze it and break it down into pieces..., into thoughts..., into emotions, into actions. And if we take them all and sift them carefully through the sieve of our rationality, we will remove the impurities and we will remain new, clean, decent, freed from a weight that did not even belong to us.
ALINA CHIRACU - Coordinator
Fear and anxiety have accompanied us since the beginning of time. They kept our predecessors alive and protected them from danger. Anxiety is both good and bad. Yes, it is good, because it draws our attention to possible dangers, helps us to be vigilant, not to venture beyond our powers. And yes, it is bad, when it is exaggerated, when it blocks our actions and overwhelms our mind with dark thoughts and worries. Pathological anxiety is like getting lost in a maze of possibilities, like a disorientation that doesn't allow us to choose the right path... we have so many intersections in front of us... where should we go instead? And the thoughts... all those thoughts that come along with it... and speak to us... and dictate to us... and impose on us... and again, helpless... we trust them... and we allow it to torment us. But we can stop them. We can stop the whole avalanche of thoughts and suffering if we start looking at reality from another perspective. If we manage to realize that anxiety is nothing more than a passenger guest that will stay with us for a visit only as long as we allow it. We can heal ourselves if we understand what anxiety is and when it becomes a disorder, if we analyze it and break it down into pieces..., into thoughts..., into emotions, into actions. And if we take them all and sift them carefully through the sieve of our rationality, we will remove the impurities and we will remain new, clean, decent, freed from a weight that did not even belong to us.