The worst thing about regular anxiety states is that unless you changed some of your core beliefs about the world, acquired in the past, you will go on being anxious. The events happening to you and how you interpret those events are two different things. In Indian philosophy these are called karma and guna, respectively. You may not have too much choice about karma but you do have a choice on choosing your guna, your mental state, including your beliefs about the world, your worldview.
It's not automatic that pain (karma) is transformed into suffering (guna). It might be that our belief is that pain is suffering, but if you talk to people who have mastered themselves such as yogis for instance, you can see that they are able to endure much more pain than an average person, without suffering.
The reason this is relevant for anxiety is that you can't simply brush off an anxious person's fears about the future as 'unlikely to happen', 'everything will be alright' etc, because in fact painful things will in fact occur and at the end of it all, the ultimate tragedy of disease and death for us and all of our loved ones awaits us.
But you can change how you see this pain and this can decrease your anxiety, by accepting it. Yes, bad things will happen to me in the future, and no, I can't guarantee that it will not be tomorrow. Accepting future pain is the first step towards making that pain less painful.
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@dorsuwa -- Thank you, glad you liked it.
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yes, best wishes sir we may meet in the next post: 👏👏👏
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@aemkar agree with @dorsuwa by the way we share new things of course we will all meet with other community
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yes sir😀
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Articles that fit my needs, nice I like poetry, best wishes sir
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In real life good and bad always exist, but we remain in this fortitude is called the trials of life. who can be patient and sincere to receive every trial ..! from aemkar to @csbegu
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I like to say that the difference between your expectations and experience = your emotions. And thus, if you have high expectations and those expectations aren't met through the reality of the experience, then you'll likely experience an uncomfortable emotion. Likewise, if you fully accept where your at, limit your expectations, and embrace the experience - the emotions you experience may be incredibly different in nature.
But in the end, as you said, acceptance is the first step. It's truly a powerful way to be.
Thanks for sharing @csbegu. I'd love to hear your thoughts about my recent post: These Three Words Will Instantly Change How You Perceive Your Life
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Great reply, @axios. In indian philosophy emotion stems from the ananda feature of the soul (the three features are sat = awareness, chit = knowledge and ananda = happiness, pleasure, bliss). First there is the uncaused, ever-existing thirst for ever expanding happiness (ananda). Based on this, sub-desires emerge and plans to fulfill them -- in the sense that all desire is a form of looking for happiness. And based on what happens next with the fulfillment of those desires (or the perspective of fulfillment/unfulfillment) emotions arise.
So, yes, based on what purposes (desires) you have, there are different emotions arising from that. Anxiety appears when our desires look like they won't be fulfilled. When that is absolutely confirmed (there's nothing to be done anymore) anxiety disappears and anger appears in some people, or detachment appears in other people.
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Interesting! I have not studied this indian philosophy but it's intriguing to see how it relates to my own studies. Makes sense to me!
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One of the people that have introduced me to the depths of Indian philosophy is Indian thinker Ashish Dalela. Here are his posts in the Psychology category on his blog. Very deep and thought-provoking stuff:
https://www.ashishdalela.com/category/psychology/
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