¶ Facing Unexpected Anxiety
Welcome to Let it Be Easy with Susie Moore . Recently , for a couple of days , I felt horribly anxious , not entirely out of the blue . I had some stuff that happened a couple of weeks before that , but it was unusual . It was unlike me . Business is going well , my marriage is good , my friends are great , health is good .
I kept thinking why do I feel this way ? Why do I feel this way , Trying to pin it on something , explain it away and remove it quickly . And then I reminded myself that whatever we resist persists , whatever it is that we're trying to get rid of , that we don't want , that we're thinking I want you to go away , me alone ,
¶ Whatever We Resist Persists
leave me alone . It just sticks to us like velcro . So I think to myself what if I just allow this feeling of anxiety ? I don't know when it's going to be over , I don't know exactly how I'm going to feel later today . Tomorrow I could feel this way , tomorrow I could feel a different way . But wise , that wise part of me does know that all things pass .
Good things , less good things , it's all temporary . And so I thought to myself in that moment , when I was having this reckoning , you know , part of me thought oh my gosh , a glass of wine might fix this , or maybe I don't know .
Maybe I should buy something online that I wanted , maybe , maybe , maybe I know we chase those cheap little things that can feel like pleasure , that can feel like peace , but they're not . They're a very cheap substitute .
¶ Chase Clarity Not Happiness
What I told myself , what I reminded myself of in that moment , was , of course , yes , this feeling , this emotion , this place where I am right now , it's temporary . I need to . Instead of chasing happiness , instead of chasing a feeling of lightness , of feeling better , of joy . It felt too out of reach .
I thought to myself , what I can chase instead in this moment is thinking clearly , thinking clearly . My friends , we have to help ourselves , because sometimes another person can't soothe us . Sometimes the external things that we can do to maybe feel a bit better , they're not the right action , and we know it .
So , instead of chasing feeling good , instead of chasing cheap happiness , what if , in the moments where we feel low , low mood maybe it's anxiety , like I was experiencing you say instead , instead of chasing a high , I'm just going to chase , thinking clearly , knowing that this will pass , knowing this is temporary , knowing that at some point in the future maybe it's
tomorrow , maybe it's in a week , I am going to feel better . When we do that , we drop resistance . When we do that , we're not in this place , of which our anxiety will have us believe this is going to last forever . This is just how it is . Now I need to start worrying about X , x , y Z , x , z , x , x , y Z .
It's how it feels in our brain sometimes , am I right ? And then I took a fantastic piece of advice from the one and only Martha Beck , who's been on the podcast
¶ Get Into Your Hands
now a couple of times . Definitely check out her interviews . She says when you're feeling anxious , get out of your head and get into your hands . It's the last thing we want to do , because I know when I feel anxious , the last thing I want to do is even pick up a self-help book or watch a YouTube video that I know will uplift me .
But I can go to the kitchen and rearrange a few things . I can maybe look in my makeup bag and clear out a couple of old items . I can look in my closet and even just passively , slowly , not with any real intention or fervor , start organizing . Put more similar colors together . Just do something that takes you out of the tyranny of your mind .
My friends , when we don't feel good , helping ourselves is the only thing that works . Yes , we can seek support from others , and we must in certain cases , but what if it's us ? I say often we are our own safety net and we don't need to feel good in order to have a good life .
Life is full of the entire spectrum of emotions and there is a place for each of them .
And the next time that maybe you don't feel like yourself , you don't feel so good for a reason that you don't even understand , instead of chasing feeling good now , can you just chase thinking clearly , the clarity of mind that lets you know that this too is temporary , until tomorrow , my friends , so much love and ease .
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