Anxiety is familiar to everyone. You start a new job or have a frank conversation with family, your neighbor is in a bad mood when you meet them, or you are late for an event.
And sometimes, even seemingly for no reason at all, you feel a nagging anxiety in the background, as if something bad is about to happen or, perhaps, has already happened without your knowledge.
How much energy you lose trying to cope with anxiety. And how many methods you have already tried in vain attempts to break free from the shackles of worry.
Learn how to prevent anxious thoughts and find peace. When the “disturber” of your inner world is recognized, it is much easier to avoid it, and therefore easier to remain in calm and silence.
I bring to your attention this simple algorithm that will help eliminate anxiety and bring more harmony into your life.
How to find peace and eliminate anxiety
1. Discover peace and silence
Throughout the day, notice moments when you perceive peace and silence.
You are cooking and hear birds singing outside the window. You are walking down the street and feel the touch of the sun’s warmth. Note each such experience, or better yet, write it down.
Start a notebook titled “Moments of Silence and Peace” and make entries every day. Notice — there will be more such moments because you have come to love them and paid them attention.
Do not forget — the space of serenity is available to you around the clock. Discover it as often as possible.
Go through the “Stone of Life” meditation, which will help you anchor yourself in a new reality with full engagement in life.
2. Recognize the “disturber”
Imagine you are doing something and simultaneously reflecting on life. It doesn’t matter if it’s positive or negative — there is noise in your head.
Suddenly, thoughts disappear, you feel clarity and simply enjoy what you are doing. And then you start thinking and worrying again.
Your habit of thinking incessantly is the main “disturber” of peace. The space of silence does not leave, but is overshadowed by an uncontrolled stream of reasoning.
Such clouding of consciousness happens out of habit. Learn to recognize such eclipses. Bring in awareness.
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3. Help yourself with questions
You know that the disturbers of peace of mind are thoughts. Guard your inner silence from obsessive ruminations. Be vigilant.
From time to time, ask yourself: Where am I now? What is happening around me? What is happening with my body? What am I thinking about? How long have I been thinking? Am I breathing? Am I in this moment?
Know that peace is here, and return to it immediately as soon as you catch yourself stuck in thoughts.
Help yourself with mindfulness. Make your own list of questions that bring you out of being immersed in thoughts.
Use any of the practices of Archangel Michael’s protection to find peace and balance in a world of opposites.
4. Rise above thoughts
Thoughts will try to pull you back. The inner voice will say:
- “You have so many problems, what enjoyment, find a way out! Think!”
- “Why have you stopped? Solve the problem — think, think, think!”
- “There’s no time for this now! You’ll rest on vacation! Think about what to do!”
Immediately turn to your breath. Feel how the inhale transitions into the exhale, the exhale into the inhale… Naturally, easily, without control. Everything is fine. Life is here. The sky is in place. The earth is in place. The body is in place.
Transcend the habit of obsessive thinking through mindfulness and breathing.
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5. Stay in harmony
Life throws challenges at you, and you want to respond — earn more money, travel to more countries, build more joyful relationships. This is natural. And it is equally natural that none of this is a condition for your peace.
Quite the opposite! The pursuit of all this is what causes anxiety.
Do not give in to thoughts that lead you into a distant future where everything is bad, or conversely, where you have everything you dreamed of, and only then, only now, can you feel peace. This is not true. The joy of being is always with you.
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