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How To Stop Being Perpetually Anxious
Most fears are ego-constructed dreams.
Think back to the times you’ve been fearful. How often did those fears transpire into “right-now” reality?
The fear of losing your job. The fear of death. Of injury.
The statistics aren’t in your favor. Anxieties are born from your brain, your ego.
“The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger,” writes Eckhart Tolle in his book, The Power of Now.
Psychological fear is always something that might happen, not “something that is happening now.”
The anxiety gap.
The gap occurs when you are here while your mind is in the future.
We’re all guilty of this. We chase future goals, or stress over future fears, at the expense of today.
Operating outside the present creates a constant pressure of anxiety. It never subsides.
The tension is always just under the surface of your skull.
You can always cope and deal with the present moment, but you cannot cope with the future.
