Channeling The Energy of Anxiety into Joy and Inspiration

An important thing about anxiety is that, besides protecting us from dangers, it helps us do the work! If we can’t take action based on knowing, then anxiety will step in to help us. What a fantastic friend!

Seeing this benefit will help motivate us to take action based on seeing: we know what we should do and just do it. Once we can take action not based on emotions but seeing, not only our friend anxiety will less visit us but also a greater intelligence is activated… 

This “strategy” can be applied to any other things, internal and external, you don’t like. Fighting with/resisting them, you will surely get more of them. It’s because what the consciousness “touches” manifests into reality. 

Instead, try to see the good side of their presence in your life at that moment or ask “how can I use them to benefit my life and others’?”, then you will have both. (Hope that you know what both are). 

Not going against what you don’t like will help you focus on the right things. Sometimes we failed or made terrible mistakes not because of our ability but because of a wrong focus due to emotional triggers (likes/dislikes, hate/love). 

Carl Jung said, “You always become the thing you fight the most.”

 Nothing is inherently good or bad. If you can make good use of things appearing in your life, all become good.

You will know this side when your mind doesn’t run around in despair due to the appearance of the bad. The good is already there hidden.

So never let your mind be disturbed by anything that appears to be bad.

Let it be grounded in the stability of Beingness, the Presence, or the Tao, the Great Mother. And you are protected by Existence, by its infinite energy and supreme intelligence.

“She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger.” (Tao Te Ching)

 Hold on to the Center!

So, whenever seeing what you don’t like, use it to remind yourself about a greater benefit/ potential or to take action immediately on what you normally don’t want to take. This shift of focus also channels the uncomfortable energy into joy and inspiration. 

(Thank you, my nephew Phan Nguyen, a young leader, for inspiring me to write this article.)