Because I have so many friends across the globe, by the time the New Year rolled into my neck of the woods, it already felt keenly and ostentatiously celebrated just about everywhere else… so I was in bed when the pot-clanging and fireworks went off around my abode last night. Not asleep, mind you–just in bed–because I knew that if I tried to get to sleep before all hell broke loose, I’d be jarred awake by it when it finally happened. So I waited.
And while I waited I read another book. It’s a good’un, called The Fear and Anxiety Solution, written by an MD. Not being a particularly fearful or anxious person these days (although in days past, I sure was!), I wasn’t sure the book would be of much benefit to me, but I wanted to read it to see if I could recommend it to others I know who are more fear-and-anxiety-based than I am. So I was surprised and pleased to discover that the book is helpful to anyone with even the slightest degree of what may appear to him or her to be baseless fear or anxiety.
If you’ve ever asked yourself any of the following questions…
“Why do I always have to talk myself into doing stuff I know I should be doing?”
“Why won’t my mind shut off at night so I can fall asleep peacefully?
“Why do I feel driven, even on my days off and during my vacation, to accomplish something significant?”
“Why do the people I know and interact with frequently seem so oblivious to my true feelings, needs or essence?”
…you will probably benefit from reading the book.
Most of what drives us, as it turns out, are our subconscious minds, most of which are still existing in an adolescent stage. As kids, we were sponges. We didn’t know whether the information we were getting from others was solid or saturated in stinky slime…we accepted it all as if it were gospel truth. If we were called names, belittled, marginalized or ignored, the pain of all that imprinted in our subconscious and even in our tissues and muscles. As adults, unless we compassionately and completely address the crap we accepted, we still are saddled with it. So whenever we encounter the world, we “see” it from the paradigm of a young, inexperienced, dependent child. Our subconscious doesn’t recognize that we now have power that we didn’t have as children: the power to delete, correct and overwrite the misleading and mistaken impressions that were embedded in our psyches. Our subconscious needs help “growing up” before it will start to serve up what we need to show up in our own lives as the movers and shakers that we can be these days.
The best part of the book is that it’s easy to understand and there are actual exercises you can do to help you move through the process of reeducating and reintegrating your subconscious so it serves you instead of sabotaging you. I’m enjoying the journey immensely and look forward to recommending the book to others who can benefit–which seems to be at least half of the people I know, now that I think about it!
I highly recommend, without reservation, The Fear and Anxiety Solution.
