Living with rampant anxiety is not unlike being in ‘flight or fight’ mode all the time. The trouble comes when anxiety won’t switch off or gets heavily out of balance in specific situations. It prepares us for stressful situations and warns us of potential trouble, then it goes away. When it is useful to know yourself.Īnxiety, as an example, can be a good thing. This is when it is good to be observant about how you are coping. The trouble comes when one or two particular emotions get out of hand and won’t go away. These emotions, when kept in check, are a good thing. There are natural times to be happy or sad, relaxed and joyful or stressed and frustrated. How we react to something is generally a guide to its value. Life’s signpostsĮmotions are life’s signposts. They assumed that they would go on like they always did. They ignored the twinges and the late night aches. These people (myself included) didn’t see the writing on the wall. That their knee could no longer bend the way it did at twenty. In many cases the need for this has arisen because they just didn’t realise that they were aging. If you look at a lot of active people in their late thirties and early forties, many of them will have had some form of knee surgery. I guess I am saying what Dirty Harry said best. Those things that eat away at you slowly. Knowing those things that trigger you and send you downward. I am talking about the subtleties of your emotions. I’m not talking about how well you like your steak cooked or what your favourite sport is.
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