The book was in its final combing for stray comma’s, misspelled words (red vs read, effect vs affect) and unsightly gaps. In the process, I’d gained five pounds—a situation sought by few women in our culture. I was anxious, but I was also excited and happy—and all three emotions were inexorably intertwined. What would it have been like to just be excited and happy, without the edge of anxiety?
I felt happy and excited when I picked up the book from the printer (shout out to Dale Rand’s), but not before. That’s the deal with ‘good’ anxiety: it juices a little edge to get the work done. There’s a blithe joy to happy and excited that is like helium filled balloons rising into a bright blue sky. Yay! Who cares about comma’s? Well, look at the title of the wonderful book “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” (a panda bear on the cover) to enjoy radically altered meaning created by one paltry comma!
Good anxiety zings us when needed. It gets our attention, spices things up and/or gets us out of trouble. Then, ideally, it goes away: bye-bye! However too many of us exist in a trough of ongoing anxiety, which is exhausting. Energy that could fuel the accomplishment important things (say, a nap) gets vaporized by ongoing anxiety. Free up your energy by working with the visualizations, activities and body cues of Anxiety Soothers. This is your precious life: may you have it!
I felt happy and excited when I picked up the book from the printer (shout out to Dale Rand’s), but not before. That’s the deal with ‘good’ anxiety: it juices a little edge to get the work done. There’s a blithe joy to happy and excited that is like helium filled balloons rising into a bright blue sky. Yay! Who cares about comma’s? Well, look at the title of the wonderful book “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” (a panda bear on the cover) to enjoy radically altered meaning created by one paltry comma!
Good anxiety zings us when needed. It gets our attention, spices things up and/or gets us out of trouble. Then, ideally, it goes away: bye-bye! However too many of us exist in a trough of ongoing anxiety, which is exhausting. Energy that could fuel the accomplishment important things (say, a nap) gets vaporized by ongoing anxiety. Free up your energy by working with the visualizations, activities and body cues of Anxiety Soothers. This is your precious life: may you have it!
