When Anxiety Makes Everything Too Much

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We recently posted this question on our Facebook page: Are you suffering with anxiety? Please share your fear here and we'll address your concerns in an upcoming slayer session.

Over the next few weeks we will be trying to offer some self-help solutions to the anxiety questions we received in the comments.

Here's the first question we received: "When I feel anxious I feel like everything is too much to cope with and that I am failing to manage."

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Recommended Resources to help with this issue:

Letting Go: Meditation for Peace of Mind - download on iTunes here

The Anxiety Rescue Kit - tools for coping with overwhelm and anxiety

learning to trust the process

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I'm learning to trust the process...

For most of this lifetime I've tried to control my outcomes. I liked being the woman who made things happen. Not anymore. What I've noticed is that the more I try to push my agenda, the more anxious and agitated I become. Trying to manage every little thing is exhausting.

This year I've declared that I will do my best to trust the process of my personal and professional unfolding.

I define trusting the process by setting an intention and moving in the direction of what I wish to experience without attachment to the outcome. Admittedly, as a recovering type a perfectionist, this is something I have to recalibrate on a daily basis. The awareness of the controlling behavior I wish to change makes my old patterns easier to break.

• Where are you trying to push for an outcome?
• How is that working our for you?
• What might happen if you set your intention and then let it unfold?
• Where in your life can you make more time to trust and surrender?

How You Can Trust The Process

• Set your intention
• Make incremental action
• Celebrate each step
• Ask for support
• Be grateful for every bit of the process
• Marvel in your ability to trust and surrender
• Do your best to remain unattached to the outcome

Loosen the reigns on your life. Take a deep breath and do your best to trust the process.

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