“When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy” – Psalm 94:19
If you look closely into what anxiety is, you’ll notice it’s a future oriented thought. The possibility of something happening in the future based on present perception. Rarely, does our attention go to the source of our perception. Is the perception total or filtered? For most, the perception is filtered and distorted. For example, we may feel threatened in a situation that is non-threatening. We may look at a person and based on their appearance or the way they communicate, we may perceive them as unsafe. The radiant blue sky appears gray because the mind is dull.
The reason I call such a perception distortion is because it arises from a conceptual thought or “me.” Me is the fragmented thinking mind (I am this and that) that filters and changes What-Is into What-Should-Or-Should-Not-Be. So the “me” is not looking at the fact. Anxiety is a consequence of “me” seeing What-Is from the lens of a future fear. Therefore, it modifies facts (or What-Is happening now) for self-protection. Understanding the root of this fragmentation and going to its source dissolves anxiety. Because fragments are no longer a problem. For the consolidated mind there is no separation between the Consciousness and its content – the “me” is anxiety, therefore, there is no one to do anything about it.
With love,
Jagjot
