YOGA

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

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A Meditation To Reduce Fear and Anxiety

A Meditation To Reduce Fear and Anxiety

We often devote enormous amounts of energy to suppressing our feelings of anxiety, worry and fear.

Unfotunately, this only makes our fears worse! We often push these uncomfortable emotions to the dark corners of our minds, or hide it in areas of our body. Often we make ourselves overly busy to avoid having to sit with anxiety or uncertainty. However, fear thrives in the darkness of ignorance, so although these strategies may work in the short term, when we bury our negative feelings, they only tend to grow bigger. Alternatively, when we become attentive to ourselves, and shine the light of awareness on our feelings of fear, we can observe how it immediately effects us, and how it also changes. With a little time and steady practice we can watch our worries dissolve and disappear altogether.

Have you ever wondered what might happen if you took the time to consciously explore your fears and anxiety?
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