How to Relax When You Suffer From Chronic Anxiety and Stress

April 25th, 2019

By Aletheia Luna

Guest writer for Wake Up World

We no longer know how to truly relax.

Our frantic, stuffed schedules and fast-paced lives make it difficult for us to wind down and simply be with ourselves.

We have mastered how to DO, but we know almost nothing about how to BE.

Even when we do find ourselves with nothing to do, we freak out. Our social conditioning has ingrained within us the belief that we have to be “productive members of society” no matter where we are or what we’re doing.

Productivity is the catchword of our century. There’s nothing innately wrong with productivity. But while we have physically and materially progressed immensely, we are internally impoverished and starving. Most people have made almost no internal progress whatsoever, leaving them feeling anxious, depressed, and more prone to addiction.

The truth is that it is very difficult for us to be quiet and still with ourselves. We can no longer sit in a room without reaching for our iPhone, checking our social media accounts or flicking on the TV. We have an obsessive, addictive need to fill all of our empty moments with searching, reading, buying, watching, and being entertained in some way.

With such racing minds, it’s no wonder that we struggle with pandemic levels of insomnia, hyperactivity, impulsiveness, stress-related illnesses, and anxiety disorders.

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