We are unlike any other creatures on this planet. We are able to use our minds to become the fullest expansions of ourselves, and we can continually strive to have more and to do more. The mind is a wonderful tool, unless it turns against us.
The ability to remember the past and to imagine the future can be useful and productive or harmful and limiting. We can worry so much about things that haven’t happened, and likely will never happen, that we become paralyzed with fear. Or we can evoke memories that upset us, feeling the pain as though something that happened many years ago is happening right now.
The physiological reactions are real. When the mind becomes panicked, the body responds as though the threat is real. Anxiety is a lower level of panic attack, a chronic way of living that is neither comfortable nor healthy. But for those who deal with any of these mental conditions, the struggle is real.
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