Anxiety is a monster that feeds on our adrenaline, while adrenaline is a substance that our body releases when it feels there is a danger in the environment and wants to prepare us for protection.
It can be awakened when we see a lion or a snake, which is highly unlikely in the world in which we live today and therefore seems inadequate; however, adrenaline is also released when we suddenly slide down the stairs or when the oil splashes. from the pan while we prepare dinner.
- At this point our adrenaline goes off and helps us hold on to the railing or get away from the stove where we fry an egg.
- That is.
- Our adrenaline sets us in motion and helps us act on time.
- In the face of a fatal result.
- Happens.
However, just as the adrenaline is released, the anxious monster wakes from its lethargy when it smells its food, at first it is also part of that protective instinct, helping us to grab ourselves from the handrail and try to maintain balance before falling. stairs.
However, although a slip down the stairs is a daily situation, the anxious monster may wake up and not be able to fall asleep again, then stay inside us feeding on the adrenaline we release, while we still feel the heart. rhythm and fear in our bodies.
As long as the monster continues to have adrenaline to feed, we will feel it in us, however, once we are not in a dangerous situation, the monster, knowing that his adrenaline reserves are running low, will hibernate for lack of food.
It turns out that sometimes we’re so scared of the anxiety monster that we struggle to get it out of our body, we scream saying we don’t want it, we don’t accept it, and it shouldn’t be inside of us.
This psychological battle causes our body to release another dose of adrenaline, but this time there is no real danger to justify it, but a monster that wants to eat more and more.
Then, thanks to excess adrenaline, the anxious monster becomes huge and extremely aggressive, threatening, shouts and says that it will paralyze our hearts, that it will dry our throats or that it will devour our brains.
He can’t do that, but he tells us louder and louder, because he knows that this is how we listen better and manages to get more emotional food, more adrenaline, so he imbues our day-to-day life with an insatiable hunger that he knows that, as subjects, we will calm down if he becomes known.
Now, if we don’t listen to him and accept his cries as normal, we’ll stop paying attention to him and he won’t get adrenaline from our body, so in the end the anxious monster will have no choice but to go back to sleep. calm and thin.
The anxious monster can only frighten our body. As we see, this represents a natural way to act when faced with something that our body or mind considers an immediate danger.
However, when it catches our attention, he becomes discouraged and encouraged, for he understands that we are the ones who complain about him and invite him to act and grow without control.
It is a simple and normal mechanism that we can all understand, now, whether this monster is already huge, or if in the future it does not want to fall asleep again, we must remember that it is in our hands to make it smaller and more irrelevant, if we choose to accept that its presence will depend on whether we open up or simply experience those sensations that are natural.
Source of bibliographic interest: Understand and manage your anxiety of José Antonio García Noguera and Javier García Urea (free translation).