“Live like you’re going to die tomorrow and learn as if you’re going to live forever. “
Mahatma Gandhi
- When something important is about to happen (or we want it to happen).
- Anxiety usually occurs and we have in our hands what will make it bigger or smaller.
How to stop this feeling or reaction? With positive thoughts! Don’t let anxiety affect your daily life. Keep enjoying your daily life and, above all, the present, after all, as its name suggests, it is a gift.
If we could have a machine to take us to tomorrow, how many nerves would we be saved!That’s true, but it’s also true that we wouldn’t benefit from anything, of course, because travel is as important as the moment. reach the goal.
Imagine any goal (getting married, graduating, having a child) as the destination we’ve chosen for our vacation. But, when we get on the chosen means of transport to get there (ask us to get married, start studying, get pregnant), we already want to set foot in the sand, on the mountain or wherever we are. decided to go.
What about the plane, train or car? We want this to happen as quickly as possible (especially if it’s too long), but traveling is also part of the holiday.
Therefore, the organization of the festival, the studies to pass the exams, the growth of the child in the belly, are beautiful moments that we must take advantage of, because they will not happen in the same way. Of course, we can re-marry, study something else or have a second child, but it won’t be the same.
If we were to learn to control anxiety, all trips would be amazing and very well taken advantage of, when we are anxious and nervous it is because we have an excess of desire for the future, because we think that today’s present is not important, it is only one way to reach that other destination.
In fact, happiness disappears from our lives when we constantly place it in front of our present.
I’ll be happy when I get married, when I graduate, when the baby is born, why not be happy now, while we organize the guest list, read an article or do an ultrasound?Anxiety is the unconscious mechanism we have to prevent something that threatens us.
We believe that what is happening today is not what we are looking for and that only what happens tomorrow, however, an excess of anxiety can progress to a chronic disease, or rather, we can be anxious all the time, for anything. .
Biting your nails, smoking more, ending up with food in the fridge, not being able to sleep, having trouble concentrating on work or studying, not paying attention to everything they tell us, having hair loss, dark circles, tachycardias?all are symptoms of an anxiety problem.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that by 2020, anxiety, depression and stress will be three critical factors in understanding how diseases develop. Above them, just the heart rate level and the risk of cardiovascular problems. But look, much of the latter will also appear in these three states.
Remember that they are not negative in themselves, the problem is when they are very intense or when they stay.
Doctors say that any anxiety is not bad, but we need to know how to regulate the dosage, a low level of anxiety, instead, it is also negative for our lives, because it does not allow us to focus on what we do. , we have no vision for the future, we can’t plan anything, we have no goal, etc.
So how do we manage anxiety levels?
First, understand that the future will come sooner or later; second, remember that what we are doing today helps us to be there tomorrow; the third aspect is related to the use of what every day has to offer us.
Remember that nothing and no one can give you back lost time, what’s the point of thinking about tomorrow if you still can’t enjoy today?