I don’t think anyone likes anxiety.

No one ever walked down the street and thought to himself or herself, “Man, I wish I was more anxious today.” Yet this is something we experience readily frequently.

Anxiety can be overwhelming sometimes. Can’t eat. Can’t sleep. Can’t even think straight. This can seem like the ultimate roadblock to our social lives.

This can be having a serious talk with your boss at work, talking to someone new, or walking into a supermarket. Anxiety gives no notices. It just strikes hard and fast.

The root of anxiety comes from uncertainty. Not really sure what is going to happen. Usually only when negative consequences, because we don’t get anxious over free pizza. [Unless we have to talk to the pizza guy.]

On a surface level we are afraid of rejection; however, this actually goes much deeper into our past if our anxiety seems erratic. Why? Because an almost reflexive anxiety tells us that it is deep rooted in our subconscious.

From our childhood growing up, we learn all about our relationships and emotions from our parents through their actions. A good amount of our uncontrollable anxiety can usually be pointed back to a moment in our childhood where we experienced uncertainty.

How Can We Cure Our Anxiety?

The most effective way would be finding a good therapist to walk you through your emotional past. Having a proper guide through your anxiety can accelerate your improvement by leaps.

In any case where you are unable to get a therapist, you might have to work to face the fears yourself. I encourage you to take small steps towards facing your past, because anxiety is a vicious pit.

Try this exercise -

Try to remember back to your childhood as early as you can. Find the memory that caused you to feel anxious.

Write down the reason why you felt anxious at that moment.

Write down what that younger you would have wanted to hear in order to calm down his/her anxiety.

Tell that comment to yourself five times.