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Waking up anxiety

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sea storm:
Waking up in the morning with high anxiety is really awful. My thought go out to you and I am sooooo sorry that is happening.
I felt that way for years and tried to ration my mind out of it. The thoughts that come first thing like that are like little thunderbolts and are so disturbing.

I don't have that as much now and I have a few things I do to lesson the anxiety of these feelings.I eat or drink immediately to get my blood sugar up.
I tap to interrupt the hard wired neural pathway that was imprinted due to trauma
I tell myself they are just thoughts and visualize them bouncing off my brain.
I tell myself these are usually cruel and self distructive beliefs about myself that are harmful to me
I tell myself to just get through today and not worry worry worry about the future. Just one step at a time.
I replace the mantra of the inner critic with positive affirmations

Quite quickly the anxiety dissipates.

I used to think feeling that way was a punishment for being bad or a failure in some way. But it is not.
Not having money has little to do with being good or good enough.  There was a powerful movement that said that you manifest what you put out and what you deserve. This was all very nice when the economy was thriving but if one takes personal responsibility for a serious downturn in the economy ..... well they really can't personalize the global economy.

Chances of moving out of one's economic or educational box are greatly reduced these days. I listened to a lecture from Harvard about the place of women in society and it was mind boggling how difficult it is for a woman to "get ahead". Like trying to swim in a sea of thick oatmeal.

Much love,

Sea storm

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