Panic

Panic

I will work with my feelings of panic today. Rather than swing into emotional action by shutting the feeling down or by projecting my own panicky feeling onto someone else, I will first identify it as a feeling within me. When I project the feeling, I do not experience it. Then I do to another person what I am doing to myself. I distance myself from the emotions that make me uncomfortable in order to manage my anxiety. Why not try something different? When I experience the feeling of panic that makes me want to run from or shut off a particular emotion, rather than try to get rid of the feeling, I can allow myself to be with it, to explore it, to look at it from a variety of angles. In this way I can use my emotional problems for spiritual growth. I have the strength to sit with and move through my panicky feelings. In this way, my emotions offer me an opportunity to grow and become intimate with my inner self.

I can own and experience a panicky feeling.

Be happy alchemy of mind.
They turn to pleasure all they find.
Matthew Green