So today's question is,
How do you deal with nervousness and anxiety on the spiritual path?
First of all,
I see nervousness as a blessing.
Let's say you're getting nervous before an event or before a presentation.
You feel this energy of anxiety welling up in your heart.
It starts to overrun your mind.
You start getting confused and feeling inadequate to the task.
And maybe a little crazy and out of your mind.
And you think,
I can't do this.
The energy is building so much in your body.
It's making you freak out.
Some people cry,
Wail and sob and freak out.
Some people just internalize it and start shaking.
What is this energy?
It's an intuition of moving into a space of heightened powers.
Simply put,
It's the energy to get the job done.
It's the inflow of energy that you'll need to operate on the higher level that's necessary for you.
You might feel like you're in a mildly psychedelic state where reality starts vibrating at a different frequency.
And that's exactly what's happening.
You're up leveling.
And the former person who you were two or three minutes ago before this nervousness set in was incapable of stepping into that space of power.
You've been blessed.
You've been anointed with divine power to be able to go in there and do what needs to be done.
To speak on a higher level,
To participate more fully,
To ride the wave of that event horizon that's coming in like waves in the ocean.
You start rising higher and higher to these vertiginous heights.
You think I can't perform up here.
But actually what's happening is you're being given the means and the ability to perform at that level.
It's almost like the mother whose baby gets pinned under a car and the mother suddenly gets this massive burst of adrenaline that gives her unseen powers to be able to lift up this car and pull her baby out.
Something she never could have done with her normal strength.
She was gifted the divine ability to step up in the moment.
So we need to stop looking at nervousness as some fault or deficit that makes you weak.
It's actually the opposite.
It's what is most divinely radiant inside of you coming out into its fullest expression.
Anxiety is a heart massage.
It's a subtle long-term tuning up of your spiritual frequency.
It will tell you the people that you should be around and shouldn't be around.
It'll tell you what you should and shouldn't be doing.
It will guide you into the realms where you will be able to perform and contribute most and be most in your Dharma.
Again,
It's a cosmic energy,
A low-level,
Often present energy,
Which is tuning your chakras,
Tuning your system up to a higher frequency of light.
Meditation helps to corral and synergize these energies.
It's not a virtue to feel uncomfortable.
It's a virtue to recognize the beauty and importance of whatever is happening in the moment.
And when you do that,
Energies like anxiety and nervousness will be allowed to do their work in you and you will emerge as a higher spiritual being.
So rather than believing the misunderstanding that what's happening in your body needs to be solved with prescriptions,
Do a little interior research.
Rest with these energies.
Let them do their work in you.
Take them into your meditations.
Take them into your times of prayer and silence and investigate.
You may find that they're actually your secret ally and you're doing just fine.
