Hello,
My name's Ian Tucker.
Welcome.
In this short recording I would like to talk to you about something that you and I have in common.
In fact it's not just you and I who have this thing in common.
We share it with anyone who will ever be connected to this recording in the future.
We experience anxiety.
Just the mention of the word can start to bring up sensations in the body and it seems to be everywhere.
The word anxiety globally.
Riddled through society.
I'd like to take just a few minutes if I may to give you my take.
On anxiety.
I've known anxiety quite profoundly in my life in the past and at times now.
But I found a way through.
And it's something that I would like to share with you today.
If we think about anxiety and I'm talking personally here.
There seems to be a flatness,
A stuckness,
A melee around the thing itself.
Almost like I have no energy.
But right in the centre.
There is a buzzing.
There is an energy and I tend to feel it in my solar plexus when I'm anxious about something.
So let's just be with that.
I have this flatness,
This stuckness,
This can't move-ness.
And right in the centre.
There is an energy,
A spark,
A buzzing,
Whatever you want to call it.
And this is very common for most of us,
This feeling.
And the whole thing we tend to sum up as anxiety.
I am feeling anxiety.
But I'd like to ask you a question.
What if anxiety?
Isn't actually the enemy.
What if there is an antidote?
To anxiety.
The author Wayne Dyer kind of beautiful phrase.
He said,
When we change the way we look at things,
The things we look at change.
So does anxiety always have to mean the same thing?
I am stoked.
I feel helpless around this,
I'm out of control.
And as a result of that,
I'm feeling these sensations in my body.
Typically an unease,
A flatness,
A heaviness,
A weight.
Normally partnered right in the center with this energy,
This pulse.
So what about if anxiety and certainly that pulse in the centre isn't the enemy.
What about if it's simply a call to action?
Some part of you that simply wants you to be well.
Is recognizing this weight this stuckness,
This worry,
This darkness.
And that center point,
That spark,
Is saying Let's move through this.
Let's move away from this feeling of stuckness,
Of unease.
So I'd like you to consider.
That perhaps the antidote to anxiety is action.
The very opposite of what typically can make us feel like.
I don't want to face it.
I don't want to look in the direction of it.
But I've come to know in my life that what I push down tends to stick around.
What I push down tends to stick around.
And adversely I've come to know,
When I find the courage,
And it's normally quite close to the surface,
The courage,
When I find the courage to shine a gentle light on what it is that's worrying me,
It seems to lessen its grip.
Not as bad as I thought it was,
Or it looks different when I face it.
So there's a message there.
The stuckness of anxiety.
Isn't where it finishes.
That little pulse,
That energy,
That sense that you and I get.
Could simply be a call to action.
So let's look at what we could do.
When we start to look at this differently,
When we change the way we look at things,
The things we look at change.
We typically experience a bout of anxiety.
And right in the centre is the call to action.
So how could we take action?
When we seem worried about something or.
.
.
It's something we can't control.
Well,
There's two routes that I would like you to consider.
Let's call them indirect.
And direct.
So the direct might be to write that email.
To take action.
It might be to have that conversation.
It might be to decide not to have that conversation but something direct.
That you can do.
Take one step.
Away from the flatness and the stuckness.
And then we have an indirect route to action.
And this could be not to be stuck with it,
But to take yourself for a walk.
To read a book that lifts you up,
To put on a musical track that brings back great memories.
It might seem over-simplistic,
But it starts to move the energy.
So we have the stuckness of anxiety,
But in the center,
The pulse,
Some part of you that simply wants you to be well,
That says,
Let's move.
Let's take action.
Let's remind ourself that we can get through this.
We've done it before.
We'll do it now and we'll do it again.
Anxiety thrives with stuckness.
Movement builds momentum.
And momentum and action are the antidote to anxiety.
Take care and I look forward to seeing you soon.
