Anxiety is the body's way of helping its owner act properly when situations signal danger.

Anxiety - that's the body helping its owner act properly.

We should not complicate this natural process by mixing it with negative over-thinking and rear-view second-guessing.

When anxiety visits us, we should pluck the troubling past and the worrisome future from our thoughts.

And, when situations trigger our natural defense mechanisms, rather than fight, we should embrace the anxieties we have been blessed to experience. We should fully trust those anxieties are there to serve us. Then we should grab hold of the pre-frontal cortices and put them to full use…figuring out how to capture the energy brought through our reptilian-response vestiges and use that energy to spring to much higher places.

Of course, it will be very difficult to do this during the rush of chemistry that hits us when anxieties visit.

So, we must to plan in advance, during the calm between the anxiety storms.

And, we must practice...until we master the art of taking anxieties to better places.