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Most people think anxiety means feeling too much, like they’re running on caffeine, we might feel shaky, or like we’re trapped within ourselves. And of course, this is true BUT anxiety often appears when we can’t feel our other emotions.

When the body knows something is wrong but the mind can’t name it or feels scared to or doesn’t know how to then tension builds and our nervous system stays on alert. You think, plan, anticipate or distract but it never quite works.

As such, we end up not processing the feeling, and instead try to “manage” or “hold it" - this is how I describe anxiety.

Some people experience anxiety through overfeeling. Everything is intense. Their body floods with emotion, heart racing, thoughts spinning, sensations everywhere. It’s as if the volume on life is turned up too high.

Others experience anxiety through underfeeling. They stay in their heads, thinking rather than sensing. They try to reason their way out, to analyse or explain what’s happening. But emotion doesn’t always respond to logic, and the body doesn’t calm because the feeling hasn’t been felt.

Both patterns come from the same place a loss of connection between emotion, body, and meaning/belief.

This is backed up by research too which shows that anxiety rises when emotion is suppressed or avoided. The physiological system stays switched on. Heart rate, breath, and muscle tone don’t return to baseline.
When emotion is safely processed, through awareness, grounding, or expression then the body can relax. It’s not about eliminating anxiety, but understanding what it’s trying to say.

If you tend to overfeel, grounding helps. Slow movements, stable breathing, physical contact with your surroundings. If you tend to underfeel, expression helps: journaling, talking, art, therapy, or allowing anger and sadness to surface in safe ways.

Anxiety lowers when emotion has somewhere to go. The body settles when feeling and meaning reconnect.

When you next feel anxious, try asking yourself:

Often, anxiety is a signal that something within us wants attention but we’re not sure how to meet it.

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p.s. Something to listen to while reading? Check out: Anxious Alibi - Me, Myself & My Shadow

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