How To Fight Anxiety

Imagine a giant fort. Inside it, there is a wonderous castle that contains elegant rooms.

There are intricate mazes that you can get lost in.

It’s so big you don’t even know half of what’s inside it.

There are important rooms and elements, places you spend a lot of time inside. Areas which you decorate and maintain.

However, there are other areas which are neglected but still play a prominent role.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of workers inside. Each of them carrying out different functions.

Some ensure the hall ways are clean. Others make sure the food is on point. Others take care of defence systems, whilst others are specifically employed for their taste in fashion.

Some people are more important than others. Some are expendable. Some are irreplaceable.

Right in the midst of the castle is of course the centre piece. The main attraction. The most important element…the throne room.

As with any throne room…there inside is the King and Queen. The whole purpose of the fort is to protect and serve the King and the Queen.

Now this fort has 5 major known points of entry and exit. Anything or anyone that comes in must come in from one of these 5 points. And of course, anyone or anything that leaves must do so using these 5 points.

It is incredibly important to make sure that each of these 5 points is guarded. Ample security is necessary. You want to place your strongest soldiers there. Otherwise, if not, the whole kingdom is susceptible to an attack.

Without adequate guard, any and all kinds of trouble-maker could enter. That includes those that wish to create deliberate harm. Those that have intentions of stealing, robbing or killing.

But there are also those that may not come across as trouble makers, however can create all kinds of problems once inside. Of course, it’s possible for these types of people to enter the kingdom even if it is guarded…which is why it’s ultra necessary that the guard is attentive.

In addition to the 5 main points, there are quite a few other hidden, unknown entry points. So it’s important to devise a system where even these are protected.

A well guarded fort controls exactly what goes in and what goes out. Everything is checked and maybe even double checked before it enters.

You don’t want an “innocent” looking fruit seller, for example, to enter with a wagon of what seems to be apples at the top, whereas underneath there are weapons of mass destruction.

More importantly, you don’t want the type of fruit seller who brings in a full wagon of apples, half of which contain a deadly bacteria, which can spread like wildfire.

If you were in charge of this fort, if you were the King or the Queen, what would you do?

Would you disregard the entry points or would you place added security?

Would you monitor what goes in and what goes out or just let it be?

Would you guard the whole fort or just the entry points?

Now ask yourself this, are you on guard or neglectful of your own kingdom?

The fort/kingdom is your body.

The 5 entry points are your senses: touch, taste, smell, sound.

The hidden entry points are your unconscious mind.

The intricate mazes, rooms, workers are all the amazing systems, arteries, veins, organs & cells etc inside your body.

The throne-room is your heart.

The King or Queen is your soul.

In short, your five senses are pathways to the kingdom of your heart.

If they are not appropriately guarded then the kingdom becomes threatened.

Your sub-conscious mind (the hidden points) also needs to be guarded.

Do you therefore consciously control what goes through your senses?

Do you filter what you lay eyes on?

Do you filter what you listen to?

Do you filter what you eat?

Do you filter what you touch?

Do you filter what you smell?

It’s much harder to filter the hidden paths, but to counter that do you take care of your surroundings and environment…or are you mindlessly on auto-pilot whilst all kinds of subliminal messaging contaminates your mind?

Do you take control of your thoughts or do you let them fester until they’re enshrined into your conscious mind?

Because rest assured, what goes in is processed by your internal system…and when something is input, processed then naturally there is an output.

If your life is rubbish. If your mood is off. If you’re anxious. If you’re depressed. If you’re stressed.

Have you questioned your environment?

Have you considered what you’re constantly watching, listening to, eating, touching or smelling?

Who are the people you’re surrounding yourself with? Do they support you? Do they have a positive impact on you? Or do they have a negative impact on you?

This applies to family, partners, friends, work colleagues, public figures, celebrities…anyone and everyone. What is your reaction to what they day and do?

How about the thoughts you have? Do you observe what your mind is saying…do you question why it has the thoughts it does…do you ever stop those thoughts from churning around and around or let them have a free reign to cause havoc?

Because if you don’t take the time to monitor these things and make a conscious effort to restrict the bad stuff…then you’re leaving yourself vulnerable and open to attack.

You have the malicious thieves and attackers in the kingdom…things you know that are bad for you, smoking, drinking, unhealthy eating etc. Do you allow them to pass freely?