The Antidote to Anxiety is Learning How to Fall

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Anxiety is a persistent condition of modern life. Because of the magnitude of their responsibility for keeping things “safe and sound,” business leaders — like parents — usually have increased sources of anxiety. Add in the uncertainties around the age of COVID, and many of us may be feeling off the charts levels of anxiety.

To treat the dis-ease, we must understand its pathology.

Anxiety arises when we feel de-stabilized in (or more) of these five areas:

• Financial Insecurity ("Is there enough?")

• Relational Instability ("Who are my allies?")

• Epistemological Uncertainty ("What's true? What's meaningful?")

• Physical Health ("Things don't feel healthy or whole.")

• Existential Insecurity ("Are we going to die / go out of business?")

Buddhist dharma teaches that there is NEVER any absolute stability to anything so it's wise to learn to live with it!

This short (3 minute) video segment from a recent interview I did with Mark Eckhardt of COMMON gives some pointers to working with anxiety.

I hope this is helpful to you.