Stop Trying to Calm Your Anxiety—Here's What to Do Instead
Your heart is racing. Your palms are sweating. There's a buzzing energy in your chest that won't settle. Your mind is spinning through worst-case scenarios.
You call this anxiety. You treat it like a problem. You try to calm it down, breathe through it, medicate it away, or white-knuckle your way past it.
What if you're misdiagnosing it?
What if that racing heart, that buzzing energy, that activated state isn't fear at all — but excitement that got mislabeled somewhere along the way?
What if anxiety is just compressed excitement, waiting for you to recognize it and let it run in its true direction?
The Actor at the Center of the Universe
Here's the truth nobody prepared you for:
You are at the center of your own universe.
Not metaphorically. Not as a self-help affirmation. Not as some ego inflation that you'll need to transcend later on your spiritual path.
LITERALLY.
Trying to be humble. Trying to be small. Trying not to take up too much space. Trying to fit in with all the other beings who are also pretending they aren't at the centers of their own universes.
It's like a party where everyone is secretly wearing a crown but pretending they don't notice. "Who, me? A king? No, no, I'm just regular. Just trying to get by like everyone else."
Article 2 of 3: Clearing the Ghosts — Releasing Inherited Shame
There are voices that live inside most of us—voices that tell us to be smaller, quieter, less alive. They whisper that our desires are dangerous, that our hungers are shameful, that wanting as much as we want makes us somehow broken.
Here's the truth that can set you free: those voices don't belong to you.