Are We More Anxious as a Society These Days?

I was writing an article for a newspaper this week where I was considering if our young people are suffering with anxiety more than they used to, so I thought in this week's blog I would talk about the increase in anxiety in general, as it's definitely talked about a lot more these days! 

If you have followed me for a while you will know that The Three Principles I now share with others changed my relationship with anxiety, and transformed my life in so many ways.

This is also the same for anxiety, its an inside out job.

Part of the reason I feel anxiety is on the increase is because we often misunderstand the inside out nature of life and believe that our external world creates the anxiety.

We have so much more to navigate in life these days, peoples lives are often busy and we are working, looking after children or family, keeping the family and so on and so on.

Now this may sound like I am saying these extremal factors create the anxiety, yet they don’t.

They do give us more options to overthink or over stimulate ourselves but the direct feelings of anxiety come from the way we see things, and how we experience our own reality, through our own thinking. 

This is good news!

If everything is inside out then this means that our perspective and the thoughts and stories we hold on to are crucial and can be changed!

Change comes when we see and hear something new and different. From this new perspective, we have an insight. How lucky am I that I get to point people in this direction for my job!?

If you find yourself getting caught up in your head having a lot of anxious thoughts and feeling overwhelmed then I would invite you to get curious about the inside out nature of life!

Is any other human having the exact same experience as you?
Do you find sometimes you react differently to the same situation on a different day?

Get curious about how you experience your reality on a day to day basis and see what shows itself!

Feel free to share with me your thoughts around any of this in the comments, and if you want to begin exploring this with me and having insights of your own to transform your understanding and experience of life, take a look at my 3 Day Mini Course for Understanding Anxiety.