What if we had it all wrong?

What if anxiety isn’t the enemy?

What if anxiety is an expression of Love?

Anxiety. It moves in at the speed of light. And suddenly, your chest tightens, your breath shortens, and your mind begins to race. This feeling is the opposite of warm and fuzzy. You don’t want it there. You try to push it out. You try to stuff it down. You try to yell at it to move and go on it’s merry way. You try to meditate it away. You ask your crystals to take it away. Really, anything to stop this feeling.

Both you and I know that anxiety isn’t fun. It’s not something we talk about every day, although it’s something most of us experience quite often.

But listen, I want to pose a question to you: What if anxiety has your back? What if anxiety is beckoning you to hear it’s divine messages? What if anxiety is solely waiting for you to listen?

3 Steps to Hearing Anxiety’s Hidden Message:

1. Sit and breathe. Close your eyes, take a deep breath up from your pelvis, feel it move up to the crown of your head. Exhale from the top of your crown down to your pelvis.

2. Free write. In the midst of it feeling anxious, sit down and ask anxiety “What are you trying to tell me?” and just write. It is helpful to write out “Anxiety is trying to tell me” and finish the sentence.

3. Listen. Look at what anxiety is trying to tell you. You may be surprised at how loving and gentle it is once you open the dialogue.

Alison Leipzig is a featured Love in Life Contributor and her mission on this planet is to guide women to feel good in their bodies, and overcome negative body image and emotional eating For more about her click here for her full bio and all of her articles!