Hi Arielle
All this business at the moment is definitely challenging. There are a lot of factors involved which can be stress inducing. When you hear leaders and health professionals understandably say 'We need to be vigilant', repeating this over and over again, and you also have people losing their minds hording stuff from supermarkets (like folk from those doomsday prepper shows), it really starts to test your sense of reality and your nervous system. Don't get me started on the media, grrr!
Personally, I battled with depression for many years in the past. I always felt so incredibly sad when I'd feel I was facing it again, until I realised what was happening. I hope this helps:
Most of us start life on a high, if we're truly lucky and there is no significant childhood trauma or illness. The high involves us being our most natural self - you know that non discriminating, genuinely loving highly adventurous and naturally excited little carefree creature, always curiously asking 'Why?!' Then we begin to come out of being our most natural self, based on a lot of highly questionable belief systems placed in our head by others.
There will be many higher states/levels of consciousness. We graduate through them, typically by letting go of learned destructive belief systems adopted throughout our life. There will be things that really come to test or challenge us before we graduate out of old ways into new levels of understanding, on our way to returning to our most natural self. Each new challenge takes us higher. Bit like a video game. If feelings of depression or anxiety creep back into our life, you can bet the graduation challenge is a big one. We don't graduate to higher consciousness through the little things. With life lessons come significant exams. I like to examine/question myself through the following: 'What is the challenge I'm being asked to rise to now?' For yourself, perhaps the challenge is to de-stress in a time of distress. How many ways can you think of to naturally de-stress? I imagine you've already learned some techniques. Is it possible to reform your life to include many of them on a daily basis? Myself, I'm a natural daydreamer and can enter this zone at the drop of a hat. It's a blessing at times 🙂
Keep in mind, the anxiety may not be yours. What you could be picking up on is the stress from others. It pays to distance our self from people who inject us with stress, even if it just gives us a little room to breath.
Take care
