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rezzeJ  ·  2595 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Green Beer & Rank Hypocrisy

    People are most comfortable living about ten years back. The present is scary as hell because you don't know what happens next.

Meditation helped me realise that the sole cause of my anxiety was essentially the latter part of this. In any situation where I couldn't be certain what was going to happen, I became anxious. In that way I was probably trying to live ahead of myself, which was completely unsustainable.

It's interesting to consider that now the dynamic might have reversed, in that I'm living behind myself. I can see it's true in some ways.