Right. The other thing is that if you never experience anxiety you will always fear it. And once you start to fear it it snowballs. Keep us posted, this sounds like a real interesting book.
The answer is really simple. If you have no anxiety in your life, you will likely never move forward, achieve goals, do the things you want and/or need to do. But if you are crippled by the anxiety (or ultimately panic), you are immobilized and also can't move ahead in life. I just finished Chapter 1 of the book I mentioned below. It talks about JEA executives - leaders who motivate themselves and others in their organizations to accomplish great things with Just Enough Anxiety. Not too much, not too little. If you can strike this balance, you will be productive, not fearful (but rather embrace change and the unknown), and generally reach the goals you set for yourself, whatever they may be. On to Chapter 2....
Ah yes. So many people aim for an anxiety free life. I am glad you noticed that that is not the ideal. Maybe you could explain why it is not the ideal. I think a lot of people will be surprised to know why.
If anyone out there is like me and takes themselves too seriously at times (or most of the time like I do....), I picked up 2 journalling books at the local Chapters bookseller. Many great and humorous sayings from well known people about anxiety/panic that will keep a smile on your face. At least it did on mine, with no medication required...:) Humour is a great way to bring down a person's stress and panic levels. How can you be panicking or stressed out when you are laughing so hard it hurts? One journal is called "In my Humble Opinion - An Inner Truth Journal". The other is called "My Dysfunctions - An Inner Truth Journal". I found them great for a laugh and a place to journal my thoughts and put things into perspective. On a more serious note, I also picked up a book called "Just Enough Anxiety- The Hidden Driver of Business Success" by Robert H. Rosen. It talks about striking the balance between having no anxiety in life (not good) and being paralyzed with panic (equally no good). It's written for people in leadership and looks to be a really good read. It looks at anxiety in a positive, beneficial way if you learn to recognize and channel it effectively. If anyone happens to read any of the above, let me know what you thought of them!
My little library will bring in books for me and because they have unlimited internet they will down load articles and Ebooks also. The great thing about libraries is that if you don't like a book you didn't waste the money. They have a lot of books and also music.
Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness by Gillian Butler is a good book I use it alongside the Feel the Fear series by Susan Jeffers both give good ideas and suggestions to use alongside this site.
The post traumatic stress disorder sourcebook by Glenn R. Schiraldi, Ph.D This is a book I bought a while back. I have just now gotten to courage to start reading it. I will let you know if it helped me later.
