Anxiety/fear could be the biggest problem of the human race. Animals and other mammals have instinctual fear, but they do not predict doom as do we humans. We think about the future and predict negative possibilities in our thoughts.
When we spend so much time predicting doom for the future, we are not living in the present and not being present with self. It's my philosophy that the greatest source of anxiety happens when we "LEAVE" the SELF.
So then- one of the best ways to decrease anxiety is to work at staying in the present with ourselves. When we stop rejecting our true self then we begin to heal the split between our "pretend" self and the true self. Heavy stuff, but true.
-sb
