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Worried about money, anxiety over job security, worried about children, fearful of personal security, obsessed by feelings of inadequacy – these are the distractions that occupy the normal mind. Unfortunately, psychology has confirmed time and time again that the normal mind is plagued with negative thought. This negativity is entrenched in the subconscious – that part of our mind that was conditioned by this way of thinking during our formative years – and it is now fed by the ubiquity of bad news, negative comment and the horror stories on which the media thrives. We are surrounded – from without and within – by negativity.

For some, that negativity results in anxiety – we become anxious about all the things that we don’t want to befall us. And this anxiety often leads to fear – again, fearful of the things that we don’t want to happen. And, for some, that anxiety can lead to outright panic – and that panic sometimes overwhelms us when we least expect it.

Firstly, you must to appreciate is that, if you are feeling anxious, fearful or panicked, it has nothing to do with you – it is the product of an over-active personality. Your personality – the person that you think you are – is a fiction founded on all the psychological ‘snapshots’ that you took during your formative years. You ’snapped’ events that made an impression on you at the time but, now, your subconscious mind is using those snapshots to create what you think of as your reality. And, because your subconscious automatically directs your energy into these negative emotions, you pretty much end up proving yourself correct – you were right to worry, right to be anxious, right to be fearful – your life ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Psychology tells us that we are only able to perceive and experience what we expect to perceive and experience. So, if we change our expectations, our experience of life will change. This, however, is easier said than done because, as I have already said, not only is your subconscious mind occupied by the long-term squatters of negative thought, we are surrounded by other people who are stuck in the same nightmare. It is a challenge to envisage life being so different.

So, you need to start re-building your innate ability to ignore destructive, self-sabotaging and negative thought by redirecting your attention to what is real. Reality is awaiting your undivided attention in the here and now. To be blunt, this day could be your last – you had better get busy experiencing, living and capitalizing upon the wonder of the here and now. The now is a place where fear, anxiety and panic are simply not. It is a place where real action is taken – action that can move your life in the perfect direction. It is a place where you meet life’s challenges head on – without anxiety or fear.

However, try telling this to someone who’s in the depths of despair. Try explaining this to someone who has thrown in the towel. Try telling someone who is overwhelmed by panic that it’s not real. You’ve got to develop your ability to appreciate, experience and live in the now when it doesn’t matter so that you can be fully focused, fully alert, fully armed, when it does matter. So, tomorrow morning, take five minutes to sit and focus on what your senses are telling you – not what your fictional personality thinks that they are telling you. Root out that imposter – out of your life – and see where life will take you.

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