"It's not about how one reacts to a negative situation, it's how they manage it"

Anxiety

I don't believe there's one person who doesn't encounter it.  Whether it's positive anxiety, stress-fueled anxiety, "manic" anxiety, etc. life's unexpected events can definitely spur this strong emotion.

Within our day-to-day tasks, planning is a significant action that helps us attain our goals.  However, when that "hiccup" situation comes full force, our mind becomes frazzled and unorganized.  Our heart may speed up, tears may flow or worst yet, we can become immobile.  But the true solution to that anxious feeling, is to completely flip your mind into thinking "I can handle this, it can always be worse, and I will conquer."

In the spiritual sense, bringing clarity to those intense nervous thoughts will bring your entire self at peace.  After all, our emotional strikes lead directly to our physical being, indefinitely.  I like to think of the brain as a computer, and too much "data" causes an overload.  So, we are told to breathe deeply, try and think logically about the situation and move on.  

We are our own controller of circumstances.

Which leads me to reflect on the following powerful phrase: "it's not about how one reacts to a negative situation, it's how they manage it".  *Manage is the key word, and is definitely one of the toughest actions for some.  Even as incredibly emotional beings, we have to teach ourselves every day to combat those cluttered thoughts and truly learn how to take control.

I think that a clear mind brings an incredibly amount of healing.  I've lived with anxiety my entire life, and do know this: we all have to be able to organize the positive and negative thoughts.  We have to learn that even in the most absurd situation,  we do move on.  God created obstacles to keep us growing, and learning from our experiences.  I say today, as the minutes of my life go by I learn to control my mind's own "worst enemy."  

There is no age as to when one finds that true inner peace, but I'm looking forward to successfully surviving the difficult stages ahead.