The Art of Healing Anxiety: Alchemy Abound!

"A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story."
- Anthony De Mello

For the New Year, I declared that I was totally breaking up with Anxiety forever. In March at  Tony Robbins amazing Unleash the Power Within event it would just vanish and be exorcised from my Being as I walked across the fire. I feel better, but that did not quite happen. It is a Way, not a destination! Read more about my tools for healing and transformation below.

Since I was a very young child I have suffered from severe anxiety, social phobia, and panic attacks. Art is my cure and Art has literally saved my life! Art is the most potent alchemy for toxic emotions.  Over the years through my own transformation and healing I have developed a powerful Arts and Healing practice called Harmonia.

To heal we all need to be empowered and embrace that we are Creators!!!  
We are Co-Creators and we are the Creatrix!!

I have to say you cannot just get rid of the little monster of Anxiety. For me she comes in cycles. And with each cycle I have developed stronger tools to transform Her and diffuse her faster.  As well as over the years I have befriended Her. For me she developed from being an over sensitive empath living in cruel and volatile world. At Her core she was just trying to protect me.

Here is some things that help me and I teach, as I am aficionado of It 　

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. ~ Carl Jung

Healing and Get to know your Anxiety

• Mindfully realize that She is a Giant Archetype of Limiting Beliefs! For me Anxiety is one of the Masters of Limited Beliefs and of Separation.
• Reflect on the other Emotions, old stories, and Limiting beliefs are woven into your Anxiety. You have to peel the onion.  It is all woven together “People are cruel,” Anxiety’, and “I am not good enough.” I have a spectrum of E ~motions that are connected to Anxiety like shame, guilt, sadness, frustration ( I am trying to reach my greatest potential here)  confusion, anger, hypervigilance, dependence on approval, fear not feeling safe, not feeling loveable….on and on.
  
  
• Write on a piece of paper in the center anxiety and then create a map or web of what other Emotions and patterns are tangled up in it.
  
  
• Now that you have id the Emotions and Stories you need to release these trapped emotions from your body. The book the Emotional Code is a good one. Read more about  HERE.
• Contemplate how powerful Anxiety is?
• Think about the energy of Anxiety? Also, reflect on when Anxiety first entered your being, what if at the moment in time your taught or you realized that you could channel that vast powerful energy into a positive state. - Come to terms with your childhood wounds.
  
  
• Draw a picture/ a cartoon of what your anxiety looks? What is its color, what do the lines look like? Give it a name.
• Take a canvas and some acrylic paint ~ get into your anxiety pain body and begin with great physicality painting it out. When you are done step and ask it questions. Write about it.
  
  
• Honor your anxiety and thank her for her work, but now she can retire.
  
  

“Turn your demons into art, your shadow into a friend, your fear into fuel, your failures into teachers, your weaknesses into reasons to keep fighting.” ~ Andrea Balt

• Know that you are not alone. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population every year.
  
  
• Create Intense Self Love, Self Compassion, and Self Forgiveness Rituals. Become your Best Friend and Your own Cheerleader.
• Mediate! Connect with Nature & Animals daily!
• Tap into things larger that yourself, explore the Mystical teachings!
• Create Art daily! Journal!!
• Make your home a peaceful Retreat with sacred objects, candles, and flowers.
• Employ plant medicine/ essential oils!! Have a stockpile of lavender, vetiver, clary sage, sandalwood, and Basil I use doTerra, which is high quality and amazing!!! Diffuse the oils and also apply topically. On the soles of your feet works wonders!! Shop HERE.
  
• Employ crystal medicine. Black Tourmaline is a must in all of our lives.
  
• Do inner work ~ build a huge and empowered inner world. Clear out your Chakra system daily. A great book on Chakra work is Wheels of Life. Get HERE.
  
• Practice Ho'oponopono. Read more HERE.
• Eat lots of root veggies.
• Daily ground yourSelf! Earth into the sacred ground.
  
  
• Lastly, consider if your Anxiety story is know longer true? It is like the butterfly still thinks she is a caterpillar syndrome.
  
  

Then just get in the high state of Gratitude!!! Be thankful for the gifts your anxiety gave you. How is SHE your greatest teacher? Walk through HER and on the other side she IS Benevolence, Reverence,Verve, and Great Enthusiasm for the Art of Life!! Be very gentle and kind to your AMAZING Self ~ You are ART!! And You Are A Gift!!!

Namaste!! Lisa