The Spiritual Meaning of Anxiety
Most of us are familiar with the experience of anxiety. We recognize the racing thoughts, the sense of impending doom, the overthinking, the mental spirals.
A lot of people experience anxiety physically-heart beating out of your chest, can’t catch your breath, sweating like you ran a mile.
Anxiety isn’t just a symptom of a mental health issue, it reflects a deeper issue that exists on a spiritual and energetic level.
It’s a sign that your soul is in desperate need of your own attention.
Anxiety is a Spiritual Messenger.
When anxiety is present, you aren’t.
Anxiety is a signal to yourself that you are missing, parts of you are anyway. It shows you that you are disconnected from your true self, who you actually are at a soul level.
Life on Earth isn’t always easy. Difficult life experiences (i.e., traumas, rejections, disappointments) often cause parts of your soul to fracture or fragment. Those pieces still exist, but they typically move to another dimension or are suppressed somewhere in your psyche that is difficult to access with your conscious mind.
This is designed as a protection mechanism. The fragmented pieces leave in order to protect the whole from the overwhelming amount of pain you might experience if they were to stay. But when they leave, they take some of your core essence with them and that leaves empty space within.
Emptiness doesn’t stay empty though. It has to be filled with something. And if parts of you aren’t available to fill that space something else has to fill that space instead.
And what will fill that empty space?
Anxiety!
Your soul has the desire to experience wholeness. But wholeness can only be experienced when all of your parts are at home (i.e., in our conscious awareness).
The parts work together to create the whole.
When wholeness is obtained, peace tends to follow. It creates groundedness and inner stability. When you are whole, anxiety doesn’t have room to enter, there simply isn’t space for it.
If you treat anxiety as a symptom, you fail to touch the underlying issue of soul-disconnection. You may learn to cope with anxiety more effectively or set up your life in such a way that you are less likely to become anxious, but that approach alone won’t allow for deep level healing or reconnection. Without reconnection it only creates an illusion of stability.
When You Feel Anxious
When you feel anxious try not to get frustrated by it or overly identify with it. Instead of using language like “I’m anxious” try saying “I’m noticing that I’m having the experience of anxiety right now.” And then get curious. Do some self-reflection. You can ask yourself questions like:
What part of me needs my attention right now?
What part of me might be missing?
What part needs to come home?
If you choose to listen to your anxiety as a messenger instead of a symptom, it might be the very thing that leads you back to wholeness. And for many of my clients that sense of wholeness isn’t something they even have a conscious memory of ever experiencing. It is possible to become whole even if you’ve never felt what that feels like before.
How Therapy Can Help Anxiety
Anxiety Counseling can help explore the ways you have become disconnected from yourself. It can help these parts of you to reconnect so that you feel truly whole, maybe for the first time. If you have questions about treatment for anxiety or would like to book a session with me, please use the Contact Me button below.
