All Hyped-up and Sleep Anxious

I already mentioned about how my weekend plan was ruined by being anxious about things which may be important but not at that time when I’m supposed to relax. This has always been a problem for me – translating all the negative sleep ruining energies to a positive sleep enhancing energy.

To start with, where do all these anxieties come from? Does it come from the subconscious mind or from somewhere else that I have no control over? I want badly need to know so I would probably know how to shut them all off. Experts say that anxiety originates from an interplay of environmental, psychological, and biological factors, with stress and life events requiring adaptation or change, being the most critical.

I guess the one that I can relate to is the stress factor. Stress is characterized by aversive emotional experience and it is a highly aroused state. Anxiety is known to build up in the emotional experience side that when one’s experience is negative, naturally, the body will build up tension that is aversive of the negative stress experience.

I guess the problem with me is that I am sort of blinded to see that there is a problem. Sometimes, I fail to recognize that my body is stressed. I actually don’t see all the pressures at work as stress or as a negative experience, because it is already a part of my system, and somehow, I have learned to like it. It’s like take that away from me and I would not know who I am.

This made me realize that stress and anxiety reduction is not as simple as changing the setting, as going to a different place and literally leaving work at the office did not make any difference at all. It is actually a waste of time if you still haven’t learned to change your outlook about work and life outside of work. There has to be a line which separates them. There has to be a way to strike that balance and maintain it. Right now, I’m still in the process of learning ABC’s of that and it is a great challenge, I must say.

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