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Anticipating The Good
Anxiety About Change
Allen. J. Tanner
MA.C; C.A.A.P
When we find ourselves going through any kind of change in our lives, our natural response may be to tense up on the physical, mental, or emotional level. We may not even notice that we have braced ourselves against a shift until we recognize the anxiety, mood swings, or general worried feeling toward the unknown that usually results. There are positive ways to move through change without pushing it away, however, or attempting to deny that it is happening. Since change will occur in almost every aspect of our lives, we can learn to make our response to it an affirmative one of anticipation, welcoming the new while releasing the past with grace.
One thing we can do is change our perspective by changing the labels we use to identify our feelings. We can reinterpret feelings of anxiety, as the anxious butterflies that come with eager expectation. With this shift, we begin to look for the good that is on its way to us. Though we may only be able to imagine the possibilities, when we acknowledge that good is there for us to find, we focus our energy on joyful anticipation and bring it into our experience while allowing the feelings to carry us forward.
We are so big on ceremonies in our society that we can also choose to do a ceremony to allow our emotions to process. Every culture has created ceremonies to help people make the transition from one phase of life to the next. During a particular dark time in my life, not too long ago, I created a ceremony of my own, to carry away the darkness in my life. I wrote down all the dark and depressing thoughts I was having and I burned them, watching the smoke carry them away, thereby releasing them. Then I celebrated my new life with new endeavors, and a bright future by planting, three trees, one representing taken care of myself, the second representing a relationship with someone I love very much, and the third tree, representing the exciting future that God has for my life. Sometimes the shift from denial to acceptance is all that is needed to ease our anxiety, allowing us to bring our memories with us as we move through darkness to joyful excitement about the good to come!!
Mr. Allen Tanner, has worked 7 years, as a full time chaplain and crisis counselor for
Lake County Sheriff’s Office, 3 years as a hospital chaplain, and served 3 years as a missionary to West Africa. He currently is director and founder of Counseling Services of Florida, and reaches out to those in need in a variety of ways. He is an accomplished international speaker, workshop, and conference leader, he has appeared on the Focus on the Family, and the 700 Club, and his exciting insights have been published in many magazines, journals, and spiritual publications.
For booking information, please contact:
Allen Tanner
352-573-3333
allen@csuk.us
Anxiety About Change
Allen. J. Tanner
MA.C; C.A.A.P
When we find ourselves going through any kind of change in our lives, our natural response may be to tense up on the physical, mental, or emotional level. We may not even notice that we have braced ourselves against a shift until we recognize the anxiety, mood swings, or general worried feeling toward the unknown that usually results. There are positive ways to move through change without pushing it away, however, or attempting to deny that it is happening. Since change will occur in almost every aspect of our lives, we can learn to make our response to it an affirmative one of anticipation, welcoming the new while releasing the past with grace.
One thing we can do is change our perspective by changing the labels we use to identify our feelings. We can reinterpret feelings of anxiety, as the anxious butterflies that come with eager expectation. With this shift, we begin to look for the good that is on its way to us. Though we may only be able to imagine the possibilities, when we acknowledge that good is there for us to find, we focus our energy on joyful anticipation and bring it into our experience while allowing the feelings to carry us forward.
We are so big on ceremonies in our society that we can also choose to do a ceremony to allow our emotions to process. Every culture has created ceremonies to help people make the transition from one phase of life to the next. During a particular dark time in my life, not too long ago, I created a ceremony of my own, to carry away the darkness in my life. I wrote down all the dark and depressing thoughts I was having and I burned them, watching the smoke carry them away, thereby releasing them. Then I celebrated my new life with new endeavors, and a bright future by planting, three trees, one representing taken care of myself, the second representing a relationship with someone I love very much, and the third tree, representing the exciting future that God has for my life. Sometimes the shift from denial to acceptance is all that is needed to ease our anxiety, allowing us to bring our memories with us as we move through darkness to joyful excitement about the good to come!!
Mr. Allen Tanner, has worked 7 years, as a full time chaplain and crisis counselor for
Lake County Sheriff’s Office, 3 years as a hospital chaplain, and served 3 years as a missionary to West Africa. He currently is director and founder of Counseling Services of Florida, and reaches out to those in need in a variety of ways. He is an accomplished international speaker, workshop, and conference leader, he has appeared on the Focus on the Family, and the 700 Club, and his exciting insights have been published in many magazines, journals, and spiritual publications.
For booking information, please contact:
Allen Tanner
352-573-3333
allen@csuk.us
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