Anxiety Amongst New People

 

Photo Credit: The Mind's Journal

Anxiety Amongst New People

Some people find it very difficult to open up in front of new people – it could be a mental problem which makes people anxious in front of strangers or is it that we don’t fit into society. All kinds of thoughts bombard such people.

Yoga and meditation help us in becoming one with the universe. In our perception of life, we are different and the world is different, hence the conflict. So, it is such anxious people versus the universe. We versus the universe is a bad competition to get into. Do we think we have any chance of winning this competition? Don’t compete with the universe. 

This is why we found a way called yoga. Yoga or union means we must consciously obliterate the boundaries of our individuality, so there is no such thing as us and the universe – it feels like one. We need to do a little yoga, otherwise our mind will get twisted out with all kinds of ideas, emotions, and opinions. 

If we open it up a little bit, if we obliterate the boundaries of our individuality, it becomes very easy because when we sit here, we see the other person as a part of ourselves. We have no problem whether it is a man, woman, child, or an animal. We will communicate with everything absolutely because we have opened-up our boundaries. It is only when we have concretised our boundaries that we will always have a problem. If it is a man, there is one kind of problem. If it is a woman, there is another kind of problem. 

It is time we work upon bringing ourselves to ease – not only with other people, just with life. The life that we are living must be at ease. If we are not at ease, we will never realise our true potential.

There is a certain genius in every individual. But ninety-nine percent of the people live and die without ever opening-up the genius within themselves. If it has to open up, if the true potential within us has to open up, our life should come to ease. 

With ashtanga yoga culminating in meditation and a state of samadhi, we learn to handle our body, our mind, our emotions in a very dignified way. The fluctuation in our energy gets stabilised and we become calm and peaceful.

Once we reach this state we are at ease with ourselves and life in general – that is of utmost importance – otherwise we will not be able to experience life the way it is.