How You Set Yourself Up By Choosing Anxiety Over Internal Happiness.

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We all face problems in our lives, and these problems can make us feel bad.

However, the common approach of channeling all our efforts into solving our problems is not effective.

If it were, we wouldn’t have so many problems in our lives.

We need to stop believing that life is all about effort and struggle and that putting our noses to the grindstone is the only way things can change.

This approach is sad and depressing, and there is a better way.

Are you taking the right steps?

Let’s take an example that many of us can relate to — money problems.

When we have money problems, we naturally focus our attention on them and try to figure out a solution.

However, this problem-solving approach intensifies anxiety, worry, and stress, and rarely leads to a satisfying solution.

We need to realize that we cannot solve our problems in the same state of consciousness we were in when we created them.

It’s not a lack of effective thinking that keeps us from finding the solution to a problem, it’s misdirected attention.