I see anxiety as a thoughts disease.....
Some of those thoughts'll take you to your knees...
We say to our thoughts...."just go away please!"....
But they just persist with stealth like speed......

Getting us all worked up..
Day in and day out....
Never shutting up....
Always filling us with doubt.....

Have you ever noticed?....
Because I know that I have....
That when we are thinking good thoughts...
Our anxiety's not so bad.....

I can be headed out to the unknown and be filled with fear....
But when I'm approaching my "safe place"....
My nerves settle...
And switch gears.....

I start to calm down......
But what is it that calmed me.....
It was what I told myself.....
This explains the anomaly.....

That something that made me deviate from what is standard, normal, or expected.....
Was really nothing more than something I'm all to familiar with....another big ole' fat head trip....

Anxiety is not some random manifestation that just takes over our physical being.....
We have to allow it first...we have to invite it..we have to let it in....

With anxiety our thoughts are our worst enemy or our best friend....
They can be a help mate or make us feel there is no end....

So why can't we just "STOP IT"?....
As many like to advise....
Why must we be slaves to our thoughts...
The answer to this...I'd love to realize......

Ever noticed with deep breathing....
That unless you practice it daily...
That it really does no good....

I guess that's the same with negative thoughts.....
We have to replace them daily...and get rid of the bad ones like we should......

I mean who are they benefiting?....
Certainly not us....
So why don't we toss them away....
So we can be freed from this mental truss....

Practice...practice..practice...
I guess that's what we have to do....
Out with the bad...in with the good...
So our minds can be made anew.

Erica