In isolation during stressful moments, focusing on what’s at hand is easy because there’s nowhere for your attention to go except to what you are dealing with.
And the anxiety could easily creep into your head in the form of relentless internal arguments about how things could go from bad to worse.
When you isolate, you might prefer to spend time within the four walls of your room without a hint of sunlight to match the souring mood. Or spend most of your hours in the digital walls of your screens, pacifying the noise inside your head and lulling them with short-term rewards like finishing a movie series or unlocking a new task in-game.
I just want my hands to find something else to do and quiet my mind.
Does fear keep you awake at night?
If you feel like you’re at a dead end, perhaps because you allowed yourself to be stuck there.
You don’t have to remain in isolation.
One way to begin changing perspective is to leave the confines of your space and put yourself under the vastness of the skies. Taking those few steps to be under the daylight sun creates motion, and I’ve learned that motion creates emotion.
Wouldn’t seeing the blue skies and feeling the warmth of a sunny day give you a tinge of hope? Not to mention that getting vitamin D naturally enhances one’s mood.
Look up!
You’ll see how your situation compares minutely to the vastness and complexity of the world. There are so many things that we don’t have control over.
And from the few years I have lived, I have learned that surrendering control to God the Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, gives one’s heart peace and joy. Changing one’s focus away from one’s situation and towards Jesus gives one a space to breathe.
Jesus said:
28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden andoverburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.]
29 Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls. [Jer. 6:16.]
30 For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good–not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.
Matthew 11:28-30 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Here’s the cure for anxiety.
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