Anxiety and its spiritual effects — YouTube from the CEC Library

The conversation about anxiety is part of a broader study of spirituality, energies, and human behavior. The focus is to develop a healthy spirituality in which each person can live their own experiences instead of depending on other people's beliefs. Anxiety is a global issue, but Brazil stands out as the most anxious country in the world. This is directly reflected in people's spirituality and behavior. Rapid and superficial communication exemplifies the haste and lack of inner time that many face.

Anxiety is a challenge that affects many people, and it is essential to approach it calmly and deeply. Every setting is permeated by an intense pace that has already become the norm. Once something becomes common, it is difficult to reverse because people have already adapted to it, not only physically but also spiritually.

We should remember that we are a multidimensional cell. Our body and the planet are multidimensional cells, and everything that happens occurs in all these dimensions. If we look at what happens first on the spiritual plane and then on the physical plane, especially in relation to anxiety, we can understand reality better. This clairvoyant view helps us understand what is happening.

A sentence from the book "The Other Who Exists in Us" draws a parallel between behavior and spirituality: when someone suffers from anxiety, they are at an emotional speed incompatible with reality, either thinking faster than they act or acting faster than they think. This places the person outside the present moment. The opposite of anxiety is presence, being in the here and now. Anxiety has a solution, but it requires a path opposite to what we are accustomed to, since society encourages speed. This speed incompatible with reality places us anywhere but the present. Current media allow us to listen quickly, but this makes us want to eliminate the process, like reading a book only to finish it. We lose the meaning of things, merely rushing through our lives.

If we speak about anxiety, it is crucial to assess how present we are in what we do. Are we truly living, or merely rushing through things while experiencing physical and spiritual symptoms? Before entering the spiritual aspect, it is important to recognize the difficulty of identifying anxiety. We often lose the reference for what it means to be present and to have healthy inner time and space. From birth, even if the family already expresses and works with these concepts, we are not exempt from acceleration. Brazil is number one in anxiety, and this is reflected in our energy and environment.

We live in a family unit, neighborhood, city, and country, all interconnected. If we live in a tranquil place, the effect is smaller, unless we use social media. Everything is energy, and living in a city filled with honking horns and chaos affects us even if we try to be different.

All the different speeds we perceive or fail to perceive permeate the environment. From the spiritual point of view, a city would be seen as an "energetic slime," dense energy resulting from the accumulation of many people's energies. It is not only the energy we produce that spreads, but all the information about who we are, including our speed. Thus, it is impossible not to become contaminated unless we are in a higher-chakra state. Even then, we will still be affected, although we will not become exactly that.

Energy can harm us in some way. The question is: can we perceive whether we are anxious? We have lost the reference for a healthy speed and notice only when the discomfort becomes unbearable. For example, someone may identify their anxiety when giving a presentation at work or college, feeling nervous and disorganized. Anxiety manifests in the lower chakras, and the greater it is, the more disorganized the person becomes, losing discernment, breaking into a cold sweat, and having stomach pain. The person realizes that anxiety harms them in critical situations, but in fact they are anxious all the time.

If we compare this with someone who has been making behavioral changes for some time, what is baseline anxiety for one person may be a peak of anxiety for another. Behavioral changes make us more stable, enabling us to perceive how rushed and anxious we used to be, how much energy we lost, and how exhausted we became. This leads us to reflect on our anxiety level from 0 to 10.

One proposed exercise is to review our everyday life. We are often not present in simple actions, such as putting a key in the door. We are always thinking about the next step, losing contact with the present moment. This prevents us from living our own life, because we are always living expectations, fears, and desires. Our memory weakens because we are not present in what we should be living. The farther we are from reality, the more anxious we become, outside the "here and now."

Work involving stillness and presence, which has been ongoing for three weeks, goes against anxiety. An illustrative experience was shared in the members' area on Monday by someone who began observing their level of acceleration and anxiety. The normalization of everything keeps us from perceiving it; we think it is normal. We use 2x speed to listen, watch only 15 seconds of a video, have no patience, and cannot be alone with our thoughts. This has become normal.

Through self-knowledge work, this person began observing how rushed they were and how this affected their children. Before, they rushed the children to eat and dress quickly because of their own tasks. Now they are taking the opposite path. They asked their son to take another forkful only after swallowing, whereas before they encouraged speed so they could continue with their tasks. Other examples show that they were unaware of the pace at which they lived and are now reversing it.

It was interesting to see how this person realized that they projected their pace onto their family and even the employee working with them. They began transforming this into something healthy. Anxiety can be perceived in this way. When we change, we do not need to talk directly about time and speed; we serve as reference points for others. When someone changes, the people around them notice, and this can influence them positively.

A question arose about pathological levels of anxiety, with symptoms such as sweaty hands, tremors, and insomnia. Sleeping too much can also be a symptom, because we may be energetically drained by ourselves and by spirits around us. It is important to observe our level of anxiety before it becomes pathological. We often do not perceive our speed and anxiety. Stopping and reflecting can help us take the opposite path.

When someone asks whether improvement is possible, the answer is yes. Although anxiety may be a characteristic carried through several incarnations, it is not a permanent diagnosis. We can change, but this requires effort. One listener is an example of someone who perceived his acceleration and began observing himself. The first step is to perceive the level of anxiety, observe how we do small things, and notice our steps. An anxious person's walk is always hurried, losing its natural and healthy speed. The way back is presence, tranquility, and stillness. Being present is not easy, but it is essential.

We need to make an effort to be in the present moment because we are no longer accustomed to it. The way back involves spiritual practices and meditation, because every meditation works with breathing, which brings us to the present moment. This state of consciousness enables us to slow down and be truly present, whether eating or listening to someone. Assessing how much we listen instead of already thinking about our response measures how accelerated we are.

Our life is connected to everything around us; we are not isolated on planet Earth. To integrate is to surrender to perception and contact. To do this, we need time and space, allowing what is external to enter us, with inner space and time for observation, relationship, and contemplation. Today, few people can, like our grandparents, sit and look at the sky without haste. Most live in restlessness, always highly active. In terms of spiritual evolution, moving from the lower chakras toward the crown chakra involves relating to everything around us, but we can do this only in a state of presence. In anxiety, there is no point in rushing through traffic and then trying spiritual practices. The result is proportional to our relationship with ourselves.

On the path of improvement, in addition to living in the present, it is important to observe how much we overload ourselves. With no time for ourselves, we chase after everything, especially in large cities, where external factors affect us. We run in search of inner time but become lost, overloaded with tasks and self-imposed obligations. Some people cannot bear to leave messages unanswered, considering this a sign of respect for the other person, but it reflects our inability to wait.

We live compressed, without time to reflect, merely rushing to meet anxious needs. Rapid communication is a constant in our lives, with demands from work and family. Some people send messages and then call immediately to ensure attention. How do we deal with different levels of requests? Ideally, each person would wait their turn, but in some personal relationships, responding quickly can reduce evocation and its effects on us.

Energetic experiences show that in some cases responding quickly is better. I changed the ringtone for one specific person because I know a quick response is important to them. I do this because I learned that we can be a great influence in other people's lives, but we cannot change them. How do we fit into this context of anxiety and requests? It is a major question for each person to find their own path. The focus should be on practice and feeling. When many people want to speak with us, we need to assess: how affected do I feel, or not, and what resources do we find?

Anxiety has multiple origins: fears, the environment in which we live, among others. Usually all these factors are combined. Anxiety expresses itself in various ways from a young age. Our defense mechanisms project themselves into unnecessary situations. You may be doing something pleasant, such as shopping, but everything has to be quick. Life passes and you do not even notice what you did, living in a future you do not even know.

Today, we are all Alice's rabbits, in a hurry without questioning why. Sometimes there is no need; there will be time. A group member realized they were rushing to pick up their child from school even though they were not late. Organization also helps reduce anxiety. The environment affects us, so to avoid becoming anxious about missing something important, such as an appointment, leave earlier and organize your life. Later you can think about changing, but organization reduces anxiety.

Clairvoyance and our own experience show us that we are accompanied by what we are. This was a great shock to many people at the beginning of the spiritual work. How could my spiritual helpers be like me? Today, I would even replace the term "helpers" with "spiritual companions." The term "helper" may give the impression that someone is sustaining us, but in reality we are accompanied by spiritual consciousnesses that no longer have a physical body but are similar to us. In any process, whether anxiety, depression, anger, or jealousy, the spirits accompanying us are very similar to us, are at the same level, and this hinders our evolution.

We share dense energy with these spirits. If, for example, we have a disincarnated mother who was anxious, she may continue influencing us, inciting us to act according to her beliefs and anxieties. Without the physical body, these spirits may influence us to the point that we feel peaks of anxiety and energy depletion without understanding why. There is a significant spiritual aspect that we do not see and that can worsen our emotional state.

In addition to spiritual influence, there is our composition as human beings. We inhabit a physical body and also spiritual bodies, such as the mental and astral bodies, which have chakras. When we speak of having healthy time and speed, we refer to the proper functioning of our chakras, which capture and exteriorize energies. We should not confuse slowness with balance. The chakras are fundamental to understanding everything that happens to us, from illnesses to healing processes and difficulties.

As we adopt new emotional speeds, this is reflected energetically. We may lose the healthy chakra reading that we perhaps had centuries ago. Today, the stimulus for them to remain accelerated is very strong. Just as one cell tries to remain healthy amid billions of others, we also face challenges in maintaining energetic health. When the chakras change speed, this may indicate pathological work, contrary to an emotionally stable condition.

The question of what is "normal" or "healthy" is important. Feeling anxiety is common to a point, but it is not healthy. Anxiety is part of defense mechanisms, but our goal is to grow and overcome instinctive responses. Anxiety is synonymous with instability, and instability is not healthy. Understanding the energetic process helps us perceive that anxiety destabilizes our chakra work and our relationship with the present.

I heard someone say that stress is not necessarily bad; there is positive and negative stress. Positive stress occurs in situations such as preparing for a trip, generating natural stress but for something good. Negative stress accumulates, generating tension at work and other consequences and growing internally. When we associate stress with a positive secondary gain, it seems to be under control. However, any process that results in energy depletion, such as anxiety, places us in an unstable state, dispersing energy into the environment and making it difficult to control the ego at work and in life.

Packing a suitcase or planning a trip can be a happy and expansive experience, but we often add stress to these activities. We need to demystify this. Even anxiety about something positive is subject to spiritual influences around us. Regardless of the result, anxiety generates dense energy that is released into the environment, benefiting the consciousnesses present and tending to draw more consciousnesses to the place.

A question arose about how we can communicate better with emotionally accelerated people. Moisés said that living in peace should be a goal for everyone and that no one should contaminate us with their energy. Although this may seem utopian, it is important not to let ourselves be contaminated. Anxious people may be aggressive, and assertive communication is essential. However, someone at high emotional speed often does not listen. It is important to try to communicate, find the right moment, and express how the other person's speed affects us.

There is no general rule for communication; each person requires a different approach. Our obligation is to try to show how the other person's speed affects us and may even make us ill. Learning not to become involved and to take a position is fundamental to avoiding contamination by other people's energy. The energy donation practice lasts five minutes. Use this time to assess your capacity for presence: observe how many times your mind wanders and where it goes. This helps measure your presence. Concentrate on your breathing, bringing your mind to the present moment. Breathe deeply, keeping your focus on your breath. Rub your palmar chakras to bring attention and focus. Open your hands and begin the energy donation.

Continue breathing deeply, imagining the air being directed to your heart. Feel your heart grateful to participate in a larger effort. Perceive your heartbeat and the movement of your chest. When you feel your heart pulsing, try to perceive it in the palms of your hands. Continue breathing and directing the air to your heart, feeling the pulse of the palmar chakras and the energy work. If your thoughts wander, bring them back to the focus on breathing and the energy work, giving thanks for taking part. The exteriorization is complete. There is no miracle; continue observing yourself and making small, gradual changes.