Stress, fear, worry, insecurity, and anxiety - it seems like this family of related feelings are front and center for all of us these days.

Whether it's in the news, on social media, in our conversations, or in our quiet solitary moments, stress and anxiety are on the rise like never before.

In what follows I’d like to explore the deeper drivers behind these experiences, not to fix or explain them away, but to provide a practical framework with which to respond skilfully to the rising tide of stress in our lives.

Two pretty profound questions are crucial to our discussion: Who are you? And where do your experiences really come from?

In the context of stress and anxiety, just learning to pose these questions can be of immense benefit. And when you’re able to answer them directly for yourself, the benefit is even greater.

You’ll begin to experience more freedom from worry and fear, and you’ll start to enjoy a greater sense of peace, presence, and possibility in all aspects of your life.

This works because if we are able to tune into the first principles that underpin experiences like stress, we’re then able to deconstruct the emotional/conceptual infrastructure that holds those experiences in place.