Life can be hard. It can suck. Relationships are messy. This is all true AND everything changes. Using soft mental notes in meditation such as "anxiety arising" or "anxiousness feels like this" VS the detrimental rumination that goes something like "I'm the most anxious person in the world and that means I'm a bad person" reduce the attachment to a state of mind. We are not responsible for our thoughts and we don't need to identify as a particular type of state of mind because it's all subject to change.

When we can better deal with difficulties in meditation, our whole world can open up and become much less scary.

Thanks for listening today, you're nailing it.