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I noticed something the other day while I was driving. I used to have anxiety coming up to a stoplight when the "countdown" was in the single digits and I was too far to make it through easily. My fear was that I would get to the intersection too late and get a ticket for running a red light because there isn't enough space to stop or I would speed up to make it through the light but then I would get a ticket for speeding. For some reason, I was never able to do the "slow down" solution because I didn't want to annoy the drivers behind me.
Since I have been getting great sleep, guess what? The anxiety just naturally went away. It sounds pretty improbable but that is just one more of the benefits I have been getting in the last few months. I have written this before in other posts but life IS much easier than it was just four (4) months ago.
I was reading an article in Inc. Magazine and guess what they said about happy people? Happy people get good sleep. If you aren't as happy as you would like to be and want an easier way to get there, check out some of my other articles.
Update: A day after I wrote this article, there was a big brown spider sitting in my sink. For as long as I can remember, I have had fear about spiders. It may sound silly to you but if there is a spider, it was always an automatic reaction to kill that thing. I used to think, maybe it could be a black widow or a brown recluse ... let's just smoosh it and not take a chance, just in case. Do you know what I mean? I used to work with someone who was bit by a brown recluse and was in the hospital. Thank goodness she survived but she also needed extensive plastic surgery.
I am kind of shocked this happened. I thought, maybe I should try and move it somewhere else and not just kill it like I usually do. So, I took a cup and got it to crawl inside and released it in the backyard. There was no anxiety, no contemplation ... should I do it or not. In the past, if I wanted to do something but there was anxiety, I could spend 5 or 10 minutes going back and forth and finally willing myself to do it but there would be knots in my stomach afterward. Not this time ... before you know it, it was done and over with.
For me, this is an incredible change of behavior. Overcoming a fear this great without going to therapy or reading a book and having to "work on myself" is a huge thing. The benefits of getting great sleep just keeps on getting better. It is changing my outlook on the future, definitely seeing an upward trend like this is more than encouraging for me!
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