You Are Not Your Anxiety: 11 Spiritual Truths to Reclaim Your Power in 5 Minutes
The regret you carry from your past? It’s an illusion. The anxiety you feel about your future? It’s a story you’re telling yourself. The belief that you are somehow “broken” or “not enough”? That isn’t even your voice.
For years, we’ve been taught to manage our stress and heal our past. But what if you’ve been trying to fix a problem that doesn’t actually exist? What if the emotions you feel don’t even belong to you?
This is a five-minute dismantling of the illusions that have kept you trapped. I’ve distilled years of my own awakening process into eleven truths that will fundamentally change how you see yourself.
You are not a body with a soul. You are a soul having a temporary experience in a body. It’s time to remember who you truly are. Read on to begin.
Part 1: The Great Illusion - Decoding What Holds You Captive
It took me years to understand these truths during my awakening processes, but I will briefly summarise the foundation for you.
✨ Your Emotions Are Not Who You Are. The emotions you are experiencing do not truly belong to you. Imagine for a moment that everything you’ve been told since childhood, about who you should be, what you should fear, and what you’re worth, is an illusion you’ve embraced as your own identity. You are not your mind or your emotions.
✨ Everything Happens in the Moment. The past and the future are just illusions of the mind. The reason you cannot stay in the Moment is because your soul feels fragmented and dispersed. When you go to the past, you find regret and cannot forgive yourself; when you go to the future, you find worry. Both are destinations of pain. Your triggers are not punishments; they are arguments from your soul, showing you exactly where you need to heal to reclaim the present.
✨ Nothing Truly Belongs to You (And That is Your Freedom). Everything in your life has a lifetime. Every person who left and every person who stayed came to teach you something. You were born alone, and you will return from this world alone. That’s why you don’t need to own anything. This realisation isn’t sad; it’s liberating. It frees you to experience everything without the fear of loss.
Part 2: The Path to Power - Becoming the Architect of Your Life
✨ Your Mind is a Tool, Not Your Master. If you want to change, you must train your mind. It is a powerful tool you need to learn how to use, not let it use you. An untrained mind will default to fear and regret. A trained mind becomes your greatest ally in building the life you want. Notice as you read this that you can already feel the choice to take control.
✨ Stop Blaming, Start Creating. Blaming others makes you forget your own power and responsibility. It keeps you in the role of the victim. Everything you witness in your life is, in some way, your work and your curriculum. That’s why the responsibility for your entire life belongs to you. You are the author of your story, not a character in someone else’s.
✨ Perfection is an Illusion That Holds You Back. You don’t have to be perfect; there is no such thing as perfection. The human experience is a flawed and beautiful one. Don’t wait for anything to be complete before you start something. If you take even one step on the path you truly desire, your soul will enthusiastically rush to support you. The first step is the only one that matters.
Part 3: The Soul's Truth - Embracing Your Divine Design
✨ The Antidote is Within You. The love, mercy, and compassion you give to yourself are your antidote. You are the source of your own healing. You must give these freely to the child inside of you. As that inner child begins to feel safe and loved, you will notice that your entire world begins to heal too.
✨ Your Soul Chose This Body. Your soul chose this body, this weight, this height, these features. Love yourself as you are. There will never be another one like you. This life is lived only once in this body. Respect your soul’s choice. Every perceived imperfection is part of the experience you came here to have.
✨ Your Family Was Your Curriculum. You chose the family you’re in. These are the parent figures that will best suit your evolution and help you find your own light. This may be a difficult truth to accept, but everyone in your life, including your family, is a teacher there to help you find your way back to yourself.
✨ Your Ultimate Purpose is Love. Souls came to this world to transform experience into love, no matter how heavy their karma is. Your journey, no matter how much your mind and ego may resist it, is about transforming all emotions, fear, anger, grief, back into love. That is the work.
✨ The Time is Now. Now you have read this, where do you begin? Right here. In this moment. By choosing one of these truths and allowing it to settle in your soul. Your awakening isn’t a destination; it’s a decision you make right now.