Addicted to Anxiety-Part 2

       Here is my other entry from the Anxiety Conference that I went to this past week or two. It is going to be about a 3 step calming down way that the main speaker, Sarah Gross, talked about most of the conference. It is called "Stop, Drop, and Roll".

Step 1-"Stop"
      -You stop what is making you anxious. Just stop right in the middle of it or when you are starting to get anxious.

Step 2-"Drop" 
       -Fall to your knees and give your anxiety of to God. Pray about what is giving you that anxiety.
        "Don't let fear take control. Turn it over to God."

Step 3-"Roll"
       -Roll it over to God. Once you have prayed to God about it, then you give (roll) it totally over to God. Forget all about it because it is in God's hands now.

Three simple steps to say, but when we try or want to do the 3 steps, it is really hard. We don't want to give everything over to God because sometimes we don't trust Him with it or we are scared of what He is going to do with it. Even though, we know that He knows us best. It is just in our sinful, human nature to keep ahold of things.

It is funny on my side of this whole anxiety thing when I think about it because I know when I have had enough of the fighting and the anxious feelings. My "too much" feeling is when I start to cry. I can't take anymore of these things so I just need to get away for a little while. Instead of telling people that, since I'm not big on talking, I tend to cry it out.

This might also sound strange but the more we lean into anxiety, the more it will lean us towards God. Read Matthew 6:33.

Anxious in Greek means "separation" so that, I believe, is an easy way for the devil to get ahold of people and turn them away from God but if we see that then we can fight back even harder and that is how it draws us closer to God. Look up: Proverbs 1:7. For me, I see it as time that I need to take to slow down and think about things. Get back on the right track with things and people, especially where I am right now. You and I can get so anxious that it makes our bodies and minds so sleepy and sick that we cannot think about what we are doing at the moment.

I can't remember if I put this in the 1st entry about anxiety but here is another quote I got from the conference: "Anxiety draws us closer to the Savior". 

When the conference was coming to an end I thought of something. That something was: "Bring Beauty to Women". I thought about that because it was a huge room full of women, listening to mainly women talk about anxiety. I mean I see that, as women, we are mostly affected by it because of the things we do and go through but there were some men that talked and knew about anxiety too. It is just neat to have seen a big room full of women that is and was going through anxiety. It was very encouraging to see as many women as I did. Now I know that I am not alone but then again, I never was. I always had God by my side.