When we worry, we stay locked in those bodily reactions because we are locked into the future. Because the imagined future is always ahead of us, our bodies stay locked in the fight-or-flight mode continually, long past what they can sustain healthily. In other words, while anxiety hijacks your mind into the future, it also hijacks your body into the future. Anxiety is commandeering your natural fight-or-flight system for its “Not Yetness” when God designed it just for his Now. The more we pay attention to those bodily symptoms, the faster we will recognize anxiety as something happening
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