We live in a complicated, anxiety-producing world. In our culture today, anxiety is one of the major ailments that people both suffer from and seek to relieve.

We all know what happens when your body, mind, and spirit become afflicted with high anxiety. High anxiety can cause physical maladies, such as heart attacks, strokes, autoimmune disorders, eating disorders, and overloaded adrenal glands. Emotionally, anxiety can throw us off balance, cause depression, make us distracted and absentminded. It can even lead to unhealthy obsessions and addictions. Worry can make us grouchy, snappy, self-focused, and can even cause memory issues. Most of all, it can disrupt our sense of peace, balance, and wellness, so that we become our worst selves. Spiritually, high anxiety causes us to turn our att…