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“Anxiety can make us suffer. It can also deepen our awareness and longing for serenity and peace.” - Mary Friedman Ryan
Courtenay: I liken anxiety to picking a bunch of grapes and then eating them one at a time. Sometimes you can get a sweet one, then a sour one, and then one right in between. How you react to each grape...or each level of anxiety, is up to you and your body and mind.
It is never easy to swallow a mouthful of anxiety but the harder you work at it...over and over again...the more familiar you will get with the triggers that bring it about...and then better able you are to handle it or reprocess your individual thoughts and feelings about it. It’s the same with sour wine. That’s why I like Moscato.
Soon enough that which was once sour when chewed turns into a sweet nectar on the tongue and brings us some measure of peace where once there was none.
Tibetan medicine works with the whole body to observe and recognize behaviors, lifestyle, eating habits, personal and medical histories, pulse observation and additional diagnostic practices before proceeding to treatment through diet, herbal medicine, physical therapy, and other spiritual practices.
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