Are you anxious at times? I am. Let’s face it, there’s plenty of anxiety to go around: lay-offs, relationship crises, pandemics, violence – and that’s just for starters.

Actually, anxiety is a natural alarm system that keeps us safe and productive. But it can become a chronic mindset. When that happens, it can deaden joy and stifle creativity.

你是否会不时感到焦虑？我是会这样的。我们不得不面对这样的现实：我们的周围充斥着各种各样的焦虑：失业、人际关系危机、疾病流行、暴力……不胜枚举。

事实上，焦虑是一种天然的预警系统，它帮助我们趋利避害；但它也可能成为一种慢性情绪问题，焦虑情绪的出现可能会让我们丧失感知愉悦的能力，并扼杀我们的创造力。

How to tackle anxiety

In my life it’s not so much the big-ticket items like the current influenza or the economic meltdown that make me anxious, it’s the fact that I tend to over-commit myself. The result is that I’m always a bit behind schedule. Anyone else feel like that?

One way to deal with overload is to pare down commitments, as Leo Babauta describes in his beautiful post, How to be less busy in a busy, busy world. Another way is to change our ingrained thought patterns and emotional responses.

Luckily there are some wonderful techniques that can help us to stay relaxed, focused, grounded, and cheerful – even under pressure. After all, anxiety is not produced by something external. It’s an internal response to stress. We can train the mind to respond in a more skillful way.

I want to share with you how I stay reasonably sane, grounded, and creative in the midst of a full life. But first let’s take a closer look at anxiety.

如何对付焦虑问题

在我的生活中，诸如流感或经济危机等大事件并不会使我特别焦虑。事实上，我的焦虑情绪更多地来源于对自我的苛求；这样做的结果就是我距离自己制定的目标总是差那么一点。是否有人与我有相同的感觉？

要处理这种情绪上的负担，有一种办法就是像利欧·巴布塔在他的博客美文《如何在纷繁世界中泰然生活》中所说的，适当放低对自己的要求。而另一种方式，就是改变我们根深蒂固的思维和情绪模式。

幸运的是，有许多很棒的技巧可以帮助我们，学习如何在各种情境——包括在压力下——也保持心态放松、精力集中、状态稳定并且精力充沛。归根结底，焦虑并非来自外界，而是我们对于压力的内在反映。我们可以训练我们的头脑，使之能够更有技巧地应对外来事件。

我希望与你分享我是如何在生活中保持头脑清醒，心平气和以及创造力旺盛的。在此之前，让我们先来更进一步了解一下焦虑。

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