Excitement and Anxiety are two sides of the same coin.

Excitement is what happens when you are feeling "on top of things." Anxiety is what happens when things are "on top of you."

If you pay close attention, you will realise that both feel the same. Or, biologically, trigger the same feelings: the feeling of heart racing and not able to think straight. It's just that, one has a positive connotation to it and the other has a negative one.

Both are the two sides of the same coin. If one feels more "normal", the other feels like visiting the "upside-down" from Stranger Things.

Anxiety feeds on deeply rooted fear (that age-old voice that tells you that you aren't good enough). It pushes you to "live in your head" where you think more, do less. Anxiety, especially, can lock you from reality further by creating panic. If you're desperate to feel better, you'll start over-analyzing, pushing you deeper into the misery.

So what's left really? To do, rather "to be present". The only thing in your hand: your actions. So that you can be in command of your life and make space for bliss, peace, love.

If anxiety and excitement are two ends of a seesaw, then the work/struggle/pain to keep the balance between these sides, is right where life happens. The push-pull. Leaving the struggle is to leave life itself.