You can take a quantum leap into healing your life of worry, fear, and anxiety by making a fundamental shift into a different mindset. When you begin to understand how your thinking and worrying seed your anxiety, you empower yourself to create positive changes. To exit from Zapland, you toss out worry and instead load up on knowledge and understanding. These supplies are light, yet immensely powerful in their ability to help lift you out of the pit of fear.

The next chapters show you how to release the stranglehold of worry and anxiety by taking charge of your life and your thinking. You are on your way out of Zapland!

Summary of Points Made in This Chapter

1.Constant worrying fuels anxiety.

2.Anxiety can make you feel edgy, on guard, crabby, and can interfere with sleeping.

3.Anxiety arises from being stressed in, not stressed out.

4.We differ in how we react to stress. We learn as well as inherit behavioral tendencies that translate stresses more easily into anxiety and depression.

5.Your past or your genes do not anchor you to anxiety. You can take a quantum leap out of fear and into healing when you start making better choices in how you think.

6.Although you can’t necessarily change what happens, you can choose how to react to it!

The WorryWart Quiz™: Do You Have Anxiety?

If you make a mistake does it bother you a lot?

Do you often overreact?