Dear Cali Chica:

Good morning! It is exhausting but it gets less exhausting over time and practice, over a long, long … long time f practice. And it takes less time and less effort when we relax into the process, relax every time we feel distressed, calm that anxiety again and again on an ongoing basis.

Less time, less effort, less exertion if we relax into it. The person at the buffet, wanting to eat all those things that look so good, if she is anxious, heart beating, excited and scared of losing control, she is in trouble. But if she managed to relax as she stands there, to breathe slower, calm herself, she will do oh, so much better.

You referred to it many times as baseline anxiety, that is the term you used, isn’t it? That baseline anxiety can be calmed repeatedly throughout the day, a difficult task but it can be done.

anita