Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression28 Jun 2019

Ep. 107: Finding a Middle Path

In today's episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast, we are talking about finding a middle path in our recovery. This is a very important topic to me, as it is what has helped me immensely in my own anxiety management.

Finding a Middle path (or middle way) is about us seeing beyond our dualistic or black-and-white ways of thinking, behaving and being.

Finding a middle path (or way) describes our journey of seeing the middle ground between attachment (where we cling and grasp onto things being a certain way) and aversion (where we run away from things that are not the way we want them to be).

Finding a Middle Path is about stepping away from "good" and "bad" and seeing that there is no good and bad, and there is only neutral.

In this episode, we talk about embracing the dialectics of change and stillness at the same time. We addressed how finding a middle path is being independent whilst also being a part of a larger community. It is where we embrace tension, paradox and change and discover a world that is workable in the middle, not just at the beginning or end.

One of the reasons I love this concept so much is that instead of always seeking resolution and completion and perfection, we let ourselves open and relax in the middle stages of our process. We live in the reality of the present. The more we delve into the middle way, the more deeply we come to rest between the play of opposites.

One of the hardest parts of this Buddhist practices is learning to trust in life itself. In this episode, we touch on this as an important part of finding a middle path.

For more information on Finding a Middle Path, read this wonderful article by Jack Kornfield: https://jackkornfield.com/finding-the-middle-way/

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