In its grip

 

When anxiety gets a hold of you

Its grip is tight

It wants to hold on with all its might

Getting you to believe in scenarios of woe

That things you feel or fear

Will destroy you or bring you undone

Causing you to unravel

But the truth is that life

Just wants you to travel

It wants you to open to sorrow and pain

It wants you feel the pulse of life

That you blocked in your body

Flowing forward again

Uprising and downflowing

Flooding you with life energy

That you have come to believe

May only bring disaster or threat

So when anxiety tries to wrap you up

Tight within its icy grip

Get into the warmth of saying

Yes

I will open myself

Fully to live this life

And stay with the sensations

And I will surrender to what comes

Without losing faith

That the charge and intensity of life

Will be too much

And even if grief or sadness or pain

Is what comes

I am beginning to trust

That I have a body and soul

That is strong enough to contain

Channel and express

This powerful energy in motion

That wants me to live and grow

Free of the prison

Of doubt insecurity and fear