Does it sometimes feel like you’re barely hanging on and all you can do is worry?
You already know that worry, anxiety, and fear aren’t good for your physical health. But the spiritual side-effects are equally pervasive and even more damaging. According to the teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, these side-effects negatively impact every aspect of your psycho-spiritual self.
Why is it important to articulate and examine what fear, and its cousins, anxiety and worry, do to us spiritually?
Because fear can creep into virtually all our thoughts and feelings. Once we truly understand the pain it causes and the quicksand it pushes us into, we are more likely to find the motivation we need to get rid of it.
No one does this sifting, clarifying, and analyzing better than Rebbe Nachman of Breslov.
Rebbe Nachman was light-years beyond of today’s psychological experts in his depth and breadth of knowledge about the psyche. Today the experts kindasorta know that fear, worry and anxiety might possibly be related to anger, depression, and other painful feelings. But, they don’t have the wisdom or the emunah, to give us lasting, soul-elevating answers rooted in Truth.
Rebbe Nachman clearly shows us that