In this edition I want to talk about getting anxious while you wait. In most cases as I said we wait for something or someone for a short period of time and if anything, we might get impatient but not anxious. For example, we might be in a queue for groceries and we can see that we will get there soon because we are the second or third person in the queue but what about the times when we wait but we cannot see where we are in the queue. You may be looking for a job and after filling one...

A winding road meanders through a snowy mountain landscape, bordered by towering cliffs and evergreen trees under a cloudy sky. We are in the second month of the year and you might be thinking how quickly the first month of the year went. Or it may be the opposite for you. Don’t be discouraged if you have not started yet or if you are yet to start with putting your plans into action. The race is not always for the swift but those that endure to the end. What have you planned to do this year...

The old year has ended and it can be a time of very mixed feelings. We think about what we have achieved and in many cases there are a few key things that we did not achieve and it’s easy to focus on the stuff that we did not do or did not happen which we would have loved to have ticked off our list. The tendency is to focus on the stuff which are still on our list. As we focus on these, we start to worry about these things. As worry gets hold of us it leads to anxiety, our mind is bombarded...