We don’t need to be hard on ourself for feeling anxiety.   Of course, we all experience anxious minds from time to time.   Instead we can learn how to free ourself from from anxiety.

However, anxiety is hard on us.  It prevents us enjoying our life, drains our energy and affects our relationships.   Fortunately, through the kindness of Buddha’s teachings, we can gradually free ourself from anxious minds.   Eventually we can rid ourself completely of this mental habit.

How?  By understanding and training in the “antidotes to anxiety” – for example meditation, letting go of negativity, patient acceptance, understanding the mind and the wisdoms of karma and impermanence .  By putting these “antidotes” into practice we will overcome our anxiety habit as surely as other practitioners have done for thousands of years.

In this workshop you will also be introduced to the “Eight worldly concerns” – the worldly attitudes that feed our anxiety.  By identifying, reducing and finally eliminating these eight attachments altogether, we can free ourself completely from anxiety’s grip.  As we train in these methods in daily life, we may still feel anxious from time to time, but as a result of this workshop, we’ll know what “antidote” to apply.

“If we learn to control our mind through correct meditation we can overcome all our fear and anxiety. Nothing will frighten us.  Why is this?  Because all fear comes from the untamed mind”. – Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche