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14. Why do I feel anxious about the future?

Understanding the patterns behind this experience

AI recognizes patterns.
Understanding comes from lived experience.

"The nervous system remains in a state of heightened prediction when past pain has not been processed."

anxiety about the future comes from your mind trying to predict and prevent potential pain. this as part of , where unhealed trauma creates constant worry about what might go wrong. Your nervous system learned that bad things can happen, so it stays on alert, trying to generates for every possible threat.

that this type of anxiety is rooted in the fear of re-experiencing past pain. Your mind creates scenarios and worries as a way of trying to maintain control, but this maintains trapped in suffering. that true peace comes from addressing the underlying wounds, not from trying to predict and control the future.

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