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each week we explore the ideas and practices that help us live this healthy, connected,

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holistically well. Just go to Onecommun.com. Anxiety is a modern epidemic. Studies online suggest that anxiety afflicts 40 million Americans,

but honestly that feels like an underestimate. Anxiety is your body's response to stress,

a feeling of fear or apprehension about what's to come. Now there are many sources of anxiety from the passing nervousness of

a job interview or a trip to the doctor to the more chronic stress that can be associated with

economic insecurity. Our egoic mind wants to assert complete control over our lives. It seeks to

incessantly eliminate uncertainty. The mind will

take past experiences and project them into the future as a means of allaying this uncertainty.

However, this tendency can actually raise levels of anxiety because much of life is simply

uncertain.

Additionally, in modern life, there seems to be new forces at play that are contributing to unprecedented levels of stress.

The interplay between consumerism, social media, and the endless sanctification of the individual

may be one place to look.

We live in a highly commodified social structure that incessantly tries to convince us that

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