1st Week October 20th Recognizing and Understanding Anxiety

In this session we need to separate the fact that everyone has at one time or
another a degree of fear worry etc but these do not necessarily mean anxiety -
anxiety starts when these symptoms begin to affect us deeply and affect the
quality of our life and the way we live it. 
 Start with how the world understands anxiety as a accepted way to recognize
anxiety
Then to understand anxiety we move to our Buddhist thought.
Here we can introduce the following Buddhist concepts that are at the heart of
anxiety: 
 
 Uncontrolled mind 
 Delusions 
 Self-directed anger 
 Attachment to the fulfilment of our own wishes 
 Self-cherishing