Listener question: 

Clare, 
I have three of your books, I listen to your podcasts and I have watched some of your videos. Yet I cannot work out how to live a life that is not dominated by negative thinking, anxiety and occasional panic...

....these thoughts were like the straw that broke the camel’s back with all the other shit in my life.  I’m waiting for an appointment with a consultant. So I don’t feel well. I feel shit actually. I need to decorate some of my house but don’t feel well enough. I work long shifts that are very tiring and I look after someone some of the week. I sometimes feel that I just cannot cope with it ‘all’. 

 It ALL. Is it really so much? Someone else might just cope with this stuff like water of a duck’s back, right?

I try my circuit breakers (your podcast on this was great) . Meditation. Trying some exercise, wine, beer, food, etc and of course it doesn’t work. How could it? But I cannot grasp this ‘isness’ that you speak of underneath all this shit... How can I? Obviously not on the level of the mind. I listen, but I will never understand on that level, will I?

 I know on the level of thought that this is like living in the Dream... But how do yo free yourself from this ?

 How do you do it?