Hi electro sonic Welcome to the board,you are among friends here.I  suffer from anxiety and depression,as i have done for many years,and i remember when i attended these anxiety management courses,how many people were suffering from this,from all walks of life.

When we come on to this earth plain,we are spirit inside the physical body,and we all of us have to live our own pathway of life,and along this pathway,we come against obsticales,which are emotions and different experiences.

Our spirit has to feel lots of different emotions,and experiences,for our spiritual progression.We are learning all the time,while we are on this earth plain.

My Grandmother said to me ,when she was alive "that we all have to suffer sometimes in this life,as none of us can get away with it"and she was right,we all do suffer sometimes.

Is there a spiritualist church near you, as its a good way to start learning of spiritualism and also on here the afterlife as well.

Whatever you want to know about spirit and the afterlife,we are all here to
help, so keep writing on here.hope this has helped answer your question.

Love and God bless you Juditha

Hi ES-
I do clinical work, and occasionally trteat both panic attacks (these usually are fairly easy to reduce) and anxiety disorders (these are a bit trickier, but treatable). With a little effort you could probably find well trained hypnotherapists with regression experience in your part of the world, and with a little hard work get rid of most of the stuff that's bothering you, or at least reduce the level of bother. You might look under the IHF, ACHE, IARRT sites.

People initially seem to be sparks of life that emerge from God rather like sparks from a campfire, or like the different personalities that each of us manifests during the day. These initially occur as some kind of self-sustaining system of information that eventually gets caught up in a material nature. It seems that all dynamic systems, including human lives, are defined by cycles of manifestation. At the end of the cycle, the dynamic forces stop and the system ceases to define itself. (If it's a soul, it then reunites with God to the ability that it allows itself.) In this moment the contextual environment (which includes the "Cosmic Consciousness", or God force - whatever you want to call it) defines the system according to the residues of activity that were left over from its active [phase. That means that all the karmic crap we generate comes back as a definition of who and what we are. "Sin" is anything that is self-contradictory, like living through murdering, getting rich by stealing and impoverishing others etc. All the self contradictions fall off because they self-destruct. Then the soul tries to make sense out of the left over pieces, and generally tries desperately to resaolve the errors of the past life, sometimes even bringing terrible handicaps back into the world as a form of "self teaching". The bits and pieces of the prior life are then integrated as best it can and the system redefines itself as newly re-created.

The system now begins to manifest its nature in the beginning of a new life cycle. Eventually this incorporates enough materiality that it gets reborn, and here we go again! (Whoopee?) Any physical or mental issues that we bring upon ourselves can be thought of as ways in which we attempt to train ourselves into a better lifestyle. Some people are pretty hard on themselves! In those cases it is well to remember that these decisions are made while "standing naked in the presence of God", and represent heroic efforts to be loving and worthy. As Ecclesiastes put it, "Our greatest works turn out to be no more than filthy rags."

love
dave