Anxiety is constructive when it alerts us to the presence of danger, but it becomes destructive when it decreases or deletes our capacity to differentiate between real and imaginary danger. Anxiety, like any other emotion we experience in our inner world, is essentially a conveyor of information—it tells us when there is danger in our lives. When anxiety becomes too intense, we may be unable to differentiate between anxiety caused by actual external threats and anxiety triggered by our imagination in overdrive. By differentiating between constructive and destructive anxiety, we can tap the power of anxiety.

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18.35 And that determination which cannot go beyond dreaming, fearfulness, lamentation, moroseness and illusion – such unintelligent determination, O son of Pṛthā, is in the mode of darkness.