PSYCH 101

She’s been married to the same guy for 25 years, and now Elaine Viets, a columnist for United Feature Syndicate, takes a look at the subject in print.

* “What is anxiety? It is a message from the mind that warns that danger lurks and a feeling of wanting to respond to that message. What is anxiety not? It is not our master, but our servant.”

* “Once you begin to consider the possibility that life’s crises serve as agents of our mental, emotional, and spiritual education, then the fact that crises are inevitable will not be so anxiety provoking.”

* “There is no such thing as green or orange. There is only electromagnetic radiation, vibrating at a certain frequency. . . . Perception and what we call ‘reality’ are co-influential. When the Calm Mind is doing the perceiving, one sees the world as a different sort of place.”

* “Indeed, just like Dorothy of Oz, you have had the power to go ‘home’ all along. You just haven’t known it.”