Summary: Speaker: Wendy Conquest. Wendy reflects on how she gained a deeper understanding of the root causes of a life-long experience of anxiety, and how she applied the Dharma to work with it. During the pandemic, engaging in new and challenging service to the sangha heightened her tendency to be anxious and to worry, and led her to resolve to re-examine the assumption that this habit was a sign of conscientiousness. The realization that it was actually a form of suffering generated by self-clinging led her to contemplate how to apply the Dharma to overcome this obstacle. By applying the antidotes of self-reflection, mindfulness, vigilant introspection, and supplication, she was able to cultivate more awareness and equanimity and appreciation for the sangha and for the benefit of service to it.
