Anxiously congruent: congruently anxious

摘要

S?ren Kierkegaard proposed that it is our capacity for despair and anxiety that makes us human. He suggested that despair is an indication of our capacity to be more than we currently are. We feel anxiety and despair because our potentiality is always greater than our actuality, when our living process is blocked or frustrated. As long as we are not all that we can be we are anxious, whether we are aware of it or not. Even without our existential anxiety we have reason enough to be anxious. We experience cosmic anxiety, political-social anxiety, environmental anxiety. The world is not in a good way. We may try to separate our awareness from our experience, through our various techniques of denial, but our organism knows better, and our denial only increases our stress. Congruence involves coming out of denial, and being open to our organismic anxiety