When you are gripped by anxiety and it's paralyzing claws, the idea of banishing it from your life sure sounds liberating. Whether your anxiety is only mildly interfering with your ability to make decisions or whether it's a full blown anxiety that leads to panic attacks, the fact remains that you and only you are in control of your mind.

Before you can achieve any mental or emotional healing, you need to realize that you are the solution. As long as you are looking for a solution "out there" and hoping that someone else will do it "for you" you will remain stuck.

Your mind is incredibly powerful. After all it is powerful enough to create the anxiety in you in the first place? While it was created (mostly) unconsciously, you were still in control. No one planted it in your mind. Although this might sound like a dis-empowering idea, it is really the opposite. If you created it, you can un-create it.

This is a very important fact for banishing anxiety and fear from your life. In his new bestseller Excuses Begone, Dr. Wayne Dyer offers a very insightful explanation of where these anxiety and habits of mind come from. He also offers a very simple method for getting rid of it.

It all boils down to one simple fact:

Do not believe everything you think.

You thoughts are only that. They are thoughts and whether you believe it one way or another, either way you will be right. By simply starting to analyze your anxious thoughts you can start to see just how much you've been lying to yourself. As you start seeing your old thoughts in a new way, you will start to banish anxiety and create new and empowering thoughts that's more in line with your true nature and your desire for a full life where you are no longer gripped by thoughts of falsehood.

Start by doing it with each and every one of the things you feel anxious about. Take them one by one and ask yourself "how is this not true?" - as you analyze these ideas more closely you will start to create doubt and the doubt is all you need to start adopting a new belief that will empower you instead of keeping you locked up in fear and anxiety.