How do you turn anxiety into faith?

Question

How do you turn anxiety into faith?

Answer 1

By believing that things are going to happen for the best, instead of worrying that the worst will happen. By keeping yourself busy during the waiting period instead of worrying. By doing your best, and not questioning your best. By believing that things always work out, and even if they don't, its most often than not for the best if you can stop looking at the closed door since another one which led to much better things was opened for you. So why worry?

Answer 2

Realize first that anxiety is a feeling (fear, dread), and faith is a decision or belief.

Anxiety occurs when you perceive a threat ("There's a snake on my bed.").

Faith is a decision (we decide to believe) and has an Object.  Faith at its best has God as its object; its foundation for believing the faith will work. ("Have faith in God" Jesus said; Mark 11:22).

"How do you turn anxiety into faith?" You see something that worries you scares you, you can pray something like this: "God I see that which might come and hurt me, but I choose to believe you will take care of me and that it will not be a problem.  In Jesus' Name"--That's a Christian version.  NEXT, you hang onto that prayer.  Maybe write it down and pray it every morning.

Answer 3

It doesn't work like that.

Faith is the means with which one can heal anxiety, Anxiety is not the means with which one can acheive faith.

Unless, of course, there is the exception of the pleasant surprise.

In which case, you can indeed turn anxiety into faith, but the means to do it are entirely outside of your control.

However, to be faithful, one must find something that one can believe in, be it oneself, one's environment, one's experiences, or even something as simple and seemingly worthless as a concept.

If you have faith in a concept, then that concept can be made a reality.

But that's not pertinent to you, sorry.