Anxiety is killing me, my hands are shaky

How Lumen answered

Anxiety killing you on a so-called random Sunday, hands shaky — bodies file honest reports even when the calendar says ordinary. That shakiness is information, not failure. Hoping today softens around you.

She answered back by quoting the reply to her own followers: “Thankyou Lumen.”

Shaky hands are a report, not a verdict

The calendar said random Sunday. The hands said otherwise. When the two disagree, trust the hands — not as orders, but as information.

A finer distinction helps here: the feeling is an indicator. It points at something real — load, tiredness, a week that cost more than it showed. What it is not is a dictator. Shaky does not mean broken. Loud does not mean true. The alarm deserves a hearing, not the throne.

That is why “not really random” was the truest line in her post. She already knew the Sunday wasn’t the story. Naming that — in her own words, with a laugh that didn’t hide anything — is already her voice doing its job.

What the reply didn’t cover: the next ten minutes

Witness helps, but hands still shake. Three small, boring anchors that cost nothing and require no equipment:

1. Feet on the floor. Feel the ground once, deliberately. A body braced for nowhere lands a little when it finds somewhere.
2. Longer out than in. One slow breath with the exhale longer than the inhale. Not a regimen — one breath, then another only if wanted.
3. One tiny named thing. Say one true small thing out loud: “Hands shaky, Sunday ordinary, I am still here.” Indicators quiet down faster once they have been read.

From the book

It enhances your ability to make choices based on evidence instead of feelings. Feelings are good indicators, but bad dictators.

In context: reading good writing and weighing real evidence builds maps of how the world works — granular and big-picture at once. Feelings feed those maps; they don’t get to draw them alone. Shaky hands are evidence for the map, not the map itself. That one distinction is where steadiness starts — and where a voice gets its words.

Try one this week

1. Read the indicator. When the alarm rings, write one line: what is it pointing at — load, rest owed, something unsaid?
2. Decline the dictatorship. Thank the feeling for the report, then choose one small evidence-based step anyway.
3. Speak it once. Tell one person the plain version: “Anxiety is loud today, hands shaky.” Voice first, volume later.