James Collier: Overcoming Anxiety

When one is limited to do so, he is putting himself out on the line to make him anxious or afraid. If he wanted to stand up and face his fears all he would have to do is embrace them. Eliminating one’s anxiety will allow one to embrace his obstacles. For instance, when Phil Hansen embraced his shake by making his artwork more different than usual. Also, when James Collier was anxious, embracing but he hesitated and then actually agreed to do the assignment. Hansen embracing his shake, Collier progressively gets better with anxiety, how I embraced a certain moment and overcome my anxiety to a certain point.
By embracing the shake, Phil Hansen was extremely creative with his artwork. With having his handshake he was having a hard time. His hand

would cramp up and he would have these pains. The doctors looked at his shake and they said, “Embrace the shake.” Hansen then went home and actually started to embrace the shake. Let alone, Hansen said, “When I embrace the shake I realized I could still make art, but find a different way to approach it.” For instance, by Hansen embracing the shake he likes to build his own artwork but then he destroys it. When Hansen made Jimi Hendrix out of matches and then making him feel better he burned it after he built it. In addition to his artwork, Hansen would rather use his chest and stomach as a canvas much less on a canvas itself. When he painted the pictures on his chest and stomach. Each picture represented an influence in his life. The more Hansen embraced the shake he made more amazing artwork. On the other hand, Hansen struggled, but managed to keep art in his life. Although Hansen embraced one of his obstacles, James Collier had a hard time with anxiety.
People learn and grow by confronting, not backing away from situations that make them anxious.

One can always learn from their anxiety, by not backing down to the situation and just face them. Therefore, James Collier had some challenges for his anxiety, but he had progressed. He was learning from his anxiety to make him better, to control it. In fact, Collier said, “You can’t learn if you don’t try.” When Collier had been in college one of his roommates wanted him to go with him to a ranch in Argentina. Collier began to think, he has never been to far from New England. Day after day he began to have night sweats he didn’t know what was going to happen on this trip. He eventually turned it down. On the other hand, he went back to his old job and realized that he turned it down going to a ranch because of the fact he got scared. In the event of Collier not taking the trip to Argentina in years. Years had passed Collier had been offered a writing assignment that would require three months in Europe. He began to think and he didn’t know his way around Europe. He didn’t know about their culture and don’t know how to speak the language. Collier began to over think about the assignment and ended up accepting the trip. Collier came back from the trip to Europe. He had learned that he is an experienced traveler. For that being Collier never hesitated to head to any other place. As a result of Phil embracing the shake and Collier not being anxious anymore. I have had an embracing

moment and where my anxiety became a problem.
When I embraced a moment with that time being. I was learning to paint galaxies with Austin. She had taught me to paint with a paint brush and the main colors that one has to use. Which are black and dark vibrant colors. When I first started, I could not use the paint brush to paint the galaxy, I was so about to quit, until I had a great idea to help me save my problem. I have taken and old sponge and then I realized that I have done it in a way that I love. I embraced painting to my own unique way. Because I embraced a moment I had overcame my anxiety. When I got into my first wreck I became so nervous that I thought I was going to get in trouble. I thought to myself that I was going to get sued for wrecking. Turns out the lady I ran into was really nice and trying to calm me down. She told me that,” I have been in your situation before, it’s okay, take a deep breath.” When the officer came, he was nice and then he gave me a ticket for riding to close. Embracing a moment and getting over ones anxiety can become a little difficult.
Given these points being limited to do certain objects can be a struggle. Trying to face those obstacles can make one extremely anxious and just try to embrace them. Find the solution to the problem. Having to embrace the shake Phil Hansen found a solution to make his artwork unique. James Collier was anxious and then learned from it. One can face their obstacles by controlling what’s going on and take a few deep breaths they tend to help.