My DBT leader & my T said that some anxiety IS NORMAL. It is our mind's way of telling us that we have a problem or situation we need to deal with. We would be in trouble if we didn't feel anxiety like this. Even people without mental illness issues feel anxiety. It is what we do with it that can create the problems. Nothing in the world is going to block that because even though it is no longer necessary for our survival it is necessary to tell us we have to perform some important task in the future.

When I had a performance on my flute....anxiety was NORMAL. It made me know that I had a performance coming up & that I needed to focus my attention on practicing for it. Mindfullnesz is more for bringing us back to realitg we we are needlessly worrying about something that really isn't important in our life....brings our focus back to what is really going on in our life now & putting it all together in perspective.

I personally don't do meditation. It does nothing for me.....but I do take time to focus on things that need my attention & how to handle them in a wisemind way