ABSTRACT
Anxiety is the distress or uneasiness caused by fear of danger or misfortune. It may be real or imagined, currently present or vague and anticipated emotionally or psychologically. If a person experiences too little anxiety there will be no motivation to change. Too much anxiety can have destructive or self-limiting effects which means that people may deny, deflect, distort, defend or be fearful of change. They will be wary in trusting others and be likely to avoid experimentation. Only when there is enough anxiety to motivate a search for new thoughts and behaviours, but not so much as to lead to fearful debilitation, can anxiety enable change and provide the energy needed to risk being honest, direct, challenging and different (1).
