CNN health | The School of Life presents: Forget finding happiness, instead find peace with anxiety

(CNN)  What most of us long for above all else is ‘security’, the sense that we are — at last — safe on the earth. We pin our hopes for security on a shifting array of targets: a happy relationship, a house, children, a good profession, public respect, a certain sum of money… When these are ours, we fervently believe, we will finally be at peace. We may mock the term ‘happily ever after,’ synonymous as it is with naive children’s literature but in practice, we do indeed tend to live as if we could one day, somewhere over the horizon, reach a place of rest, satisfaction and safety. —more—