Hi Davit,
re: may 4 post re financial squeeze.
I honestly suspect we are hard wired to worry if we think we are not going to have our basic needs met. It makes sense that we would, in an evolutionary sense. Not to discount that it happens but that it stands to reason that there is a logic to it. I lived at different levels of poverty and abundance throughout my life. I find that as long as I know that my food, clothing, shelter needs are able to be met I am fine. When I start to feel like they are under threat, I feel anxious.
Money that I make on top of what we need to eat and be warm in winter etc.. makes me feel good, but it feels like a game at that point of "oh what will we do with this money we have left over after we've eaten" sort of thing. I am not expressing this very well this morning. My understanding of the research on this is that once people's basic needs are met , income doesn't increase our happiness level. I have experienced that first hand.
Your post reminded me of that. You are working the earth to obtain food, and that connects to a very primal aspect of our humanity - the ability to eat and feed ourselves. If we worry we don't have the means to do that, it is hard not to feel anxious.
I consider myself lucky actually that I lived hand to mouth and poor for some years. I know people who never had those experiences and they feel anxious if they can't go on a trip next winter or something. Not to judge, just to say that for me, as long as there is food in the cupboard, I don't panic about finances and I consider that a gift of living poor in that I got back in touch with my basic needs and my understanding that all those other things in life we think we "need" are not needs at all, just wants. I guess to answer your question, I stay in touch with the feelings around basic needs. I am very lucky these days not to worry about food, clothing or shelter needs not being met. I wish we lived in a more communal culture so we could help each other with those things and relieve the anxiety for anyone who ever has to feel panicked about those basic needs getting met. It would be great to live in a world where no one every worried about being warm, safe and fed each night. wouldn't it? our culture is causing a lot of undue anxiety. but that is drifting into another type of thread i think :)