Being 'stuck'...

No strategy can ever help us become free from anxiety (or any other neurotic condition). We can't fight our way to freedom, we can never get so good at manipulation as to no longer NEED to manipulate (or control). The ego-concept is big on striving / controlling and what it is essentially trying to do here is to FREE itself from the need to keep on struggling and striving and scheming (because all of this is so terribly wearisome). What it doesn't (and CAN'T) understand is that it can't exist independently of its own striving (since struggling and scheming is how it creates itself, is how it gets to keep on 'existing').