Self Help Anxiety
Helping yourself with your own anxiety is truly the most efficient way to treat anxiety and prevent panic attacks. There are many tools you can learn and utilize to lessen the severity of anxiety and over time, prevent anxiety and panic attacks all together.
The first major steps to helping yourself with anxiety is challenging your negative thoughts and accepting uncertainty. Nothing is certain, everyone worries sometimes, but worrying does nothing to help whatever it is that you are worrying about. When you have negative thoughts or start to feel anxious, ask yourself these questions: Is there a more positive way I can look at this situation? What would I say to someone else who had these worries or negative feelings/thoughts? Is worrying really helpful? How will worrying help me and how will it not help me?
The next big thing to help yourself with anxiety is to learn how to relax. There are many positive ways of doing this. Meditation, everyone meditates differently, find your own way of meditating. One basic idea of meditation is to think of nothing for a certain period of time (10-30 minutes). Imagine that you are staring at an aquarium full of beautiful fish, and each time a thought comes into your head, that thought is one of the fish on the other side of the aquarium glass, the thought cannot reach you during this time. Yoga is incredibly relaxing and good for all parts of the body, mind and soul. You can practice yoga in your home by yourself or go to a yoga class; whatever you feel comfortable with. Deep breathing is one of the key roles to calming yourself down. When you feel anxious, you breathe faster or hyperventilate. Hyperventilation causes symptoms of feeling faint, feeling dizzy, feeling lightheaded, and others. Stretching or exercising is wonderful for anxiety and everything else too!
Get in touch with your body, knowing your body means that you can respond to your anxiety and help yourself in positive ways. Don’t be so hard on yourself; give yourself a break from work or the stresses of everyday life whenever you need it, even if it is just for 10 minutes. Prepare yourself for the situations that cause anxiety, and become more aware of what these situations are. Plan positive strategies for these situations, and pre plan relaxing breaks during these situations, if you are going to a party, go outside and breathe deeply for five minutes. Practice relaxation methods before going somewhere that causes anxiety for you. Know yourself, get in touch with yourself, find out all the reasons that cause your anxiety and help yourself by throwing everything that no longer serves you out the window!
If you feel anxiety coming on, help yourself by taking a breather, no matter where you are; work, school, on a date, asleep in bed or driving in your car. Pre planning is the best way to help yourself to prevent anxiety or at the very least, greatly lessen the symptoms of anxiety. Plan bathroom breaks at school or work, set your alarm on your cell phone so that it looks like you need to be excused from the table at dinner with your date. If you are driving, pull over, put the seat back, close your eyes and meditate. If you wake up in the middle of the night panicking; breathe, stretch, stay calm, meditate, listen to a calming meditation tape, or calming music. Finding your own groove and finding out what works (and what doesn’t work) for you is what you can do for yourself and your anxiety.
The next big thing to help yourself with anxiety is to learn how to relax. There are many positive ways of doing this. Meditation, everyone meditates differently, find your own way of meditating. One basic idea of meditation is to think of nothing for a certain period of time (10-30 minutes). Imagine that you are staring at an aquarium full of beautiful fish, and each time a thought comes into your head, that thought is one of the fish on the other side of the aquarium glass, the thought cannot reach you during this time. Yoga is incredibly relaxing and good for all parts of the body, mind and soul. You can practice yoga in your home by yourself or go to a yoga class; whatever you feel comfortable with. Deep breathing is one of the key roles to calming yourself down. When you feel anxious, you breathe faster or hyperventilate. Hyperventilation causes symptoms of feeling faint, feeling dizzy, feeling lightheaded, and others. Stretching or exercising is wonderful for anxiety and everything else too!
Get in touch with your body, knowing your body means that you can respond to your anxiety and help yourself in positive ways. Don’t be so hard on yourself; give yourself a break from work or the stresses of everyday life whenever you need it, even if it is just for 10 minutes. Prepare yourself for the situations that cause anxiety, and become more aware of what these situations are. Plan positive strategies for these situations, and pre plan relaxing breaks during these situations, if you are going to a party, go outside and breathe deeply for five minutes. Practice relaxation methods before going somewhere that causes anxiety for you. Know yourself, get in touch with yourself, find out all the reasons that cause your anxiety and help yourself by throwing everything that no longer serves you out the window!
If you feel anxiety coming on, help yourself by taking a breather, no matter where you are; work, school, on a date, asleep in bed or driving in your car. Pre planning is the best way to help yourself to prevent anxiety or at the very least, greatly lessen the symptoms of anxiety. Plan bathroom breaks at school or work, set your alarm on your cell phone so that it looks like you need to be excused from the table at dinner with your date. If you are driving, pull over, put the seat back, close your eyes and meditate. If you wake up in the middle of the night panicking; breathe, stretch, stay calm, meditate, listen to a calming meditation tape, or calming music. Finding your own groove and finding out what works (and what doesn’t work) for you is what you can do for yourself and your anxiety.
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