How To Quell Anxiety And Live Well With It
We live in a highly stressful environment (why of course), amid increased patterns of fast-paced city living, technological developments and heightened sensitivities. There will be frequent days when we get uneasy and overwhelmed. And no doubt about it the panic bug will all hit us at some point, to which baffling relapses will take a few more swings often than ever before. The anxiety we encounter in the face of uncertainties and unpredictabilities in life including pressing demands of circumstantial resolutions can immensely peeve and exhaust us. So how do we save ourselves? Here are a few tips (not going to impart the sublime art of breathing in and out slowly.)
Acknowledge And Acquaint Your Worst Fears and Anxieties
The first initial step. Accept all the doldrums that comes with your bagged up fears and anxieties. Don’t fight them. See them as friends to get to know, an ally, someone closer than you think. Fighting off anxiety only makes you repelled towards it, creating a wider distance and marking it off as alien. ANXIETY IS THERE, yes, yes, yes. Using Three Yes-es, confirm that you have detected, are aware and have encountered the anxiety. Then simply accept that it is here for a reason of guiding you to safe action. See that frightfully thrilling rollercoaster? Its actually pretty fun and cool to get on !
anxiety can be your friend.
If You Can’t Acknowledge The Anxiety, Avoid The Anxiety Situation (For A brief while.)
Now, I’m not persuading you to run away at every difficult situation (don’t be an easily bruised strawberry!). However, in certain direly tense situations, you may want to avoid the deathly gallows altogether and skip the attempt to accept the encounter. How do you know if some circumstances significantly calls for a direct flee? Size up the anxiety situation in a minute by rating it a 8/10 or 9/10 out of anxiety levels. Once its an 8 or 9, it’s time to get out of it for awhile either by excusing yourself from school or work for a few minutes, hours or a day if absolutely required. Take that breather to strategise on your next move. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not recommending you to be lazy inexplicably resigning or surrendering to your fate when dealt a bad hand in life.
Unabashedly, Get Into Self-Love Version 2.0
After anxiety submission and acceptance, it is a deserving primer you take time-off from your mundane duties and responsibilities, where you switch into Self-Love Version 2.0. This means doing all the things you never got to do during busy periods, or interests you never got around to enjoy. You could also prepare an Anxiety Emergency Case for yourself containing your favourite things and stuff to do when you are indeed stressing out. Special things work wonders during this time, such as single-estate tea bags and coffee, limited edition books and games, quality yoga meditation guides, and even a year-long membership card to an exclusive spa. Otherwise, even the most basic activities you enjoy often (journaling like manybody else) can help to take your mind off overthinking and the tremors of anxiety scenarios. Another quick trick is to go away somewhere quiet (it could be a favourite corner in the office or home) and close your eyes for a few seconds, mindfully listening to your heartbeat beat by beat and then sipping a cup of piping hot tea slowly until your mood changes and the anxiety sensation comes to a standstill. You can even inhale the steam from the tea and watch the condensation on the cup forming.
See Anxiety As A Damn Routine You Gotta Live With
A great way to counter anxiety in the long term is to perceive anxiety as a routine you just gotta get on and over with, as events that keep occurring and the need to resolve it frequently in banal measure. In that way, anxiety is not so much of the unknown and unfamiliar, but a repeated scenario you have gone through and appropriated corrective actions to fix it before. Besides, the confidence from acting on a routine “ANXIOUS” episode will develop overtime, and it is this confidence that will allow anxiety to be a friendlier mate. You can imagine your anxiety case to an incoming bus or train which you have to hop on sooner or later in order to go places as part of the daily commute.
anxiety,
just another call.
Tackle At The Root Of Your Anxiety (tactfully)
Once you have gathered sufficient resources for anxiety coping, you may want to tackle the root of your anxiety right away. Analyse what causes your anxiety. Even some answers and solutions to issues at hand can add to your anxiety because they may not be the best remedy yet. Sit down and recollect all events happening around that is distressing. Is it those irksome dirty floors that you have been wanting to clean but couldn’t find the time and energy to get it done after a long day? For some others, it could be bullies in school awaiting principal punishment or a police report if severe. If you are dealing with low self-esteem due to weight problems, you may want to embark on a natural approach to diet and weight loss instead of consuming slimming pills from bogus sources and plastic surgery. Find out what is truly bothering you and think of the most effective way to eliminate the bugging misery.
refrain from The maddening complex multi-tasking (if you can.)
Already leading busy lives with countless responsibilities coupled with so many other varied tasks on hand to accomplish as much as you can, is disastrous. I term this the paradox of multi-tasking monstrosity. Humans were never made to multi-task, at least not for long, because how else to focus on what is important to focus on? Check out why human brains weren’t made to multi-task here. If you are on an anxiety attack already, please prioritise over multi-tasking, as prioritising allows more productivity once you know how to allocate and deploy your time in the most efficient way without wasting your brain’s resources and sacrificing your psychological wellbeing. If you absolutely need to multi-task complex tasks, perform a maximum of two tasks at one go so your mind can keep count.
the system hangs.
Talk To Friends, Family and bundle in a good laugh as well
In the tumultuous face of anxiety, staying connected, having solid and sturdy friendships with people whom you care matters. Chatting up with friends and family, while having a blast in rolling stocks of laughter can de-sensitise your sensitive dark moods to deliver positive changes to your temperament. Works all the time. Once, I had a conversation with a dear neighbour who had the worst day of her life as she relayed the terrible events unfolding in a bad hair day to me. Although she was not in the mood for jokes, she seemed to be in lighter spirits illuminating the day’s ridicule and weird offences in the ostentaciously mean people met as I patiently listened to her describe. While we spoke, we exchanged smiles and laughters at the characters typified in our heads. In the end, as I left her house, both of us were cracking up like crackheads loaded. We had the best time. Although anxiety can isolate us to a point of despair, staying socially strong and bonding together builds unity, trust and hope to overcome ever daunting episodes.
