How To Overcome Anxiety - Expert Suggestions

By Paul H. Gray


Anxiety and fear are very common these days and that is mainly a result of a stressful way of living and lack of love. People look for various tips to overcome anxiety and they are encouraged to do so. While there are many medications that will treat anxiety and help you relieve such feelings, taking them is not advised because they leave bad consequences and they don't treat the cause of anxiety at all but rather only hide the problem. The moment you stop taking these pills, anxiety returns in even greater strength simply because there are many feelings that have been stuffed down during the medical treatment and now want to come up to the surface again.
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Anxiety disorder comes in various terms such as panic attacks, anxiety disorder, and agoraphobia. Those who are suffering from it know they have a problem and are wondering about how to overcome anxiety in general.To know the solution, it is important to understand it first. Anxiety is a condition where in a person suffers from intense feeling of fear. This causes grave mental and emotional stress. There are several ways to cope with anxiety attacks such as the following:

Control your thoughts. Anxiety is heightened by negative thoughts. When you always expect the worse, your fear overpowers you. As much as possible, develop a more positive outlook in life. Start the day with positive thoughts and expectations even if you are not sure of what awaits you.Talk about it. Spill all your crazy wonderings to someone you trust and discuss your anxieties as well. As the saying goes, "a problem shared is a problem halved." When this happens, deal with the 50%. Anxiety cannot be eliminated fully but a little amount is tolerable.

I believe all of us know how is it like when we compare ourselves with other people and feel that we are not good enough. Such kind of thinking is the most powerful fuel for feelings of anxiety because it puts us under a great deal of stress. We believe that we must somehow become better looking, or more successful or better in any other way so that people will like us. If we cannot manage to attain that, we feel depressed and inadequate to the society.We should understand that we are perfect and whole beings and are not supposed to feel any other way. The illusion that we somehow need to acquire this emotional fulfillment from the outside and show a particular image to the world is manly taught by our dear media and society.

Our Attempts to Hide Under the Mask.We try to put on all kinds of masks so that world will like us. But the world doesn't care at all, because the whole world does the same thing and tries to show a perfect image to the rest of the world. Nobody notices how someone else really looks like, or feels like or who that person really is.We only notice how we look like compared to them and whether we are better or worse than them. We try to see what makes them "apparently" better from use so that we will begin to wear such mask ourselves. Very few people actually see what lies behind clothes and career and this is a serious problem in the nowadays society.

Control your thoughts: Anxiety is created by the mind. Negative thoughts will get your mind to remember pass experiences where you felt bad or fearful, you will also create in your mind bad experiences that have not yet happened. You need to learn to control your negative thoughts you can do this by recognising when you are doing this. Change your thinking and focus on something more positive. Also see the outcome of your situation in a positive light.Bad Feelings work as a fuel to the anxiety that you have. Try to gain little self discipline and never allow your negative emotions get over you. There may be some need for you to generate emotional level detachment.

Nature and Some Quality Time.Another tip is to spend more time in the nature as well as spend more time with yourself doing the things that you truly love to do. But do not isolate yourself from the world. Isolation may also make you feel anxious, so make sure that you leverage your time and spend enough time with yourself and enough quality time with your friends and then do the rest.

Be Active.Moreover, be active, both mentally and physically. Take part of the activities you will truly enjoy and don't do them just for the sake of doing them. It may be a very good idea that you begin to be creative and start with any kind of project that will create something great for your future. This may be financial independence or even emotional freedom.Make sure that you work for your independent and bright future and work on your inner expansion as well and don't just live for the sake of eating, drinking, sleeping, working, and reproducing. Animals do that as well, but we are given a much higher intellect and unlimited power of creativity so that we can evolve much more from the primitive way of living.

Approaches.Depending on what causes your anxiety symptoms, you can choose to treat it using conventional approach such as with medication, or with natural approach. You may want to start with natural treatment to avoid risks of side effects that usually accompany medication. Some medications can be addictive, and combined with the anxiety disorder and compulsion, some medications may become a stress activated agent also.Besides, as mentioned earlier not all anxiety disorders are medical-related. Usually, the trigger is stress and all you need to overcome the condition is to learn how to manage your stress. Some of the ways you can manage your stress, and therefore reduce or eliminate your anxiety, are to carry out relaxation techniques as well as to do simple yet regular exercises.

Exercise on regular basis and keep your body healthy. The approach is a good method to stay away from the anxiety and the fears that you might have. Exercise releases natural chemicals in our body that make us feel good. Your appearance will improve as will your energy levels making you feel great.Always try to find the reasons to smile. There are many ways of keeping yourself entertained and you should defiantly try to do this in order to make yourself get rid of anxiety.Try to memorize the happy incidents that have occurred in your life, think about the people who make you laugh and are most important to you. Visualize positive things and keep your conversations positive as well. Cut out people who are constantly moaning and sapping your energy.




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