Anxiety is a strange thing, I guess it has its place and that most people are able to keep it in perspective. But for some of us as some point in our lives anxiety hits hit like running into a brick wall. Whatever it was that caused our initial anxiety, the external influence such as money worries or feelings of low self worth most often brought on by our societies view that in order to be someone you have to be a fully functioning cog in its great machine. Whatever perceived external event or feeling or thought can become so intense that it forces our body to think we are in physical danger and releases lots of chemicals into our blood stream, a throw back to when frequent physical danger was a reality.
In our modern society all these chemicals released into our bloodstream at times of high anxiety only serve to make feel ill, shaky hands, dizzy, racing heart, feeling nauseous, IBS to name but a few. And the really terrible thing is when we start to focus on these feelings that we initially brought about by some external or internal trigger. That's when it all goes up a gear, the initial trigger is no longer the issue, the issue now is the feelings brought on by the chemicals we released into our body, and to make it worse the more we focus on these awful feelings the more chemicals are released.
For some it passes relatively quickly and then can return to a normal-ish existence, until the next trigger event. For others it can be a daily nightmare that stops you from functioning, afraid to to anything that may possibly trigger and attack.
It seems the only way to really and truly get on top of this terrible condition to first of all recognize the feelings for what they really are, a construct of your mind. Fear of the feelings brought on by the trigger event. Even if we cannot identify the trigger event as it may be a subconscious thought process, a bad thought habit learned over a long period of time, we can recognize the symptoms. And, with practice and patience we can disarm these feelings, we can nullify the effects they have on our body so that eventually when we have an anxiety trigger event we can automatically respond in a calm way that stops it ever getting out of hand.
So, know that the feelings will pass, they have before and will again
Know that it is just your body releasing crazy chemicals and if you accept this and let it do its thing without you freaking out about how the chemicals are making you feel, if you can just let yourself go with it, it will eventually stop releasing the chemicals your body thinks there is no longer anything to freak out about.
Know that your nervous system does not know the difference between reality (external events) and imaginary events. This is a powerful concept, fully understanding this greatly empowers you, as you know it is just your thoughts and fears causing the anxiety and panic and all the out of control feelings
Know that to feel how you do means you are an intelligent, sensitive and thoughtful person, it's just that somewhere along the way some wires in your subconscious have become crossed. It will take a little time and patience to re-wire your subconscious so that it understands that the feelings are anxiety and worry and stress are actually normal human feelings, not something to dwell on or be afraid of, just something that passes over you and that you can let go of without obsessing about how the feelings make you feel.
Don't dwell on how your feelings are making you feel
Don't dwell on the past it is gone, done, over, regrets serve no purpose other than to make you feel bad.
Don't dwell on the future, on what may or may not happen. Sure, make plans, have ideas, but don't obsess with what if thinking. it serves no purpose other than to get those anxiety chemical flowing in your body.
Be Positive, look at the here and now. Be grateful for even the smallest of things, a flower, the sun, the pattern of the clouds.
Really try to live in the moment, meditate, read books listen to meditation guides.
Your a special person, so full of emotion and intelligence and passion, you just need to reprogram/re-wire your subconscious a little, to know that you have nothing to fear.
You have the brain power to make your nervous system release chemicals that make you feel bad, therefor you have the brain power to make yourself feel good.
You are safe within yourself.
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