Dealing with anxiety..??

Many people find it hard to keep their stress, anxiety, nervousness, and tension under control. If anxiety or worry feels like too much to deal with, it can be a sign of anxiety disorder. Anxiety can be a real joy killer for your life. Putting mental health first by dealing with anxiety might sound unattainable to mind-disturbed people. However, below are a few hacks to deal with your anxiety and stress.

Most of the time, when anxiety hits you, you don’t even understand what is passing to you. It will start becoming a normal cycle, which you will start getting adjusted to. Ultimately, you will start considering it is as normal.

Self-realization is the key to face your anxiety. Know what you are going through. Acknowledge your concerns. The concerns might include persistent, excessive, and unreliable worrying about anything and everything. Write down your daunting fears. This can help you get your anxiety out of your head. When you write down about what makes you anxious, you tend to feel more relaxed.

What you are going through is completely fine. There is nothing to be embarrassed neither about anxiety nor depression. When you feel anxious take a few cleansing breaths. Taking a couple of diaphragmatic breaths through the nose and letting it out through mouth at regular intervals can work in the long run. You can also set a breathing alarm to never miss out on your breathing breaks. Mediating for a few hours daily can be helpful for people dealing with anxiety. Apart from that, mini-meditations can also be a stress buster during your busy schedule. The best thing about mini-meditation is that it can be done on a train or while walking down the street or at an airport while waiting for your flight or even when you are in an elevator.

Besides meditations, doing yoga or walking every day can help you too. Anxiety can be controlled to a large extent when you divert your focus from mind to your body.

Negative thoughts have the energy to worsen the situation. You can face the condition by challenging your negative thoughts. Talkback to your fears. Ask them whether they exist or not. Once you continue to do this, you will understand there is a point where you can take back the control. So instead of increasing your negative thoughts by overthinking, you can talk back to your fears and take control. This is going to be a long journey, but you will find the light at the end of the tunnel, for sure.

Aromatherapy helps in activating certain receptors in the brain which is believed to have the potential to lessen anxiety. So lighting scented candles, incense sticks, or diffusing scents like lavender, sandalwood etc. in any form can be soothing to your mind and help you relax a bit.

Millions of people out there live with an anxiety disorder. Although these statistics won’t solve your problem, you should know that you are not alone. You should know that your health is important and there are people out there willing to help you no matter what. And it is completely ok to put you first, at least at times. Be easy on yourself and start sharing your opinions with the right people. The set of right people might include parents, friends, spouses and more importantly medical help. Don’t ever let anything consume you. Not even ANXIETY. Because YOU ARE IMPORTANT.

To cope with anxiety, you can also try focusing on a particular object, repeating a mantra, closing your eyes for a while and even going to a happy places, it will help you relieve your stress. You must follow a healthy daily routine with exercise and diet which includes supplements like green tea, ashwagandha, dark chocolate, lemon balm, omega-3 fatty acids and valerian root. Above all, talk to a counselor or psychiatrist for practical remedies and help.