HOW TO TREAT STRESS AND ANXIETY

When your thoughts start to get out of control and just keep rolling and getting bigger, bigger, and scarier, it pulls you out of the present moment (mindfulness). Instead of letting your thoughts spiral, try this tell yourself (or your partner or friend); “I’m really stressed about money right now.” Nevertheless, I cannot do anything about it over the weekend or until I can sit down with my budget later.

I am going to put these thoughts away until I can focus on it and figure it out. "When you are experiencing anxiety, pause for a moment and instead of focusing on the tightening in your chest, the racing thoughts etc…Pay attention to your senses.

What can you smell right now? What are you hearing? What are you touching? Do not judge anything, just feel it and it can. You can do several things.

Stress and anxiety are a response to your thoughts that you are having about a situation. Most likely, if you are having a stressful response the thoughts that you are telling yourself are that you are not in control of the situation and something bad might happen to you—you are dealing with the unknown.

The first step to conquer this is to replace those thoughts with “I am in charge of my life and I can handle with ease anything that comes my way” (you can make up your own positive statement, that's what I say to myself The second thing to do is to focus on your breath). If you truly focus on breathing in and breathing out it is impossible to think about anything else. From there you practice staying in the moment. Therefore, if you are washing dishes, pay attention to the water, the dish soap, how clean things look. If you are walking the dog pay attention to how your feet feel on the pavement, what it smells like outside, what your dog’s tail is doing? If you start worrying about something, notice it and just bring your thoughts back to the present moment. Do this over and over and you will find that you have not been experiencing anxiety or stress. Practice makes perfect.

Another good ways to decrease anxiety and stress, by replacing those thoughts with positive in the moment it pops up. when there is nothing wrong and you are in charge. You can do this! I have lived with Anxiety my whole life. People advising me to "solve it, (get rid of it) made me even more anxious as it built an assumption that there's something wrong to be fixed.

 I am much more relaxed now since I have started accepting it as a given and started to incorporate it into my life style. Don't rush or be tight on time, live slow-mo, sleep enough, stay away from TV's news and meditate. At least, it works for me. What works for you might be different but I hope that I have managed to deliver the idea.

Well, perhaps start by actually trying to understand your emotions instead of avoiding them. There is something in our environment that your brain considers as danger and that’s why you are stressed and almost in every case this “danger” in modern society is actually miscommunication between your emotions, thoughts and reality. It’s actually not that hard but it does take time and practice. Oh yea, it might actually be emotionally painful as well but better to deal with the pain when you are only stressed than to deal with the emotions when you are in a depression right?

Some basics—Mediation, exercise, journal about your emotions, go seek professionals, read books about emotions. Bonus material: your stress and anxiety is not your enemy. It’s trying to help you. Don’t fight it. Rather make friends with it. Identify if your stress and anxiety is related to specific issues e.g. social anxiety. This can give you some measure of control about when you are likely to feel stressed or anxious. You can then consider if you can take progressive steps to deal with those situations.

Having a balanced lifestyle can also help you manage your stress e.g. sleep, exercise eating healthily, hobbies etc.Learning to breathe correctly to manage your anxiety, Sometimes you need to be told to love yourself. Sometimes you just need to talk, by efficiently handling work. Stress can be reduced if you plan your day out. Keep time for relaxing. Don't overload yourself. Accept the fact that there will be something that you will not be able to accomplish.

So prioritize and get work done accordingly. Have self- confidence and belief that you can get things done. Also be proud about yourself when you go to bed at night. Always know that you have a chance to better yourself tomorrow. So never pressurize yourself to that extent. You'll do good if you stay motivated.