Top 5 Tips to Manage Anxiety


by Arthur Buchanan - Date: 2007-03-29 - Word Count: 700 Share This!

Anxiety is a trait that affects most everyone in daily living. Anxiety can easily be caused by several different stressful situations that occur in our lives. This can be a result of several different factors. Several will produce anxiety when they are afraid of a situation that may mean a lot to them. Anxiety may also occur if someone associates a situation with a certain expectation. Often times, this can be associated with a traumatic occurrence that happened in the past. If you are feeling stressed or anxious about a situation, there are several ways to handle the problem. Here are five tips to help manage your anxiety.
1. Meditation


There are several different types of meditation that you can use in order to relieve your anxiety. Finding the right meditation is the key to helping you relax. Giving yourself time to be in silence and peace will help for your stressful situation to be relieved. One type of meditation is simply concentrating on your breath. However, if you feel the need, you can listen to accompanying music that helps to calm you down. Other types of meditation will use aromatherapies and other types of external sources that help to calm you. Meditation, no matter what form, is a great tool to help you feel balanced and ready to face the anxiety that may be bothering you.


2. Release energy
One of the ways to solve anxiety is to make sure that you are prepared to face whatever it is that is causing the anxiety. Picturing yourself in the situation and seeing an outcome that is positive will help to release the anxiety. Writing in a journal before the occurrence may also help relieve some of the pressure. Many times, physical activities can also help in making you more calm and prepared. Taking a walk, for example, will help to release the extra pressures that you are feeling. Any type of activity that will allow you to release energy or face it in a positive way can help your anxiety level to lower.


3. Breathe
If you are in an area where you won't have time to meditate or allow yourself to release energy, then reminding yourself to calm down may help. Counting to ten is one of the methods that are often referred to. You can also remember to concentrate on breathing deeply while you are in the situation. This automatically allows your body to slow down, causing the anxiety level to decrease.


4. Time Management
By not feeling rushed or stressed in a particular situation, it will minimize the problem with anxiety occurring. If you are going somewhere, make sure that you are giving yourself plenty of time to get there. If you are preparing something that you are uncomfortable with facing, make sure that you are completely prepared by the time you get to the spot where you will have to move into your uncomfortable zone. By managing time and being prepared, you will allow yourself the ability to focus on confidence, instead of anxiety.


5. Laugh
Looking at your situations and the importance of them is one way to recognize that the anxiety is taking over the reality of the situation. Often times, anxiety causes us to change situations that are not so large into large problems. By changing your perspective of the situation and not taking it as seriously, you will be able to move through the situation more easily.


Not allowing anxiety to take over your life is the number one way to make sure that it doesn't prevent you from doing the tasks that need to be done for the day. By giving yourself the space and time to manage anxiety, you will be able to be successful in whatever you are trying to accomplish.


Anxiety and stress is a problem that affects everyone depending on the situation. If you are in a place where you feel uncomfortable, relates to a past situation, or that you are uncertain of, it can lead to anxiety. By being able to stop and use tools to eliminate anxiety it will help you move past your fears and allow you to be able to accomplish whatever you decide to set your mind to.

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