Do you know you have to overcome anxiety if you want to live your life in peace?
Anxiety is the most common emotion you feel in your day-to-day life, isn’t it?
“I am anxious about my promotion”
“I am anxious about the reaction of my boss.”
“I am anxious about the future of my children.”
“I am anxious about the longevity of my marriage.”
Can you see how you feel anxious about everything in your life?
In fact, not a day passes without you feeling worried about something. From the most innocuous problems to the most nerve wracking ones, you feel sick with anxiety.
Why is it you experience anxiety many a time in your life?
Today’s modern world is really tough. It is very competitive and hectic. It is mercenary and harsh. You have to be on your toes to keep in pace with others. This makes you feel highly stressed and tensed.
You also face many problems in your day-to-day life.
- Relationship problems with your spouse makes you depressed.
- The future of your children makes you worried.
- Your work related problems make you panic.
- Your financial mess makes you assume the worst for you.
- The affluence of your friends\relatives makes you feel you are no good.
The list of reasons for your anxiety is endless.
What happens to you when you are anxious about your life?
In actual fact, anxiety is your imaginary assumption of many imaginary disasters happening in your life. In your anxiety, you fearfully assume that your problems will remain permanent to torture you throughout your life.
Instead of fighting against it, you become paranoid with fear and anxiety.
Don’t do it.
You have to overcome anxiety to survive in this dog-eat-dog world.
Your problems will never disappear just because you are anxious.
Yes.
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” Charles Spurgeon
Are there ways to overcome anxiety?
Of course there are. But, you cannot make it disappear just like that. You have to gear up all your mental strength to overcome anxiety.
Here are simple and practical ways to overcome anxiety
1. Being healthy
Most of you never really care for your health until it is too late.
Do you know only a healthy body can have a healthy mind?
Yes!
When you are physically weak, you become mentally weak also. When you are mentally weak, you feel anxious about everything in your life.
Don’t let this happen to you.
Your healthy body is interlinked to your healthy mind. One cannot do without the other. So, eat healthy food.
Avoid junk food at any cost. It is nothing, but calories and fat. It destroys your health in an alarming way.
Be agile and active. Do regular exercises. Exercises provide good blood circulation all through your body.
When you are healthy, you are energetic and enthusiastic.
Watch anxiety ridden people.
They will be physically dull and lackluster. What they feel in their body is conveyed to their mind. Their mind also becomes jaded and weary. A weary and tired mind is a thriving ground for anxiety.
When you have a healthy mind, you are never anxious. You know every problem is temporary. You do not worry too much about it.
2. Reason out your problems
Do you know why most of you suffer from anxiety?
You become miserable and dejected by even the smallest of your problems. You think that you are the only one to suffer from problems. You feel others are happy while your life is wretched.
You are very wrong.
There is no problem free life for anyone. Everyone have their own share of difficulties. Your problems does not need your worrying and fretting. It needs your endeavor to solve it.
Is your relationship issues with your spouse making you anxious?
Nurture your relationship with your love and care.
Is your work related problems making you stressed?
Work with proficiency to achieve success.
Yes.
Solving your problems is in your hands. Instead of making your life torturous by feeling anxious, solve your complications by fighting against it.
3. Pamper yourself
Your life is often taken up in fulling your never ending duties. It makes you feel fatigued and sapped as you are overwhelmed by the magnitude of it.
You will chip under the pressure if you do not take a reprieve.
Move away from your problems for a while to enjoy your life.
Go for shopping. Buy things you like. You can literally feel your anxiousness disappearing.
Meditate to clear your mind off your confused and chaotic thoughts.
Do you know your anxiety is a byproduct of your disorderly mind?
Meditation is the best remedy for it.
It is easy to do and the result is awesome. Do it daily to overcome anxiety.
4. Take deep breaths
Sometimes anxiety makes you feel suffocated. You feel as if your heart will pop out. You feel faintish. The symptoms of anxiety is often more like a heart attack.
Relax your mind when you feel anxious. Take deep breaths to calm yourself. You should breathe in deeply and breathe out deeply.
You can visibly feel your anxiety disappearing after a few minutes.
5. Accept it
Accept the fact that you are facing problems. Most of you shirk away from facing reality. You live in a dreamy world of no problems.
Such a life doesn’t exist anywhere.
- When you face defeats, accept it.
- When you face rebuffs, accept it.
- When you are grieved, accept.
Accepting life as it is a half way mark to overcome anxiety. But never become reconciled to your problems. Win over it, at any cost.
6. Talk to someone who cares
Do not hide your emotions within you. You will suffocate. Your heart becomes heavy with unwanted worries and fears. You feel depressed that there is no one to help you.
You are also baffled about the ways to overcome your problems.
Talk to a positive person who really cares for you. His positive words will make you feel relieved.
Conclusion
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” Henry Ward Beecher
Your anxiety is actually imaginary worries about your imaginary problems. It springs from you. It is you who have to kill it. No else can do it for you.