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Welcome to Day 5 of your 7 Day Super Stress Solutions Course. On the previous 4 days you learned about your stress response, how to determine what stages of stress you may be in and how to achieve better sleep also you learned about headaches and what may triggers them and how to prevent or minimize them in your life. Now in Day 5 you will learn about anxiety and how to prevent it and/or cope more effectively with it.
Super Stress Solution Day 5 Stress and Anxiety - How to Overcome it
Simply put - anxiety is the body's normal survival mechanism that prepares us to deal with some impending or actual danger.
However many stressors today are psychological and interpersonal rendering the development of anxiety more towards interpretation and perceptions. Never the less if you perceive a threat, whether it is real or not your body will respond as if it is actually happening. Therefore it's easy to see how constant worrying and foreboding can cause your body's alarm system to overreact and before long you are experience a constant state of angst. Such pervasive feelings of nervousness, fear, apprehension, being uptight and/or on edge is a significant sign of anxiety. Furthermore if you have difficulty concentrating, fears or criticism and disapproval and experience significant physiological symptoms of elevated heart rate, tightness in your chest, hot or cold spells, and jumpiness then chances are you're experiencing significant levels of anxiety. Here are some effective techniques that can help you cope more effectively with anxiety.
Suggestion #1 - Recognize the cycle of your anxiety. Although it may appear the anxiety came out of the blue there are usually related causes that create your anxiety and they tend to be evolving through patterns.
Suggestion #2 - Increase your knowledge and awareness of your body's response to perceived threats. You can learn to gain control over anxiety if you can prevent issues and poor coping mechanisms that may cause more stress in your life.
Suggestion #3 - Practice daily skills that will physically calm your body. List situations you have difficulty managing your anxiety and situation you may avoid out of fear. Rank them in order of difficulty, and then rewrite each situation developing a long term positive resolution and outcome.
Suggestion #4 - Develop confidence through deep breathing and positive imagery. Breathing deeply and slowly has been proven to have immediate calming effects upon the cardiovascular system and tends to slow down the sense of being out of control and reacting to anxiety. As well visualization helps generates positive feelings of personal power, confidence and control.
Suggestion #5 - Adopt a supportive attitude. Attitudes of self criticism and low self worth can reinforce the sense of failure to cope with more anxiety and daily stressors. Improve and increase your awareness of negative self talk and reconstruct your thinking towards more neutral and/or positive perceptions.
Suggestion #6 - Focus your task one at a time. Step back and slow down your response to anxiety producing situations. Take a deep breath and focus on only that situation at hand so you will not become overwhelmed by the sensation and challenges of trying to solve many difficulties or problems at one time.
Suggestion #7 - Maintain an overall healthy lifestyle with emphasis upon good cardiovascular fitness. Research strongly indicates anxiety and its physiological symptoms can be significantly reduced by just maintaining good cardio vascular fitness 3 to 5 times weekly for just 30 minutes.
