Think like Rocky for instant motivation!
Do you ever find you need more motivation to get going and get it done? Ever wish you had the energy and drive to get up and take action?
If your house was on fire or you’d just won the lottery you’d soon be getting up and taking action! But as I hope your house is ok and the odds of winning the lottery are pretty small, here’s another way to tap into that inner motivation to get stuff done.
Use this simple technique to quickly calm your anxiety.
When you feel anxious, the emotions can take over – you get all those anxious feelings and sensations and you probably just want to get out of that place to somewhere you can feel safe and calm down.
As well as those anxious feelings, you also get the anxious thoughts – people often describe it to me as a racing mind, or feeling overwhelmed or like they can’t think straight or concentrate.
It’s like there are two parts to your mind – the thinking part and the emotional, anxious part. When the anxiety increases, your ability to think clearly or rationally diminishes. You just can’t think straight like you do when you feel calm and relaxed.
Suffering with social anxiety can be a daily nightmare with meetings, parties and other events around others taking place all the time.
You probably worry about what others think about you and do all you can to avoid looking or sounding stupid or making an idiot of yourself in front of them. When around others you may feel on edge, anxious and worried. You may feel inferior in some way or not as good as others.
In extreme cases, you may structure your life to avoid any potentially anxious situations and so you avoid meetings, meeting new people, going out, presentations, dating or any other similar situations.
To combat the anxiety, here are 5 things you need to do:
If your anxiety levels are sky high right now then follow these two steps to ease it down:
1) Close your eyes and sit comfortably. Put your hand on your stomach and with every in breath imagine inflating your stomach like a balloon. As you do this say that word ‘relax’ in your mind. Then with every out breath the balloon deflates again and you say ‘relaxed’ in your mind. Breathe in calmness and breath out and relax deeper (you can get your free rapid relaxation hypnosis MP3 to help with this – just enter your details on the right).
Is there too much going on in your head?
Maybe your brain is always whizzing around and always seems to be on the go – or finding something to worry about.
So may people tell me about how they can’t switch off their mind – they are caught in a trap of over thinking that leaves them tired and drained. You may be able to distract yourself in the daytime but at some point, maybe when you are trying to sleep, all that brain activity can leave you stressed and frustrated and wide awake.
And maybe you have trouble concentrating – many anxious people tell me they just can’t read to relax anymore because their brain is whirring around.
Except when your anxiety is overwhelming, there can be many benefits to anxiety. Of course, if you struggle with heart palpitations, shaking, panic attacks and a racing mind, it may be difficult to believe that your anxiety has any positive points.
But here’s the thing, at the very least those anxiety feelings and thoughts let you know that your safety responses are working well (even if they are set a bit too high right now). Should you ever be in a dangerous situation (although I hope you never are) you would want your body to automatically keep you safe by getting you out of there – so the sweating, increased breathing rate and rush of blood to the muslces can be pretty handy indeed.
And there are also many other things that flow from anxiety if you are able to harness them (even after you learn how to feel calmer and in control).
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Whenever someone is looking for help with weight loss you can tick many, or even all, of these off their list:
And there may be a few more habits, behaviours and cravings going on.
All of these combine to just leave you feeling out of control, unhealthy, fat and miserable.
One of the hardest things if you suffer with a dog phobia is that dogs are everywhere! With many other phobias like the dentist or flying you can try and control your fear by avoiding those things.
Yet dogs can be found everywhere in your day to day life – outside shops, by play areas, on green spaces and even walking towards you down the street. And with a dog phobia you are likely to be alert to any possible sounds or sightings of dogs – especially dogs off their lead who could run towards you.
And most people with dog phobias whom I have helped have also carefully managed their contact with friends who own dogs. This may be making sure the dog will be shut in another room or even avoiding going to their house altogether.
When you are around or near a dog, that fear response will kick in. You will feel on edge, alert, probably keeping one eye constantly on the dog. Depending on how near the dog is and what it is doing you may even experience shaking, sweating, breathing changes and a racing heart.
Living life in a struggle with anxiety is tough. There may be specific situations that trigger your anxiety or it may feel all encompassing – it’s always lurking, just waiting to strike.
And when your anxiety kicks in you’ll experience all these unpleasant sensations – that feeling in your stomach or chest, you get hot, can’t concentrate, you get shakey and you just want to get out of there as soon as you can.
With all those unpleasant thoughts and feelings, you may stop doing things that seem to trigger anxiety, or you may have to force yourself to endure them (perhaps telling yourself that if you do it enough the feelings will have to go, won’t they?).n
So it’s no wonder that may people with anxiety also talk about depression.
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Enjoy feeling and being more mentally calm and physically relaxed right now:
