We all Face Anxiety At a point Of life

"The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.”
― Rick Warren

 What will sometimes haunt my dreams still is just like a general feeling of morose, anxiety everyone experiences a version of anxiety or worry in their lives. I don't know why I opened up and talked about it but I guess I was just sick and tired of just having it inside of me for some years and I was ready to make a change. I find out that part of my identity is saying no to things. You have lots of people around you, that tell you all day what you have to do but it’s your right to choose what to do and don’t do. It’s your right to choose what you believe in and what you don’t believe in is your right to curate your life and your own perspective.

 We all go through things, we all go through struggles, right? There’s probably everyone here that goes through struggles the same exact way and I think that’s what we all have to realize. It’s something that every single person goes through And maybe we go through it in a different or more intense way for longer periods of time , there’s nothing wrong with you to be easily affected person that cares a lot, that takes things in a deep way is actually part of what makes you amazing. I also struggled a lot with anxiety and depression if you start to feel like you’re twisting things around you and you start to feel like there’s no sunlight around you And you are paralyzed with fear. 

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

 Here’s how you can help yourself First you have to understand what anxiety is and you have to understand the connection between worry which something we all do and self-doubt which something we all do . Anxiety, is what happens when your habit of worrying spirals out of control it’s important for you to foundation ally understand that anxiety and worry are the same thing, It’s just your body starts to get agitated and that’s when we call worrying anxiety Your heart races, you might sweat a little bit you might feel tightening in your chest might feel a pit in your stomach you have a surge of cortisol.

 You can actually beat it. This is how you gonna do it, so all day long you going to have moments where your thoughts drift like you'll just be hanging out with your friends and then, suddenly you like I’m not sure that that person likes me anymore you know I haven’t heard from my known lately I wonder if they are dead you know oh, you know what check like,you just start worrying about stuff why? because it’s a habit Because when you’re not paying attention your brain shifts from you being a decision maker and paying attention, to you just kinda spinning things on auto-pilot and one of your habits is worrying.

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles."

— Charlie Chaplin

 The second you wake up then you notice holy cow I’m talking some negative garbage to myself right now 5.4.3.2.1 You've just shifted the part of the brain You've shifted from the basal ganglia, which is where your habit loops are spinning and you've awakened your prefrontal cortex. You've, also interrupted that pattern Now what you going to do because your mind is actually ready to receive a different thought because of the counting Now you can put in an anchor thought, Like if you’ve a monitor If you’ve got a vision about the way that  your business is gonna turn out in five years If you just have a thought that makes you really happy and proud in a sort that Now, why is this work? It works because of the counting and I’m not kidding.

 Based on some research, that positive thinking alone, not effective. sometimes we are trying to force our self to think positive can actually make the worries worse, why? Well, the reason, why is because it's really hard to just change the channel. What we have to do is basically turn off the TV and then turn it back on with the prefrontal cortex awakened. So the counting is important and so you can start using this today. And the problem that I have with anxiety is the physiological side of it I got shallow breathing Rapid heart rate and most terrifyingly the blood is actually leaving the prefrontal cortex and so you're getting into a position where your higher-level cognition is actually being shut down because it doesn't have blood flow and then I began to visualize that what I was trying to do?

"Smile, breathe, and go slowly."

— Thich Nhat Hanh 

 Was get myself into a calm state where the blood could actually go back to the places that i needed it So that my higher-level ability to rise in, would kick back in. The first thing that I started to do to be able to consciously control that was meditate, In meditating what you're learning to do at least for me and I don't consider myself a meditation expert by any means but this was one of the huge ones for me, and meditating was learning to breathe from my diaphragm Even one breath from my diaphragm had a really big impact breathing from your diaphragm instead of from your chest, right so most people breathe like this. And it's all in your upper chest,you're not getting a very deep breath So in meditating and learning to breathe from your diaphragm and learning to consciously calm yourself down meaning you're lowering your heart rate, you're breathing much more deeply from the diaphragm. Getting the blood reallocated to the parts of the brain that are actually useful That meditating was my first step into that Now, when there are really hard times.

 There are so many tools that you can use to help yourself in those times and it does get better and easier as life goes on and you start to get to know yourself more And what will trigger certain instances of anxiety and where you feel comfortable and safe so I’m just saying don’t ever feel like you’re a weirdo because we're all weirdos.

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
― Amit Ray

10 Minute Meditation for Anxiety.........👎

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-6f5wQXSu8

 Let me know how you feel?