Strategies to help Anxiety

Do you ever feel overcome with anxiety?

You start breathing heavily and you become so overwhelmed with panic that you have to try and control your breathing?

Most of the time it is due to worrying about what might happen in the future. The more we focus on it, the more anxious and overwhelmed you become.

I had suffered for years with anxiety. My heart would race and my palms would become extremely sweaty. As I look back I realised that it was all about the fear of the unknown. I was constantly worrying about potentially failing or making a mistake, etc.

I want to share with you a fantastic technique that has helped to take away my feelings of anxiety, stress and worry. It’s the quickest way to handle feeling anxious.

We do a short mind hack where you visualise yourself already completing the event or situation. We go beyond the event and look back at it so that our mind thinks that it has already happened. This hack is referred to as “attaching to your future-self.”

This technique has helped me out to quickly diffuse the onset of anxiety and anxious thoughts causing me to become overwhelmed.

Your Mindset is your biggest asset.

Anxiety is a future based trigger that is usually related to a specific event. Using this technique is a fix for anxiety. If you are wanting to take anxiety away and stop the triggers, then we need to do more specific techniques and processes.

We need to dive a little deeper inside our minds to clear past negative experiences, trapped emotions and/or conflicting values.

Anxiety Alleviator Technique.

You cannot be anxious if the event has already occurred. So the fastest way to relieve anxiety is to mentally go beyond the moment in time that you are feeling anxious about. Then imagine looking back at the successful completion of the event that was causing the anxiety in the first place. When you look back the anxiety no longer makes sense in your mind, because the event has already happened in your mind, and therefore it cannot activate or trigger.

Step 1 – Think about the event that you are already anxious about. (eg an upcoming presentation)

Step 2 – Think about an event that is going to occur after that event that would never cause you to feel anxious. (eg, dinner with close friends, relaxing on your couch watching a movie,etc.)

Tune in to what you are hearing, feeling and seeing in this place that makes you feel really good. Immerse yourself in being in that moment.

Step 3 – From out there in the future event that isn’t causing you any anxiety, take a moment to reflect on the successful completion of the event that was causing you to feel anxious.

Because you are looking back at the past of the event already being completed, the anxiety can’t exist. Anxiety for a past event doesn’t make sense in our minds.

This process is just a cure for anxiety….it isn’t prevention. If you want to prevent anxiety then you need to look a lot deeper.