6 Powerful Ways To Relieve Stress And Anxiety Starting Today

Stress and anxiety are so common in today’s world, that everyone seems to be searching for that ‘quick fix’ that will instantly take their stress and anxiety away. Unfortunately there is no quick fix for stress and anxiety, yes there are masks to temporary help you deal with stress and anxiety, but you don’t to go down that road for the long term… trust me. 

So here are the 6 powerful ways you can begin to relieve stress and anxiety from your life starting today:

1. Don’t just sit there. Move!

According to many psychologists, motion creates emotion. You might notice that when you are idle, it’s easier to become depressed. Your heart rate slows down, less oxygen travels to your brain, and you are slumped somewhere in a chair blocking air from reaching your lungs. I challenge you right now (yes even before work), regardless of how you are feeling, to get up and walk around at a fast tempo. Maybe you might want to go to an empty room and jump up and down a little bit. It may sound silly but the results speak for themselves. Try it now for a few minutes. It works like magic at the beginning of the day to relieve stress and anxiety.

2. Smell the roses

How do you smell the roses? How about investing some money to go on that one trip you’ve been dreaming about? Visit a country with lots of exotic places to jolt your imagination and spur your creativity. You need to detach from your daily activities and venture a little bit.

3. Help others cope with their problems

It is very therapeutic when you engross yourself in helping others. You will be surprised how many people’s problems are worse than those you may be facing. You can offer others assistance in countless ways. Don’t curl up in your bed and let depression, stress and anxiety take hold of you.

“Get out and help somebody. But be careful. Don’t get caught up in other people’s problems in an attempt to forget about your own.”

4. Laugh a little

Doesn’t matter what other people think, what makes you laugh?

By now you’ve heard that laughter is a good internal medicine. It relieves tension and loosens the muscles. It causes blood to flow to the heart and brain. More importantly, laughter releases a chemical that rids the body of pains.

Everyday, researchers discover new benefits of laughter. Let me ask you this question: “Could you use a good dose of belly-shaking laughter every now and then?” Of course you can. What you are waiting for? Go to a comedy club or rent some funny movies.

 5. Stress is contagious

What I mean by this is that negative people can be a huge stressor. Negativity breeds stress and some people know how to do nothing but complain. Now you can look at this in one of two ways. First, they see you as a positive, upbeat person and hope that you can bring them back “up”. If that’s not it, then they’re just a negative person and can’t feel better about themselves unless those around them are negative as well.

Don’t get caught up in their downing behavior. Recognize that these kinds of people have their own stressand anxiety issues and then limit your contact with them. You can try to play stress doctor and teach them how to better manage their stress and anxiety, but be aware that this may contribute more to your own stress, so tread lightly.

6. Stop stress and anxiety thought trains

Remember, thoughts are things.

It is possible to tangle yourself up in a stress and anxiety knot all by yourself. “If this happens, then that might happen and then we’re all up the creek!” Most of these things never happen, so why waste all that energy worrying needlessly? Give stress thought-trains the red light and stop them in their tracks. Okay so it might go wrong – how likely is that and what can you do to prevent it?

There are so many great ways to relieve stress and anxiety. The best thing to think of when trying to overcome your stress and anxiety is to gain momentum. So start your journey towards a stress and anxitey free life today.

Visit www.theanxietyguy.com to learn more about the End The Anxiety Program, a program proven to begin turning your anxiety switches off through valuable tools, and the best anxiety support you’ll find online.

The Cold Hard Truth About You, Your Anxiety, And The World Around You

Back in my own ‘past life’ with anxiety, I might as well have introduced myself like this…

Alright, so if you’re reading this right now you are either:

1) Extremely intrigued by the title

2) Have an anxiety disorder and are stopping by to read more information on anxiety (as if you aren’t an expert already)

The truth is if you’re part of group #2 I want to firstly say welcome, and secondly say it wasn’t too long ago that I was in the same anxious shoes as yours. My health anxiety took me to places I never thought I would go. Places like the church to ‘find god’ because a doctor sure wasn’t helping me out with my panic attacks and anxiety, Bali where I moved my newly crowned fiancee and my 1 year old so I could get a ‘fresh start’ and maybe shake this feeling of helplessness I had, and finally every damn emergency room in the city of Calgary where I would pretty much spend as much time at as a part time employee due to the fear of death that my symptoms of anxiety caused me.

No one I mean NO ONE played the role of wearing a ‘fake mask’ in public the way I did, I had in fact become an expert at it. A ‘good morning’ here to my co workers at the tennis facility I was teaching at, a ‘great’ answer there when I was asked how my day was going as I fearfully hopped on the stationary bicycle at the local gym, fearful that my heart just might exploded.

I was so good at this fake me, that I could easily teach a class of hundreads on how to convince the general public that your life was as normal and upbeat as anyones.

But the truth was I was fighting my demons, skeletons, whatever you want to call it every second (no lie) of everyday. My recovery from an anxiety disorder wasn’t a straight path either, and you want to know why? Here’s why, and I might blow your mind with this one but here it goes… Because the health care ‘professionals’ I went to didn’t want me to recovery from my anxiety disorder.

Just another day…

That one struck a nerve in you i’m sure, but before you start blasting me emails and spreading the word on what a bad man I am, remember i’m the one that has recovered naturally from an anxiety disorder, and I now am clear on what works and what doesn’t while you are still searching high and low for answers (again, truth). Answers to the new symptoms of anxiety that popped up last night, answers for how to re-condition yourself so you can be that social butterfly you once were again, and on and on.

Yep, in most cases the worst thing you can do is put your anxiety disorder in the hands of a ‘professional’

Why? Because THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO GET BETTER (sorry for the caps). Why don’t they want you to get better? Well the short answer is because if you get better, they won’t see you again, and that can not only dampen their reputation, but dampen their wallets as well (remember, that’s the short answer). God forbid they find out that you did your own research, and found out that the chemical imbalance theory is completely flawed, and you had to flush out all your meds.

I get asked for advice on anxiety every single day, things like how do I stop panic attacks? How do I stop worrying about my symptoms of anxiety and how can I get my life back. Well after overcoming debilitating anxiety disorders naturally, becoming a well known CBT trainer in my area, and successfully helping many people end their anxiety (as well as their daily check-ups at the local emerg to see if the ECG test will reveal anything, it will always be the same if you have anxiety so you know), I decided to take matters into my own hands and fill people with the truth behind stopping their anxiety. Do you want to hear the truth to stopping your anxiety naturally? Of course you do, and it comes in a few simple and slightly harsh ways which are:

– Find a mentor who’s been in your shoes, and has ended their anxiety struggle naturally

– Come up with a plan, and if you don’t have a plan or struggle to make one, invest in the end the anxiety program and stop doing things at random

– Put in the effort mentally, physically, and emotionally for a set period of time (yes longer then what you’re thinking)

– Stop seeing health care professionals, and even therapists that you have no rapport with

– Stop talking about your anxiety

– Stop feeling helpless and hopeless everyday, because what ‘they’ say is actually true; you CAN turn what you think is impossible today into possible tomorrow (tomorrow as in, in the fiture, you know). Finally…

– Smile at your fear and anxiety, instead of running from it

The exact moment those words were uttered that changed my life forever.

Yes you read that last one right, and you know where it came from? The movie Gladiator! You know you’ve seen it a bizillion times just like me come on! Remember the part when Marcos Aurelius says to the emperor; ‘Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back’ I took those words from that movie and used it as a tool to desensitize myself from my fears. Everytime I felt the panic cycle starting in me, and the ‘what if’ thoughts creeping in, I repeated those words in my mind constantly and with it came slow but certain relief from my anxiety. Simply because I conditioned myself not to fear anymore, but to smile in the face of my greatest fear… what a rush it was I tell ya.

Hope you enjoyed this read, don’t forget to share your thoughts, good or bad 🙂

Have An Anxiety Free Friday Everyone

Anxiety holding you back from following through on those plans for the weekend? Don’t let it, our greatest tool against anxiety is anger. Use it to show anxiety how powerless it can be, and do what you need to do this weekend.

This Mornings Breakfast!

Holy veggie overload Batman! Anyone care to share their own anxiety busting breakfast from the day, be my guest! Also a big thank you to the new followers of the anxious athlete blog.

Dennis

A Monday Message

Remember that time when you did something you were extremely proud of? Do you remember what your body language looked like? If nothing else, today is a good day to play the role of someone who genuinely loves the direction their life is going.

Mondays can be a day you look forward to, just play the part.