Manage Anxiety by Fully Accepting It!
Most of us when we get into an anxious state tend to worry even further about our current anxious condition.
This simply magnifies our anxiety and does not serve us in any way to manage it better although the reason we worry even further is because we think we can take better control of it.
Unfortunately, this only makes it worse and accelerates our anxiety and our palpitations even further.
So, the next time we get into an anxious state let’s simply accept the emotions we are feeling.
Then let’s try to understand as to what may be really going on within us.
Unless we deliberately and fully accept our current anxious state, this probably may not happen.
Therefore, one way to do this is to silently say “alright, I am now feeling very anxious, I can feel that my heartbeat is racing. Let me simply accept this emotion fully and try to understand what is it that I am feeling so anxious about.”
The next thing we can try to do is to monitor how intense the anxiety is that we are feeling.
“On a scale of 1 – 10, where 10 is the most intense, how would I rate my current level of anxiety?”
“Is the anxiety I am currently experiencing more intense or less intense than what I experienced the last time?”
As we keep fully accepting and monitoring our anxiety levels and as we try to understand what may be causing this anxiety, we will gain more control over our anxious moments.
This will help us to be less anxious the next time it happens.
It will also help us to analyze our anxiety and to recognize the source for it.
Once we are able to find the source for our anxiety then it becomes very much easier to start thinking through ways to solve the cause of the anxiety.
When we keep doing this over and over again, with time we will come to realize that the reason we get anxious is because we did not give enough time to something that needed our attention.
In a world that keeps pushing us day in and day out to rush, rush, and rush with a huge “things to do” list – many things do not get the amount of attention they need to first have them well sorted out in our brain before we take action to complete the task.
So, the next time we feel anxious let’s not try to get even more anxious by worrying over the anxious condition.
Instead let’s follow the above steps so that we can better manage our condition and eventually even completely recover from these sudden accelerated anxious moments.