Relief from Anxiety

Tools for managing anxiety

Since most of the clients I am seeing right now are coming to me for feelings of anxiety and worry, I thought I would share some great tools you can use to help manage those feelings. The most insidious part of anxiety is that it causes your body and mind to go into panic mode, which shifts your thoughts and energies into worrying about the problem. This shift turns off your creative ability, so now in addition to having a big problem you have lost the ability to tap into your creative resources to come up with a great solution. Often I see clients who have things they can do to help solve their problems but because they are in panic mode they can’t see those sometimes very obvious solutions.

Here are some great conscious-level tools you can use to help shift those feelings:

-Exercise: the undisputed king of handling anxiety, it has better clinical results than all the anxiety medications out there. If you need help my personal trainer Christine Burke is the best. Visit lightheartedfitness.com

-Doing violence to a pillow: Take a pillow and think about all your upsets and frustrations — all that’s bothering you — and while thinking about those feelings beat the stuffing out of a pillow. Emotion is just energy in motion and the more we move while we are feeling it the faster those feelings pass. Trust me, the pillow will survive and you will feel better.

-Ice water: Taking a break and drinking a large glass of water helps calm anxiety. I can’t say exactly why, but it works and it’s cheap.

-Natural CALM: This is a great calming product out there you can get at any health food store. It’s a magnesium powder called Natural CALM and it really helps you relax after an upset. It’s also great choice if you are an emotional eater since, unlike food, it will actually help you feel better.

-Meditation: second only to exercise in clinical results, and my personal favorite.

You can use the meditation below to help you bring peace and wisdom into any situation that is causing you anxiety. It should open and start when you click on the link but if you have any trouble email me and I will send you the MP3 directly.

http://www.healthyhabitshypnosis.com/Audio/ReduceAnxiety.mp3

Wishing you all great health and happiness.

Jill Thomas CCHT
Healthy Habits Hypnosis
760-803-2841
www.healthyhabitshypnosis.com