Feb 15 • Educational Guide
How to completely relax through anxiety
That anxious feeling in your gut? The overwhelming feeling intensifying every second? Your head beginning to ring?
Most of your life you ran away from this feeling. Today you’re going to allow it to happen while you sit back and enjoy.
The same causes trigger the same anxiety. It’s a cycle that’s probably occurring with a few things in life: dating, income, self image, etc.
The next time you feel this happening, this is what you’re going to do:
- Become aware that you are anxious. Awareness is the first step to dealing with anxiety.
- If you are in public, excuse yourself. If it’s happening in private, sit down.
- Relax your body, close your eyes, don’t force anything and let it all happen.
Don’t judge the anxiety. Don’t tell yourself it’s ok. Just watch it happen silently. Don’t force yourself not to think.
To not think, is thinking of itself.
To get better at awareness, just bring it back to the feeling of anxiety and observe it. Every time you do this, you train the muscle of presence like your bicep or chest.
Within a few seconds to 2-5 minutes, your anxiety will completely disappear.
As you face your fears more often, that duration will decrease.
You will have the same anxiety come up maybe 1-5 times depending in the intensity of your trauma behind the anxious trigger. For some, it never comes up again.
This works because your awareness is like a flashlight in the dark. Where you point the flashlight, the darkness leaves and the light comes to fill it. Now you can see beyond the dark (your anxious feeling).
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