Cure Anxiety By Choosing Your Feelings
Today I want to ask you to be open minded about looking at your anxiety symptoms in a new
, totally different way. If I told you that you choose to feel anxious, I'm sure you wouldn't believe it. But I'm going to show you that you can diminish or cure anxiety by simply relabeling your reaction to sensations that you have chosen to label as anxiety.
Anxiety isn't a disease and it isn't something that is totally out of your control. It is actually your reaction to your feelings and thoughts. It is in your control to choose to react differently. It's that simple. But I get that it's not that easy. You can learn how to cure anxiety and even cure panic attacks by learning how you can choose your reactions to stressful situations that bring on the anxiety and panic.
Have you ever intentionally gone out of your way to experience fear? Sure you have! You have done this every time you've taken a ride an amusement park or watched a thriller or horror movie. And you probably loved it. Some people love that feeling of thrill so much they even do what most of us would consider terrifying and crazy - like skydiving, bungee jumping, or mountain climbing so that they can experience that rush of adrenaline.
If I asked you to describe how you felt on a roller coaster ride, some descriptions might include: adrenaline rush, jittery, butterfly stomach, light headed, racing heart, sweating, shaky. Do these symptoms sound familiar?
According to Rich Presta, author of "Anxiety Lie" and "Panic Puzzle", when he asked his clients to describe how they felt when they were feeling anxious and panicky, they gave him pretty much the same list of words: "nervous stomach, lightheaded, tingly, racing heart, full of adrenaline, and sweating."
It seems that feeling excitement and feeling anxiety are pretty much the same thing, only labeled differently depending on your point of view. Isn't it interesting that although the physical symptoms of anxiety and sensations of being thrilled are virtually identical, some people will put their life on hold to avoid circumstances that make them feel anxious while others actively seek to experience that thrill.
When you tell yourself that you're about to lose control, die, or go crazy, you label the feelings as anxiety or panic. But if you tell yourself you are having a blast, you call it excitement or thrilling.
Try relabeling next time it makes sense. If you are changing jobs and the thought fills you with dread and panic, take those feelings and relabel them. Tell yourself that you excited instead! Remind yourself that this is an exciting adventure, a fantastic opportunity to meet new people, experience new and wonderful things. My husband and I joke when we are embarking on a new venture or are stuck in some normally awful, stress inducing situation that we are having another one of "Pat and Deane's Great Adventures". We then laugh and smile and forge on ahead as if it were a great adventure. I know I'll at least get a good story out of it to tell my friends. I, like you, struggle with anxiety. I've tried this for anxiety attack relief, and it's worked for me.
So remember that one of the best anxiety solutions is to choose to call your physical sensations by a different feeling. You CAN decide that you are feeling excitement instead of anxiety. Practice this and you soon may be able to reduce or even eliminate anxiety attacks and have a vastly improved outlook towards life.
by: Deane Alban
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