Banish Stress With These Relaxation Techniques For Anxiety and Stress
Is anxiety taking over your life? Maybe you avoid certain situations or always feel nervous and stressed. I know from personal experience how debilitating anxiety can be, but there are some relaxation techniques for anxiety that can help take away some of the pressure and help you start to feel like your old self again.
When you have problems with anxiety, it can really start to take over your life. Before you know it you are feeling stressed all the time. Even when you aren't having an anxiety "attack" you are dreading the next one which actually keeps you an in even more heightened state of anxiety. Soon, feeling anxious becomes a way of life that effects almost everything you do. Practicing some of these relaxation techniques can help to bring down those levels and make life enjoyable again.
Top Relaxation Techniques For Anxiety
Deep Breathing - Sit quietly in your favorite chair with feet on the floor. Put one hand on your abdomen and one on your chest. The key here is to breathe with your diaphragm taking deep, long breaths. Breathe deeply in through your nose - your stomach should rise but chest should stay about the same. Hold the breath for a few seconds and release through your mouth. Push the breath all the way out.
Keep breathing in this manner, really focus on your breath, try to make your mind blank and dismiss all your worries and anxieties so you can let your tensions melt away.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
The next time you are feeling anxious, pay attention to your shoulder - you will probably notice they are somewhere up around your ears because your muscles are so tense! That's why one of my favorite relaxation techniques for anxiety is progressive muscle relaxation (and it’s also a great thing to do at bedtime if you have trouble falling asleep).
What you do is sit comfortably or even lay down and move your awareness to each muscle group in your body, then tense and relax.
So, you might start with your feet - really become aware of them then scrunched them up and then let it go - relax them totally. Then move up to your calves, then your thighs and so on. All the way up to your head and don't forget your face, fingers and arms!
For a quickie fix, you can focus on your shoulders (that's always my big problem area) and just scrunch them up (inhale while you do this) then let them drop and exhale.
These Relaxation Techniques Won't Get Rid Of Anxiety For Good
In order to banish anxiety from your life forever, you need to treat it at the root cause and break the cycle that keeps causing these feelings of anxiety to happen. If you feel like you are always nervous and waiting for the "other shoe" to drop, then you owe it to yourself to look into dealing with anxiety once and for all, not just masking it with pills and relaxation techniques for anxiety.
"Banish Stress With These Relaxation Techniques For Anxiety and Stress", was submitted 02/21/2012 under category Medicine and Remedy.
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