By talking about #anxiety with a counsellor in an open and honest discussion we can explore - What is making you #anxious, where does the worry or impending doom come from.
How to deal with anxiety, engage with our anxiety and learn to walk alongside it and find a way forward.
Anxiety often destabilises our sense of #safety, it can place us on high alert when living with daily #stress and #tension, with a sense of being #oppressed without #hope for the #freedom of living #peacefully without it.
Yes, it takes #courage and #strength to face the #overwhelming #emotions surrounding anxiety however learning #resilience comes with a huge dose of #self-value, #self-worth and #self-pride that supports the process of overcoming debilitating anxiety.
Anxiety is not negative, it keeps us safe and is a vital tool during decision making processes, it challenges us, helps us tackle problems by keeping us reflective. Anxiety is an issue when it prevents this process and holds us back.
When you stop running from anxiety and begin to feel it instead of hating it, you'll begin to understand it and that's when the magic happens, and change can take place.
If we consider the beginning of time for a comparison, it could be argued that, as a race we have come to believe that life should be painless. Life is not pain free, it is a bumpy ride and can often be tough. As humans our brains and bodies are built to evolve, to adapt and change with conscious thoughts of ourselves and our surroundings. When we are actively connecting with what is around us, learning and adapting to change, we are coping. It is being disconnected and not coping or adapting when anxiety can take hold.Â
How to deal with anxiety? It takes courage to overcome anxiety, to slowly build the strength to learn and understand and find new ways of coping. Anxiety is a void of nothingness and feelings of #distress; courage is our basic instinct to create something that is valuable to us and make change.
Anxiety is driven by fear, is it flight, fight, flee or freeze? whatever your response is without facing the fear we are more #vulnerable to the dangers. Dealing with the #threat removes it power as you take control back. The more you ignore anxiety the less free from it you are.
It takes time to trust when anxiety is triggered, we can lean towards adapting rather than fear and panic. Together, during our session we can learn new ways to adapt by understanding the cause at the very heart of anxiety. We can slowly start to build towards small change and look at larger challenges to take you gently towards the things that have value in your life, and you want to do.
Together we can, learn the first warning signs of anxiety and take a first step in making friends with this feeling, we will look for ways to support self-confidence, seek evidence of successes to prove we can slowly adapt and challenge, gaining important self-pride, self-worth and self-value. By focusing on what and who matters rather than being led astray towards negative thought patterns we can calm anxiety in a way that us most helpful to you and learn how to deal with anxiety in the present and the future.
Often when anxiety takes hold it can become our familiar, and although unhealthy it oddly feels safe as it is known to us, and we have become used to the feeling over time even when it is unpleasant.
So, instead of living in fear of the what if's and the maybe's and dragged into the exhausting loops of panic and worry I can help you master, respect and even appreciate your anxiety as a warning to consider your options and what is right for you in that moment.
The only remedy for anxiety is courage and its takes courage to have courage!
Release the Fear - Release the Mind & Fly High
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