5 tips to overcome stress and anxiety.
Science says that women are twice as likely to suffer from anxiety than men.
How to help them, and why social networks only deepen the feeling of stress, too, know experts.
It is not surprising that in the ever-busy life where we are forced to juggle work and family responsibilities, the level of stress modern man is higher than ever before. Anxiety disorders are draining it, filling with fear and feelings at the expense of relationships and career.
Proven “anti-stress” recipes from The Daily Mail shared a hypnotherapist and specialist for management of anxiety Dan Reagen.
less social media
Anxiety is always looking for what to focus, and then begins to spin in your head the worst-case scenario. In social media we encounter bad and scary news that unwittingly begin to “try on” ourselves.
But on the other hand, looking through social media posts about how they are all fine, we may feel worse than it actually is.
more movement
Physically anxiety causes our body to a state of “readiness” to fight or struggling to escape from danger. Our breathing quickens, my heartbeat accelerates and becomes hotter than if we were in training. Therefore, the correct response to all these signals will be the movement. A 10-minute walk every day will significantly improve the sense of self.
By the way, walking, do not sad to look at his feet. Better to straighten your shoulders and raise the head.
breathing exercises
“Turn on” the relaxation can start to breathe slower. Not deeper. Then hold the air for 5 seconds, then exhale slowly, counting to 11. On the inhale count to 7. And so repeat for a minute. That thought became more clear, each time you exhale, count from 300 in the reverse direction, taking each time for 3.
positive scenarios
Anxiety makes us think about everything that could go wrong and spell disaster, and these bad scenarios seem all the more real. You need to come up with a good. How else can the events develop? What of all this might be good?
Acknowledging that worst-case scenario is not the only one, you will weaken the grip of anxiety.
mental space
The brain is covered by stress, unable to think clearly. If the computer, which filled RAM, and running multiple programs at once, the brain tries to concentrate and think logically, but it is very difficult.
The reagen advises his patients during the day to devote 20 minutes to release the brain from stress through meditation, relaxing music, and the like.
When you are disturbed, every day seems like an endless battle. Using these five steps, you will become free from it, concludes the Reagen.
