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Stress Management Anxiety Reduction

With the perceived increase in chronic stress, more and more people are in search of stress management anxiety reduction techniques to help them.

Anxiety and stress have a very strong connection to one another.

Just like with stress, anxiety also has holistic (BEST) components that affect your:

  • Thoughts
  • Sensory reactions
  • Emotions
  • Behaviors
In our lifetime, the stress response is predominantly being triggered by threats of uncertainty – fears, worries, threats of ego.

It is your perceptions of a situation that are creating stress and anxiety.

Stress, anxiety, and fear

It is important to realize that anxiety can occur without you being able to identify a specific trigger, or stimulus.

Learning how to become aware of the power of your perceptions is the key to your quest of stress management anxiety reduction techniques that will work for you.

So, if stress and anxiety are mostly about your perceptions – your thoughts – what are fears about?

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What distinguishes fear from stress and anxiety is that most of the time a fear is based in reality. For example, if you are being chased by an angry dog, your stress response will get triggered because there is actually an angry dog chasing you!

With anxiety, it is more about your thoughts projecting what might happen in the future.

For example, one of my friends recently hurt her back, and I took her into the emergency room. After a thorough examination, it was determined that there was no structural damage and they wanted to give her a shot to relax the muscles in her back.

My friend struggles with panic attacks. So, in her thoughts, she began to have an anxiety attack because of her perceived fears of what could happen if she had the shot. Once she was able to change her thoughts, or her perceived threats of uncertainty, she was able to take good care of herself.

Anxiety is often a normal reaction to stress. It is only when it begins to take over your life that it can be classified as an anxiety disorder.

Signs and symptoms of anxiety

The signs and symptoms of anxiety are the same as those with stress:

Physically
Increased heart palpitations
Increased blood pressure
Increased chest pain
Increased shortness of breath
Increased metabolic rate
Increased fatigue
Increased muscle tension and pain
Increased headaches
Increased stomach aches


Emotionally
Increased feelings of apprehension or dread
Increased irritability
Increased restlessness
Increased moodiness
Increased reactivity


Thoughts
Increased trouble concentrating
Increased thoughts of worst case scenario
Increased hyper-alertness
Increased obsessive thoughts


And, since it is worth noting that panic attacks are a common symptom of anxiety as well. They often come:
  • Without warning
  • With a fear that is irrational
  • But the perception of danger is very real

Stress management anxiety reduction techniques

One of the most important things to become aware of with your stress and anxiety is that you often have more authorship to controlling them than you may have realized.

Allow yourself the opportunity to learn – become more aware without judgment or shame – what thoughts are you thinking about most of the time?

Take control over your thoughts and you will often notice a reduction in your stress and anxiety.

Information is power. So, when you are aware of the stressful situations that create your symptoms of anxiety you can react to them from a place of empowerment because only you are in charge of how you want to think about that situation.

And, when you are living your life from a place of empowerment, you are more likely to implement the stress relaxation techniques that you have learned work best for you in your stress management anxiety reduction strategies.

Knowledge is power!







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