My Secret To Fight Anxiety

1. Ask yourself these questions.

          Are you Hungry?

          Are you Angry?

          Are you Lonely? 

          Are you Tired? 

HALT This is an acronym. 

You feel anxious most of the time when you have not eaten anything.

Try eating something healthy. Crappy food won't help that much.

You may feel anxious when you are pissed off at something. Your heart races how can she say this to me? Who does she think she is? 

Loneliness also drives you anxious. Meaningful human relationships are thus really important. Make sure you have your support system when you are anxious.

Tiredness is another factor that may make you feel anxious.  

After a long day at work or school, or after that nagging from the boss surely drives anyone crazy. 

For this, I recommend you to have a ‘me time’. Relax. Do anything that's gonna slow you down.  If you don't distract yourself you are going to overthink and worry. Try to do something that will make you feel good

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2. The way you feel is like clouds passing in the sky. They too shall pass. Everything will pass. When you are anxious, you need to change your state. And How to change the state? It's very very easy.  According to research in Japan, it was found that to change a state it takes only Six Deep Breathes. Six deep breaths can change somebody's state from anxiety to peace. Also, check-in your posture.

Inhale deeply for four seconds hold for seven seconds and exhale out deeply at eight. 

3. Anxiety comes from your thoughts. Feelings come from thoughts. We are in charge of our feelings and thoughts. Anxiety and excitement are both aroused emotions. So you can trick your brain in actually thinking you are excited when you are anxious. Here how you do it. 

Become self-aware when you are anxious. Then close your eyes and put your hand on your chest and breathe. Then say to yourself I'm excited as many times as possible. Then ask yourself what I'm excited about? Well, I can be excited about going to the gym later. Also, you can be grateful for something. It requires extreme self-awareness.

4. Well, right now most people get anxious when they can't control any situation. You get each morning you watch the news -somebody died or anything bad. This makes you feel anxious as you are not able to control it. 

You need to focus on what you can control. Can you control all the things you are feeling anxious about?  No. Well, it's ok. Then what can you control?  You can control yourself. You can control your thoughts and breathing. You can control what you are doing at this moment. So then what makes you happy? 

The thing is all you can control is yourself. You can only change yourself.

5. Ask yourself “ Am I okay at this moment?”. Well, I know you are worried about your future or that you got to pay your bills .no big deal. But are you ok at this moment?. 

Because anxiety comes from things that are possibly going to happen in the future. When emotion is high, logic is low. 

When you are in a better state your logic will be higher.

In research, it was found that eighty-five percent of what people worry about doesn't even happen and fifteen percent of things that did happen were easier to handle than they actually thought they would be. 

 

Follow These Steps And Say Bye To Anxiety

         

Follow these quick steps:

❤ Losen Yourself: 

If you are inside a room, open all the windows or run towards the balcony/ terrace.

If you are on your bed, keep the windows open and loosen up your clothes.

Let the external factors vanish that is causing you the anxiety.

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💆 Music can really capture you 

Create a playlist of songs that can really change your mood

(e.g. I have a playlist called breath which I play when I feel anxious and it has songs which take over my heart like Break Your Heart  by Taio Cruz, Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson, etc.)

The idea of listening to songs while anxious is that music easily takes over your heart and your brain gets distracted as it starts focusing on the song lyrics.

Always remember, don't listen to emotional songs when you have anxiety. I strictly mean it.

🎇 Get Distracted

😂😂Watch some funny videos: Don't forget YouTube has a collection of funny videos, all you got to do is search them and start watching. 

(I usually search for funny animal videos, funny toddler videos, Ellen tube, any talk show funny moments)

You can also go for comedy movies and short films.

🌞IF YOU START FEELING ANXIOUS IN THE MORNING:

Well, its the start of your beautiful day, and the bacteria of anxiousness has already taken over you.

All you got to do is, GO FOR A WALK, DO EXERCISE, SHAKE THAT BODY let that sexy body distract you.

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At times you get affected by the environment around you and it becomes important to escape from that place, no matter you are at home, working in the office or in school, you can always stand near an open window, breathe fresh air and try to think about stuff totally different.

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🌊Keeping your Body Hydrated helps reduce ANXIETY!

So next time don't forget to grab a glass of water.

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🎌Have You Ever Tried Anxiety Games?

There are a lot of anti-stress games available on Playstore and App store one of them is  Antistress. They really do work!

☝And one last advice that I follow :

I usually keep a small diary with me and write down my thoughts and sometimes I use some curse words to take out my feelings.

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These are some ways to keep yourself away from anxiety.

Hope my blog was useful to you.

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     💓Don't forget to comment so that  I can connect with you.

   May God Bless You With  A HAPPY HEART AND HAPPY MIND

 

Mood Swings And Periods

    To all the tough girls out there during their mood swings and those days before & during your periods, you are the strongest! 

You know how hard mood swings are (or maybe you don't  because you don't get  them, but you need to read this)

Let me make one thing clear, this article is regarding how much attention this topic needs but is still ignored by many!

 In case you don't know what are mood swings during periods are here's the science.

     It is thought that hormonal changes in the menstrual cycle (fluctuations in estrogen and progesterone levels) affect the mood of women and trigger negative emotions such as anger and irritability.

What happens before and during  periods(every single time)

Well, it's a long list:

 abdominal cramps, breakouts, tender breast, fatigue, bloating, bowel issue, headache, lower back pain, trouble sleeping, anxiety, heavy body, heavy heart, triggering emotions, and people around who don't understand how you feel.

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Being in mood swings is like holding on to one emotion right inside the heart, the brain becomes numb and the body is out of place. Mood swings make us look like we are doing fine but in reality, there is no feeling other than anxiety which flows through every blood vessel, tissue, and cell. There's a fine steady pain in the heart that we need to carry everywhere facing everyone and once we burst into tears, we cry for a longer duration ending up losing a lot of energy.

The "period" before getting periods is mostly dull, you end up arguing with your close ones, conversations turn into debates, turn into those "not today" days, and pissing off sustains till you get them(periods).

And Once You Get Them

It's you, the blood and the pain. The first two to three days are supposed to be intense and do vary with different bodies. Menstruation makes the body weak and when the abdominal cramps take over, fracture of blood walls can be felt.

She tough

 I mean just look at her she's a "Super Woman" every single woman because when all this goes on inside her body she still smiles, she works, she takes care of the entire family and she runs a business. 

Having a week full of blood flowing through her vagina and the mental alarm which rings every three to four hour after the pads are full she still acts like its normal just like her other non-menstrual days. 

https://www.practo.com/health-wiki/premenstrual-syndrome-pms-symptoms-and-treatment/59/article

 

Reproductive health professor John Guillebaud told Quartz that patients have described cramp pain as "almost as bad as having a heart attack".

This world would be such a better place if every woman going through this phase before and during periods is treated right and understood.

•  For those 4-5 days ask your mom, wife, to rest and contribute to your house chores with the rest of the family members. 
• Let your daughter, sister, wife take rest, and provide her with all her essentials.
• Ask your female employe/subordinates/assistants if it's okay for them to stay late or work extra before assigning anything new.
•  Make sure you have enough tampons, sanitary pads, etc at home.
• Even asking or showing concerns will make her feel better.

My Story:

I have gone through really crazy mood swings phase, there used to nights when I would cry for hours and not sleep the whole night. Due to severe anxiety, I was not able to work or focus on anything. I have even tried harming myself during my mood swings, and now when I look back I feel I have been so strong and have learned to control my emotions.

 Even today many people do not understand the importance of mental health and one of them is mood swings in women.

Mood swings occur every month before periods and women go through a real rollercoaster of emotions.

Grownup individuals should be aware of this mental health issue so that when a woman from their family goes through this phase every month, she has people around who support and understand her. 

If you are going through or have experienced any difficult phase in your life, comment on this blog so that I can connect with you because I know how you feel <3