Hi Everyone,
When anxiety strikes things can feel out of control within ourselves I understand.
I just wanted to list a few things that have helped me in the moment when anxiety strikes.
Try not to put your attention on what has caused you the anxiety instead redirect your attention to the present moment.
Follow your breathe use it as your anchor when your attention wonders from your breathe redirect it back to your breath, this will ground you in the moment.
Take long slow deep breathes.
Thoughts (in my experience with anxiety my anxiety can start to escalate due to my thoughts)... try not to question your thoughts or add to the thought, I have found that this will only escalate the anxiety.
We can experience the first thought but the trick is to notice this and then redirect your attention to something in the present moment and not on the thought, this way it stops the process of escalation. ( It takes practice).
"What we give attention to we give power to".
Try to just allow your thoughts to come and go, we can learn to be the watcher of our thoughts without getting caught up in them.
With practice we can all learn to choose our reactions to certain situations (including thoughts), in turn if we can learn to choose our reactions then this can either escalate your anxiety or decrease it.
All this takes practice 😀
Please add any more that has helped that you can think of.
