How to Deal With Anxiety | grounding yourself
Hello, Explorers!
I wanted to talk about how to deal with anxiety and the ways in which we can cope with it a little better in our everyday lives. Anxiety is something that can affect any one of us. And it can range from being a very lighthearted feeling in the back of our minds to be a very crippling feeling that can cause an incredible amount of overwhelm and stress.
Anxiety can feel like an excessive amount of worrying, about little things or big things. It really doesn't matter what we feel anxious about, but what matters the most is how to deal with the feeling of anxiety and how we can learn to cope with it so that we can not only just eliminate it, but most importantly, learn how to cope with it so that it becomes easier.
And it becomes a little bit more simple in how we recognize it, what causes it and how we can deal with it.
There are so many ways to physically and visibly see what anxiety looks like in a person, whether it's feeling your heart, race, or feeling excessive worrying in your head toe, tapping or biting your nails, or suddenly perspiring and feeling nervous, feeling self-conscious all of these signs are very good indicators that you might be dealing with anxiety or are feeling anxious about something coming up, something underlying or something that you have been thinking about for some time.
Now, anxiety can feel as small as a nudge in the back of your mind, to a severe, as constant stress worrying, and feeling physically ill. The anxiousness we feel about the things we might worry about can also range with them being as something as simple as forgetting to lock the door, being nervous for a job interview, not knowing what to say in an upcoming speech feeling.
Self-Conscious when trying to talk to people or being in the presence of others or a common one is being uncertain about what the future may hold and being out of your comfort zone. No matter what you may be feeling anxious about, there are a few ways that you can deal with anxiety in your everyday life. Three of my favorite.
Ways to deal with my own personal anxiety are very well intertwined with each other, starting with being one with nature. If you go outside even to the nearest park, just sit down and listen to the birds, chirp feeling the cool breeze around you. And just visually looking out into the greenery. You will start feeling relaxed and having some breathing exercises. Very deep breathing exercises can help in stopping your heart race so quickly going to the beach or any body of water is also incredibly relaxing.
Just seeing the waves, move back and forth, filling up the space and feeling that cool breeze and smelling the salt in the air and seeing the sky open up for you. All of these things make you feel one with nature. Now, the next piece of advice that I practice myself is to feel small, feeling small is a very interesting feeling because it takes some practice. And after a while, it becomes extremely useful.
Once you're out in nature and looking around you, looking at all the greenery, the waves, the birds, all the beautiful colors start feeling that you are incredibly small, realize that the world is so much bigger than you so much bigger than your problems than the issues than anything that is set before you right now, think about how you are only one person among all these organisms that are living on earth.
Just like a drop of water is so small compared to an entire ocean beyond us. There are millions and millions of people all dealing with their own problems. Just like there are stars in the universe. The moment we start to feel small, so do our problems. And we realize that the world is so much bigger than just us. My third piece of advice is to ground yourself, to feel grounded is to feel humbled by your own experiences, by your own life, and from your sense of being to ground yourself.
And to feel grounded to the earth is to feel all your five senses, to feel everything around you, from where you're standing to, what you're seeing, what you're smelling, what you're experiencing, what you're hearing, feeling grounded as the best way to connect yourself to nature and the rest of the world, to feel grounded is to take away your focus from your issues or problems that you may be facing the moment.
And instead, turn that focus back onto you back onto the person that you are and what your purpose is dealing with. Anxiety is not an easy, quick fix, but a lifetime of practice realization recognition, seeing the causes of it, and finding ways to deal with it every day. The more we learn how to recognize our anxiety and the ways that work for us, the more we realize that our anxiety is usually something that we can minimize and cope with.
And the more we go out in nature feel grounded and feel small compared to the rest of the world. The more we are suited to see that we can do anything. We put our minds to, we can find a way to deal with our problems and we have the power to find joy and happiness in our everyday lives.
Enjoy!
Goodbye, Explorers!
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