Anxiety has become a growing concern worldwide, and it has had a negative impact on billions of lives, both mentally and physically, from mild to crippling.
The great thing to know is that anxiety is not a new disease as if it has appeared out of nowhere like COVID-19. You can search through many ancient writings and will find it mentioned. With that in mind, there have been thousands of years of research and studies on the subject that can help us find the best remedy or techniques to help us control our anxiety.
The difference in our day is that there are so many more man-made situations that cause uncertainty and stress around us, which trigger an increase in our anxiety.
Trusting and knowing that there is help will give us peace of mind.
In a world full of anxiety stressors, it is wise to have a bag full of strategies and preventative measures in place that will help us stay on track.
If we are already overcome by anxiety, we need to look for real help.
It is not always the person with many degrees and diplomas behind his name that can do the best job. Very often it is the caring individual with personal experience and a desire to help that can assist us to get the best results.
Symptoms of Anxiety
Many potential causes of anxiety are external in nature, real dangers like being on foot with nothing between you and a lion 100 meters away in the open field. On the other hand, we could suffer from imagined fears, like worrying "what might happen if I possibly get a flat tyre on my way to my destination" even though there are no nails stuck in the tyre or lying on the road. The negatively charged calculations of your mind are the cause of your anxiety even though you have a fully pumped spare wheel on board.
Someone like that has adopted negative thought patterns that cause them to experience chronic anxiety; they need the right kind of help to correct their negative expectations in life.
Mental health professionals have identified a chock-full of anxiety disorders, with generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) being the most common ones. Many patients who suffer from panic attacks would describe it as though they are having a heart attack; however, the intensity of physical, mental and emotional symptoms depends on the severity of their condition.
What are a few ways that anxiety can manifest itself in the mind and body?
Symptoms of mental and emotional anxiety include:
- Not being able to take your mind off your problems
- Always expecting dangerous situations that bring about dread or disaster
- Not able to focus or having your mind on anything else other than your worries
- Wanting to hide from life's activities
- Sleeping issues which in turn start impacting on the physical
Symptoms and manifestations of physical anxiety include:
- Abnormal and quick breathing
- Shaky
- Being frail and worn out
- Heart palpitations
- Clamminess
- Gastrointestinal troubles
- Being nervous and behaving restlessly with tightness in the body
- Chest pain
The Main Causes of Anxiety
To help explain how anxiety moves from being a mental to a physical ailment, try and picture the following scenario:
Just imagine you are sitting on a balmy day feeling calm and mellow under a tree with a stream running past you; everything is going well. Then, someone approaches you and mentions that your son who is travelling by plane to another country could possibly be on the flight that has just been reported to have crashed.
What happens?
That message hits your eardrum as something very bad; an anxious response follows and all of a sudden you now are numbed with worry and have acid in your stomach, with cramping and your whole life turned upside down. Until it has been confirmed that your son is safe, you feel physically ill.
This ill feeling continues even when the cause is no longer present. Only once your circulatory system has been cleared of the stress hormones will you be able to start feeling normal again.
The opposite is also true if you are having the worst day full of anxieties and someone approaches you with unbelievably good news. All of a sudden your body releases happy hormones within your circulatory system that neutralise the anxiety hormones instantly.
Why?
The way that your brain has been wired by life works either for or against your sanity, even on a subconscious level.
As soon as we can grasp that making positive changes to our reasoning is possible, it will become a key that will help us win the fight against ingrained anxiety. We will learn how to switch it off and counteract its vicious side effects on our physical health such as a surge in blood pressure. This may not lead to hypertension, but prolonged periods of anxiety can damage the blood vessels and cause a slew of medical conditions.
That's where you may need someone else who is knowledgeable enough and able to help you take corrective steps. There are things that can be done about anxiety and we must refuse to believe it is a hopeless condition inherited from our parents that we can do nothing about.
A feeling of unexplained anxiety can also have a direct link to heavy metal or other forms of toxicity in the body.
The list of causes is endless, but just as long is a list of things that can help us neutralise anxiety or every shade or color of it.
Anxiety left unchecked will ruin your precious health.
Things You Can Do to Help With Your Anxiety
First of all, acknowledge that some stress is unavoidable. Worrying about things you cannot prevent may result in chronic stress, a long-term condition that can lead to a mental health condition, like major depressive disorder, or heart disease.
Accept the fact that perceived fears do not always come true. Avoid expecting perfection from yourself and others; rather, have reachable standards.
Be more organised and have a routine. Avoid being idle when waiting. Make sure you have something handy to occupy your mind with, like sorting your calendar.
Be balanced when it comes to the amount of work you try to accomplish in an allotted time
Make sure you schedule time for leisure like being out in nature or sunshine. Here are other ways to improve your quality of life:
- Get enough sleep
- Take care of your health
- Exercise can lift your mood quickly, helping you to reassess things
- Breathing techniques will balance your heart rate variability to calm you
- Avoid harmful habits that ruin your health like smoking and heavy drinking
Get Support
So, what are you going to do about your anxiety today that will help you to overcome its nasty effects on your joy and vitality?
What are some practical ways to help you manage your anxiety?
Start your journey towards controlling your emotions by calling or speaking to someone that you know will be able to listen to you and help you to be more constructive in your thought patterns. It could be your mother or any family member or close friend. Or, find someone who has personally conquered anxiety to help you.
If you need more assistance, book in for an appointment with Johan at Pure-Pro Health who has over the past 36 years assessed and assisted thousands of people back to good health using various well proven methods:
- Face-to-face health consulting with or without Computerised Electro Acupuncture Assessment Equipment by Dr Voll
- Vacu-Flex Health Analysis and Therapy via Your Feet, Therapeutic Foot Reflexology by Hand
- Foot Manipulation Corrective Therapy, Dietary Plans
- Fasting and focussed health protocols to support your specific health condition
We also use specific questionnaires in harmony with your doctor's direction to supply you with top-quality practitioner range nutritional supplements that are tailored to your specific anxiety levels and other health needs.
We also make use of:
Full spectrum infrared sauna, Biopulse detoxification, PEMF cell Reconditioning, Bioptron Light, Spine Adjust Teeter Hang Up Inversion, Alznner Corrective Orthotics, Ionised Water and more.
At Pure-Pro Health we help you regain your happiness.
Author and Trusted NTP practitioner |
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Johan RedelinghuysPure-Pro Health |
Johan Gail and Pure-Pro Health focus on discovering & correcting the underlying causes of health problems rather than merely treating symptoms. |
