You can’t remember a time when you didn’t worry, feel nervous, constantly have irrational fears, have a good nights sleep, feel self-conscious, have persistent self-doubt and go into panic mode.
Does this sound like you right now?
You’ve been:
- Excessively worrying – you persistently worry all day even about the smallest of things, which interferes with your everyday life.
- Experiencing irrational fears – your fears become overwhelming and crippling, and disrupt your everyday life.
- Having sleep problems – you chronically lie awake with a racing mind, tossing and turning at night feeling agitated and worried unable to calm yourself down.
- Suffering from digestive issues and muscle tension – you suffer stomach cramps, ‘anxiety in your gut’ along with ‘jaw clenching’ and neck pain.
- Feeling panicky – a sudden gripping feeling of fear and helplessness where you can’t breathe, your heart races, your hands tingle, you sweat, you feel weak, your chest hurts and you feel dizzy.
- By knowing happiness is a state of mind; you can look at your life, cut out bad habits and people, and make changes in your own internal expectations.
- Stop living someone else’s life – ask yourself if you are still trying to please your parents or your children? You are the creator of your life, you set the boundaries, you decide how to spend your time – you will develop courage by following your right path and not someone else’s.
- Journal your thoughts down on a daily basis can act as a profound catharsis. Limit your time on social media, which is proven to make you feel ‘inadequate’ as unconsciously you compare yourself to others.
- Create a very specific goal – for example – ‘ By the end of next month, I want to be able to drive to work without fear’, and start visualizing yourself doing this with confidence.
- Look at changing your lifestyle – once you make some physical, emotional, mental and spiritual changes in your life you are much less likely to slip back into your ‘old anxiety ways.’ Look at taking more exercise and if you aren’t doing anything right now, make yourself walk for 30 minutes a day.