Antidote for Anxiety

In clinical notes and literature, anxiety is often documented as both a psychological and physiological phenomonenon. Our minds may be cluttered with worry and rumination. Our bodies may feel agitated and worked up, resulting in physical symptoms like shallow breathing or racing heart. Irritability and fear are common to our anxious emotional experience.

When we see how thoughts, feelings and behaviors influence one another, we recognize that changing some element of our anxious experience is likely to impact another. 

Instead of getting frustrated at our busy minds, or reactive that we can’t sit still, be kind to yourself.

Pause for 10-30 seconds to feel the experience of your breath. In through your nose and out through your mouth. Regulate your breath in order to reset. Be kind to yourself.

Kindness for our anxious self is the salve that soothes psychological and physiological experiences of anxiety. 

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