Anxious Thoughts Can Seriously Lower Your Quality of Life – Here’s How You Deal With Them…
Anxious thoughts can dominate a person’s mind when the mind is tired either emotionally, or physically, or even mentally. This is how it works…
- Generally speaking, the dominance of anxious thoughts starts with exhaustion, especially physical exhaustion.
- When a person works too hard and doesn’t sleep enough, their body becomes tired and this affects the mind. The mind then tends to become not completely rational. In other words, when a person worries about something that is really not something that they would normally worry about, then mind doesn’t reject this worry as it should, but instead accepts the worries as facts.
- Now, because the mind accepts the worries as fact, the person naturally becomes anxious, and the more anxious they are, the more affected the mind is, and the more its rationality is subdued. In other towards, the more anxious you become, the less you’re able to cope with that anxiety.
- Often enough the thoughts that come to mind are the thoughts that are not backed up by logic, like ‘No one values me’. Now, this is obviously a thought that is ridiculous, but which can seem very believable to a person thinking it at that time.
Anxious thoughts dominate the more you try to suppress them!
The real problem with anxious thoughts is that they lead to anxious thinking! Because being anxious and worrying about just about everything is just about the diametric opposite to a happy and contented existence.
The worst part is the way the human mind works: the more you try to suppress this anxiousness, the more it begins to dominate your thoughts, because in trying to suppress your anxiousness you are unconsciously focusing all the power of your mind upon that anxiousness.
And the more anxious you become, the more things you have to worry about.
For example, if you feel anxious all the time, you feel that you will never live a life that is free of anxiety, or free of the fear of having a panic attack.
Not only that, but when a panic attack occurs, the physical symptoms of the panic attack are extremely distressing as well, and you may wonder if you ever can live a life that is free of the fear of experiencing these symptoms.
Acceptance is key to controlling anxiety!
Now, one thing that is crucially important is to not deliberately try to control the anxious thoughts. The way your mind works, the more you try not to think of something, the more your mind will be tempted to think of the very same thing.
Therefore, trying to force the anxious thoughts away with the will is self defeating, because the more you try to force the anxious thoughts away, the more you keep thinking of it, obviously.
The key to controlling anxiety is not to force away anxious thoughts or to try to push them to the back of your mind, but rather to accept them and so to learn to control your intense reaction to them.
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Now if I could just follow all of your wonderful advice. As always, your take is not only useful in the business world but can easily transfer to the personal and intimate worlds as well.
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Enjoyed your article! For better or worse, I tend to plow my way through situations that create anxiety … well, for me that’s about a little phobia I have about heights. I managed to overcome my fear of flying by flying … a LOT. But I still have a thing about glass elevators and driving over expansion bridges that involves full blown panic. I don’t let it stop me, but to say it’s not a pleasant experience would be a gross understatement. Fortunately, we have few glass elevators and no expansion bridges in Hawaii!
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Hey Edyta,
This is a very important article with lots of useful tips and “how to” for many people.
Anxiety can lead many people to worry more. This is definitely not healthy and the worst is that the situation can be too negative. It can also bring down any person’s self esteem.
You have shared a brilliant content which can help many people who is in this situation. Thanks again, friend !
Cheers
Pearly
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I was nodding all the way through your post!
I have learned lately (too) that the best way to help myself is to accept my feelings when I am not feeling too good.
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One of the best ways to learn acceptance is through yoga and meditation. The act of learning to be still while gently moving the body literally helps us change the ebb and flow of the worry within. I also personally find that running is a form of relaxation, de-stressing, and meditation for me.
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I have had to learn how to relax and let my thoughts go! it has taken years for me to learn how to manage anxiety. However, finally I learned that Faith and worry don’t live together. as my Faith in God has grown, I have learned to leave worry at His door and through the power of prayer, I have complete peace in my life. That doesn’t mean that I don’t have challenges but I manage them without anxiety. It has allowed my adrenals to recover from total fatigue.
Clare
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Edyta,
You have put all your readers and myself to a challenge. You have exposed a great mystery and I would love to share my experience.
Edyta, you have a way that is unique and make us all wake-up to understand that emotions may pop up and we can control the outcome.
Not listing and acting on impulse when it comes to all the negative emotions, which you have vividly put upon us. We will get all through that one moment that will change our way of feeling anxiety. It is through life experiences which were uncomfortable, and caused us mental pain we have this feeling of being overwhelmed in similar situations that seem to repeat it self.
Hey, just get over being one to act on your first impulses and you will not get overwhelmed. Then have a support team waiting for your call to pull you back into being the blessed person you truly are.
Your time and energy should not be accepting any kind of feeling of being out of control of your thoughts. That is what anxiety is a emotional feeling of being overwhelmed. In English a person not knowing what to do in any given situation.
This is why if nothing else you get from this article, and all the comments. Just realize that you are not alone and everything is going to still move forward no matter what you get weak with how to respond and take a positive step to resolving that given issue with passionate people who support you.
This article goes to show everyone of us needs to be involved with a group of supportive people. Those who will help us break things down in a way to make us feel we are not alone. People who show us clarity in a time we feel overwhelmed based on lack of knowledge and the steps that are imperative to take. Nothing less than guidance and support to get us out of this negative emotional state.
Your one of our greatest visionaries and coaches in this industry. I am proud to call you a friend of true support. I pray you will continue to give us topic which will help the masses to expand their understand on how to deal with stressful situation.
Thank you for all the support you continue to give without asking us for some hidden agenda to take action to purchase things. Your truly a unique coach and should understand the effect you have on all of us.
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