Coping with anxiety is possible for most people and you may even succeed in eliminating it with a new energy technique

Coping with anxiety means being able to tolerate it which is a big ask because it is not always at the same level so you have to employ different methods all the time - it is not constant.

Here are some general strategies for coping with anxiety which will be followed by a detailed explanation of a new energy technique that could enable you to cure your condition on your own at no cost. Although this has helped many people it is not a guarantee and I urge you to first read this brief disclaimer.

General strategies for coping with anxiety

• What is the worst that can happen?

  One way of coping with anxiety is to ask yourself "What is the worst thing that could happen?" because this takes away the unknown. It tells you exactly what may happen and although it can be painful knowledge it is better than having a big "unknown" floating around in your mind causing you more anxiety symptoms.

  This process may involve trying to think of all the problems that are confronting you and applying this strategy to each of them one at a time. It should clear your head quite a bit.

• Taking action

  "Stop procrastinating and get the job done" is a silly statement that can be found on many sites that offer strategies for coping with anxiety because it ignores the fact that the anxiety STOPS you from getting jobs done. The free energy technique you will learn below can clear the mind to enable you to take action. Then the above statement will have meaning and will work for you.

• Exercise and/or deep breathing are both good ways to cope with anxiety

  Exercise works best when you are reasonably fit, because if you are not fit the exercise will be short and intense and not able to help your anxiety as much as 30 mins of strong breathing type of exercise.

  There are two things to do for your regular exercise which are:

  trying to clear your mind more to become motivated,

  and gradually doing more exercise each day.

  Start with a 5 min. walk each day for 1 week, extend it to 10 mins three times the next week as well as 5 mins each other day and continue to build it up a bit more each week trying to exercise every day.

  Deep breathing is another way that can help quickly to relax the mind and body. You must breathe with your diaphragm muscle below your ribs. At first it seems impossible, but just try it a few times and you will quickly get the hang of it.

  Here is how it is done

  As you breathe in, force your diaphragm muscle to extend out. That means as your chest increases in size you also push out your stomach region where the diaphragm muscle is situated.

  This muscle pulls down and out when you breathe in to create a vacuum in your lungs which then fill with air. When you breathe out it pushes upwards and forces the air out, that is when it feels like your stomach is pulling in.

  To breathe in push the stomach out, to breathe out push it in.

  If you sit in a chair and focus on that for a minute or two you will immediately feel calmer. Do not let your thoughts go elsewhere, keep them on the breathing which will help you cope with anxiety. The longer you do it, the better you will feel and it is a great way to get a good sleep if you do it in bed. Keep concentrating on your deep breathing until you fall asleep.

• Reducing your aim for perfection

  No one is perfect. Tell yourself this and try to reduce your anxiety on guilt for not being good enough and for self doubt. There are many things that other people do that are not quite right. You are human, you make mistakes and you try to learn from those. When you make repetitive mistakes you start to think there is something wrong with you and you feel very guilty. You also feel that you should be perfect to redeem yourself for past mistakes.

  Trying to be perfect definitely induces more anxiety especially when you make another mistake after trying so hard to be perfect. Making mistakes is usually not as bad as how you feel about it afterward.

  When you learn to accept some things without guilt your anxiety will decrease.

There are many more ways to cope with anxiety. It is difficult to know them all and to write about them all, but a new energy technique is proving to be one of the most effective.

New energy technique "Patting" may help you cope with anxiety quickly

The important thing is to focus your mind on a specific feeling that you had at a specific time during a specific event, or to focus your mind on a present anxiety feeling.

To do this you will have to try to break up your anxiety into separate parts and do the patting for each feeling for each part. It is not as hard or as time consuming as it sounds. To find out more about how patting began go to a brief history of energy techniques.

The patting technique

You will lso be shown how to make a setup phrase which you say three times as you pat on the hand point, then you keep that thought in your mind and pat about seven times on each of the other points.

It is done quickly and can take less than a minute. The result is normally a strong reduction in your anxiety immediately, but you must know which anxiety or it will seem to be ineffective.

For instance if you felt highly anxious about a job interview it might break down to multiple feelings of perhaps self doubt, embarrassment, disappointment, ridicule or even anger. You need to identify one of those and do the patting for just that one.

If it suddenly disappears after patting, but you still feel anxious it is because you still have the other anxieties, not that it did not work. Then you pat for one of the other anxieties, then another until they are all gone.

The instructions are on another page and they run across three or four pages, each of which will show you another part of the technique and those pages were written with a romance theme.

Just substitute your anxiety or feelings where they are specific to romance, because the instructions for anxiety are exactly the same. You can start learning now at Romance Tips Three.

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