How can I shut my brain off and become completely free from anxiety?
I want to shut my brain off and be completely free from anxiety.
I understand how you feel when your brain repeatedly thinks “why you are not succeeding in life”
“Everyone has a great life except you”
“how badly I have suffered in my past”
This kind of stuff sounds really harsh and is always ready to break ourselves completely.
Well honestly speaking, there is no way you can shut your brain off completely. But listen, I had a great solution for this: you can reduce anxiety without shutting your brain off. Sounds great!
Let’s dive into it.
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How reducing anxiety affects your life
Before understanding this, let’s first understand how anxiety affects you deeply.
Well, I am sure you’re thinking, nothing bad can happen just like you are facing. but this was only the one aspect you have seen. However, there are lots of people you probably have seen. They are suffering a lot in their lives.
Can you imagine how they felt when their parents passed away, how they felt when they lost their job leaving him hopeless in life?
Can you feel their emotional baggage, how were they able to overcome their anxiety of losing their parents or how they survived when they lost their job while their financial condition was not resting safely?
How anxiety kills lives
the term anxiety can feel common for you but did you ever see the power of anxiety? Taking the lives of Innocence. their only fault was that they had faced some difficult situations in their life which would affect them badly.
How anxiety destroys your life
have you ever seen how a tsunami or landslide destroys everything, those things which came in contact only left behind breaking a small piece? Anxiety is also a tsunami or landslide when it comes to your life that only leaves you after breaking from everywhere.
How and it made you hopeless
anxiety is not only a word it has the power to make you feeble or weak completely. Only a small piece of anxiety is maximum to leave you hopeless in life.
(E.g.)
Sam is a 15-year-old boy. In the previous year, he lost his left leg when he was completely terrified. Anxiety has caught him badly, he stops talking with her parents’ even friends and only remains alone in a room.
One day he thought of suicide or killing herself when he was trying to commit suicide. Someone saved her life but he lost her leg in a car accident.
This is how it affects your life so how can you cure yourself with this?
What is the easy tactic to overcome anxiety?
As you know, how deeply anxiety affects you.
So what are the easy way to reduce anxiety or live in a mindful way
Well you can find tons of way to overcome this in different ways
All of them are fine but you have to find the right technique, which will help you because every technique can’t suit everyone.
You have to choose the right one for yourself, which you find comfortable.
I’ll share some of the easy technique which suits everyone but exceptional is also so there
Don’t take seriously all the things
By not taking it seriously I mean to be a fun full person, try to find happiness in every small thing I know becoming a lightweight person in life is not easy for anyone because life always throws you in difficult situations. but when you stop taking things seriously you can find happiness everywhere you want.
Start tracking your life
when you start tracking your life you become aware where you putting your most of the time and how can you optimize that properly one thing I want to share with you don’t let yourself completely free mostly anxiety or depression came when you are free or doing nothing try to learn new skills to optimize your time well I don’t mean to stop enjoying your life or taking time to relax, just don’t waste your time.
Express gratitude every day
This is the most powerful technique you can implement in your life to overcome your anxiety. Expressing gratitude towards life is not a common thing that can impact you deeply. If you express thankfulness to life, it will help you to feel inner peace. you can also visualize it, it is also the form of expressing gratitude
(E.g.)
You can visualize anytime you want but the morning or before bedtime is great for anyone who wants to express thankfulness for life.
Just close your eyes and say I am accepting myself as I’m, now express thankfulness for all the things that you own in life. Say I am thankful for all the things being with me.
You can also write your thoughts in your personal diary.
Now the above-mentioned techniques will definitely help you.
But what, if I’m currently emerging from anxiety, how can I cure myself?
For this situation, I’m sharing one of the easiest techniques you can implement to get greater results fast.
That is “Mindfulness”
Can practicing Mindfulness reduces anxiety
Mindfulness is the easiest method for reducing anxiety or depression from your life
did you know mindfulness has been proven to overcome mental disorder or illness in life and give you inner satisfaction
Previously this was not popular as it currently, but now it spreading all over the world scientist believe that it has the magical power to heal our inner self
mindfulness has the superpower to heal and polish our inner self if you are not familiar with mindfulness then
mindfulness is actually not a technique it’s a state of mind where we being in a present movement completely by enjoying the presence of our inner self or nature
if mindfulness is really beneficial then how can I achieve the mindfulness state?
if you want an advanced guide to this you can check out my previous post
Now I am sharing some easy techniques for you, so you can practice mindfulness and reduce your anxiety easily.
Mindfulness breathing
mindfulness breathing is a basic technique to help Being in the present moment.you can practice this anywhere you want if you feel stressed or frustrated just shift your attention towards your breath and see the natural rhythm of the breath see how you deeply inhaling or exhaling at a time this will make you aware of yourself so if anxiety stress try to enter within you you become aware of that and act accordingly
Mindful body scan
A body scan is also a great way to heal your body and remove anxiety and stress, the only thing you have to do is observe your body sensations and how you feel when a certain emotion is evoked within you. where this emotion is coming and where it’s going just observe all your sensation
Moment meditation
Moment meditation is like taking a break from your busy life and stretching yourself or feeling the presence of nature. going to a forest walk and observing all the things that are happening like birds are chirping, trees leaves are falling on the ground, everything else you can observe this is a great way to make yourself free from all the tension and anxiety.
(E.g)
There is not only forest walk, but you can also go wherever you want like a vacation, traveling in different places are the best for you to acknowledge new experiences in life which will ultimately make your life happy and peace
How much time does it take to overcome anxiety?
The most professional answer to this question is “it depends“
But wait if you want more than that, then I had tried my best answer this
so, first of all, I want you to know anxiety is really important for us to live a happy life. But in a small quantity, however, if you get over then that it causes the problem
Let’s consider you are living a stress-Free life, where you never ever feel any stressful situations
would you think you will be able to configure the difference between sadness for happiness
Never!
This is why anxiety or stress is important in life; it makes you feel happy and sad and all the emotions in life.
there are lots of factors which depends on how much time it takes to overcome it
Your situation
the situation means how much deeper you have caught in that, it’s not possible to remove this in a single day, because your mind was continuously recognizing you about your problem so it takes time
Type of stress
type of stress also consider when it comes to defining time to overcome anxiety, if you currently emerge from an accidental situation then this stress is gone after some while but if you lost your leg or even hand on that accident then it may take time to overcome with this stress
Your behavior
your behavior is also important if you want to know the time to overcome anxiety how much seriously you have taken your situation is also a factor for this
Prepare yourself for upcoming problems
Now you know all about the anxiety
so if you are not facing it currently that does not mean you will be free from that in your life
However you can prepare yourself for this, so when it comes in your life you will be ready to fight with that
So how can I prepare myself?
As I previously mentioned all the think you need to know to overcome the anxiety you can follow those steps if you want to overcome stress
Conclusion
Anxiety is really important for us, so don’t try to keep yourself away from it because as much you try to away yourself from it, it will come closer to you
Anxiety can harm you deeply
as you know if you get caught by stress or anxiety, it can destroy your life completely, so be aware of that
Build yourself as a fun full person
becoming a fun full person is really important for you it will make your life more satisfactory, as you Express gratitude towards your life you will gain more inner peace
Try mindfulness
mindfulness is a great way you can practice to cure your anxiety but remember it takes time so keep patience
If you have any opinion about practicing Mindfulness or reducing anxiety then know me in the comments