How to deal with Anxiety
Without Medication
When people find themselves in difficult situations which they feel has no solution they start
to have anxiety attacks, even panic attacks. Some will turn to drugs or alcohol, while others ask themselves
the question of how to deal with anxiety without medication or alcohol. They use what is called (AMS) anxiety
management strategies.
How to deal with anxiety without medication through re-mapping the
sub-conscious
As a how to deal with anxiety
without medication this strategy is mainly used to change the person from a worrier into a optimist. It is more of a mind reprogramming system. Our brain is like Google. You enter your
words and Google goes and find the pages that you have asked for. When a person worries they send a signal from
their conscious mind back into their sub-conscious mind, which in turn looks at all the possibilities that could go
wrong and return these negative thoughts back to the conscious, which in turn makes the person more anxious and so
it goes on.
This is where positive
thinking comes in. You cannot get rid of the negative thoughts in your mind (the mind remembers everything) but you
can bury them so deep with layers of positive thoughts, pushing the negative thoughts into your recycle bin. So
when someone starts thinking about their problem only positive solutions come into their
thinking.
How
To Manage Anxiety Without Medication with anxiety management
strategies.
Self help groups use a number
of methods which are sometimes called anxiety management strategies. These strategies work on a number of positive
steps, such as breathing controls - visualisation - re-mapping the sub-conscious and braking their problem down into easy steps which they can then deal with. All these strategies have
one thing in common, they all help the person form new habits in their thinking and in
their physical life.
How to deal with anxiety without medication through breathing
Breathing through the
diaphragm instead of the chest is an easy method to learn This method gives the person
control over themselves. Using the diaphragm instead of inhaling through the chest does a couple of things. It
makes the person focus more and by deep slow breathing they are able to oxygenated their
blood which in turn helps to relieve stress that has built up through their body.
How to
deal with anxiety without medication through Visualisation
This is becoming a more
popular way of how to deal with anxiety without medication as it can be used in everyday life. A person sits in a
comfortable chair, closes their eyes and looks at themselves in the situation they find themselves in. Through
their minds eye they play their problem through to see what might happen. Some people use a TV or a big cinema
screen in their visualisation, two ways to do this. One: They see the situation they are in and as they watch it
they make the TV or cinema screen smaller and smaller until their problem has gone. Two: They end their session and
see themselves solving their problem. In both cases what seems to happen is sometime
later ideas seem to jump into their minds with solutions to their problem
How to
deal with anxiety without medication through braking the problem into small easy
steps
Though the problem may seem
too large to handle sometimes braking it into smaller bits can help. Write the problem down on paper. Everything
has a starting point a middle and an ending and this is also true of problems.
Starting point. What happened to make this problem? is
it on a personal level or a financial level? write it down Middle: This is
normally the situation the person is in at that moment in time. Write what is happening down. The
end: Write down all the outcomes that could happen and the one you want to happen. Then work out a plan
that shows how to cope with each outcome. In other words there could be a number of outcomes that solve your
problems as they come up. ( Action kills worry and anxiety)

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