5 Ways to Kill Your Anxiety

Anxiety comes from your thoughts, and most of the time its thoughts about the future.I'm going to give you the five strategies on how to overcome that anxiety.

1. H.A.L.T

This stands for hungry, angry, lonely, and tired. 

Asking yourself the following question can change the way that you think, and when you change the way you think, you change the way you feel.

Am I hungry, angry, lonely, or tired? 

Make a plan to change your state once you've figured out what that is. 

2. Change your breathing

If you're feeling anxious, check in with your chest, check in with your breath, are you sitting up straight? 

One way that helps is, breathing in for four seconds, holding for seven seconds, breathing out for eight seconds, and repeating six times. 

Breathing will change your anxiety and change your state faster than almost anything else. 

3. Anxiety and excitement are the same in the human body 

The only thing that changes them is your thoughts around them. When you're anxious, your heart starts to beat faster, your body starts to create cortisol, your brainwaves start to change. It's the same thing that happens when you're excited. 

Next time you feel anxious, tell yourself this, “I'm excited, I'm excited, I'm excited, I'm excited.” You're tricking your brain, into believing you're excited instead of anxious and begin to feel better. 

4. Focus on what you can control

You're not anxious about what you can control, you're anxious about what you can't control, so you're having a control issue, yet there's nothing you can do about it. 

Instead, start focusing on what you can control. Focus on you, your breathing, your body, going for a run.

You can't change anybody or anything outside of you, so why don't you focus on the things that you can change? 

5. Ask yourself, "Am I okay?”

Not just, “Am I okay”, but, “Am I okay, right now, at this moment?” You're probably fine! 

If you come from a place of calm, cool, and collected, you're usually going to find the answers to the problems that need to be solved, but if you're coming from a place of stress and anxiety, it's going to be a lot harder to figure out what you need to do. When emotion is high, logic is low.