Control Your Anxiety in 7 Steps

Has anxiety ever seemed to dominate you so much at times that you couldn’t even accomplish simple tasks?

One reason for this dilemma is that whenever you’re anxious, worried, or nervous, you use up precious stores of emotional energy.

When this happens, you have no energy left to sustain your daily existence. You feel zapped. And you’ll continue to feel that way until you can alleviate some of your anxiety.

As you likely know all too well, lack of energy is just part of the negative impact that anxiety has on your life.

Anxiety seriously impedes both your mental and physical health.

Learning to control anxiety is one of the best things you can do for your wellbeing.

Following this 7-step process will put you back in charge: (in the video above, 2 additional steps are supplied)

1. Start a Worry List.
2. Get an old-fashioned spiral notebook specifically for your Worry List. When you start to feel anxious about something, write it down on your list.
3. Doing so will allow you to calm your chaotic thoughts and confidently move on with your day.
4. It gives you some control and even authority over the topic to list it and isolate it to a piece of paper.
5. Establish a time to worry each day.
6. As your worries sneak into your thoughts throughout the day, “gather them up” by jotting down those concerns onto your Worry List.
7. Then, decide on a specific time you’ll take out your list and worry each day.
8. By doing this you stop yourself from fighting against your worry (fighting it usually gives it more power), but, instead, you prevent “loose ends” by scheduling it so that it has less impact on you during the rest of your day and night.
9. You can set up as much time as you want — 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or even a whole hour to fret and worry. Most people find that the more they do this, the less time they need to worry.
10. Ask yourself, “Does this issue have a solution?”
11. If you can quickly determine whether the challenge at hand is solvable, you can then confidently proceed to put a solution into place to prevent future worry about that issue. Write it down on your list and cross that one off!
12. Acknowledge that some worries are not within your power to solve.
13. Write these difficulties on a separate piece of paper, place them in a balloon (or tie them on), and float them up into the sky.
14. Alternatively, you can burn them.
15. In essence, tell yourself you must say “good-bye” to these particular worries because they don’t really belong to you and you have no control over them.

Watch the video above all the way through for two additional steps to help you manage and even overcome anxiety.

When you practice these steps, you’ll be able to manage your anxiety better each day.

Plus, you’ll enjoy more emotional energy to spend living the good life you deserve.

To your peace,

Coach Lee | Subscribe on YouTube

Originally published at https://myanxietypeace.com on January 17, 2022.