How to relieve anxiety?

  In recent years, as the pace of people’s life and work accelerates, the sense of time urgency and the pressure of competition is increasing, making more and more people feel burdened with heavy pressure, and more and more people are suffering from anxiety. In fact, in daily life, when faced with stress or danger, every one of us feels worried, afraid or anxious. In most cases, these emotional reactions are normal. If the reaction is excessively strong, or when a reaction that does not match the facts is experienced, then it can interfere with the normal order of life. If there is often a nervous fear without a clear object or fixed content for no reason, and if you are on edge, you may have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety sufferers are very distressed about their problems and try to control the situation, but when they feel out of control, anxiety is more like “adding fuel to the fire”. In fact, the response to anxiety can be corrected from the cognitive and behavioral aspects, so as to face it calmly.  First of all, it is important to have a certain understanding of the causes of anxiety, as there is no such thing as anxiety for no reason. According to cognitive theory, various one-sided or wrong ideas will lead to a vicious circle of worries and escalate anxiety. If a person is in a rush to catch a bus, he will think, “I will be late if I miss this class, my boss will have a problem if I am late, I will bear the brunt of the company’s layoffs, and I will have nothing if it is hard to find a job now that the employment environment is so severe. Under the influence of such thinking, people are in a state of “fighting” all day long. There is a very meaningful saying in the Bible: “May God give me a calm heart to accept the unchangeable with peace; a brave heart to have the courage to change the changeable; and a wise heart to distinguish between the two! , the ability to recognize what we can change and what we have to accept can reduce anxiety.  In addition, when there is anxiety, you can do some relaxation training, such as deep breathing, gradual muscle relaxation method. Deep breathing, when in a long-term anxiety state, there will be panic, breathing faster, muscle tension, head discomfort, shaking limbs and other uncomfortable reactions, through deep breathing and relaxation techniques, can reduce these uncomfortable reactions. The main points of the correct way of deep breathing are: maintaining a slow and even breathing rate, such as inhaling slowly, holding the breath slightly, inhaling the air deeply into the lungs, and then slowly exhaling the air out. You should be able to feel the even rise and fall of your chest and abdomen while breathing deeply.  Relaxation training mainly adopts the progressive muscle relaxation method, through repeated alternating training of contraction and relaxation of the main muscles of the whole body, usually starting from the head and face, gradually relaxing until the whole body muscles relax. The main purpose is to make people experience the different sensations of tension and relaxation, so that they can better understand the tension response and finally achieve the purpose of mind and body relaxation, and can play a role in adjusting the function of various organs of the body. Relaxation can produce the opposite physiological effects of the anxiety response, such as a slowing of the heart rate, an increase in peripheral blood flow, a calming of breathing, and a relaxation of the neuromuscles. There are many ways to produce deep muscle relaxation, such as yoga, Zen, pranayama, contemplation, and other techniques.  In modern society, “anxiety” seems to be everywhere. There are countless words in life called “should”, “must”, “in case”, “might”, all of which are more or less present in our minds. When we feel that the world is changing too fast and we can control less and less, this seed of “anxiety” quietly germinates and grows. Due to changes in life, the environment and other factors, people who think they have everything in place and can always keep a calm state of mind, may also from time to time suddenly feel a sense of anxiety. In fact, there must be near worries, moderate anxiety can motivate us to play talent, when excessive anxiety, we must learn to recognize its true nature, through appropriate relaxation adjustment, you can calmly face, do not be surprised.