How much do you know about anxiety and relaxation?

  Anxiety is an emotion, and patients with anxiety often have all kinds of unfavorable negative guesses about possible future situations, resulting in tension, anxiety and fear.  Normal people also have anxiety, and in a sense, human survival depends on the existence of anxiety. Usually we will look around when crossing the road, a car passing in front of us, we will produce anxiety nervous feeling, the green light on the sidewalk before crossing the road from the sidewalk appearance, anxiety naturally released, if there is no anxiety nervous feeling, indifferent to cross the road, the consequences can be imagined. The same appropriate anxiety can also better help our work and study, every year before the midterm, college entrance exams, students and job seekers will produce moderate anxiety, this anxiety tension can keep people’s alertness and stress levels, so that its potential to be fully developed. Normal people’s anxiety is also called reality anxiety, as long as the future happenings can be successfully completed, the anxiety disappears.  The anxiety of people with anxiety disorders is often an anticipatory anxiety. Take insomnia for example, anxiety patients with insomnia to enter the most prominent difficulties, day and night are thinking “how can not sleep tonight?” After lying in bed, the patient tossed and turned and could not sleep, and as a result, the more you think, the more you can not sleep, and over time, the patient’s fear of sleep, so vicious circle, insomnia is becoming more and more serious.  Patients with anxiety disorders are constantly worried, distressed and irritated about things that have not happened. So all day long, they are worried, panic, shortness of breath, frequent urination, urgent urination, rubbing their hands and feet, sighing, appearing sweaty hands and feet, trembling and other phenomena of plant nervous dysfunction.  The treatment of anxiety disorders includes medication and psychotherapy, and psychotherapy with behavioral relaxation training is preferred. We see anxiety disorder patients panic, muscle trembling, shortness of breath and other nervous anxiety phenomenon, consciously do some deep and slow breathing training can achieve the relief of anxiety. A walk after dinner for about 40 minutes in life can help relax anxiety. In addition, taijiquan is about harmony and balance, with softness to overcome rigidity, flowing water, to achieve smooth breathing can also achieve the purpose of relaxation, but also to achieve fitness purposes, such as calligraphy, painting, as long as persistent, can also relax anxiety, psychological biofeedback therapy from some medical indicators to help patients relax.