How Do You Spell (Anti-Anxiety) Relief?

Natural Anti-Anxiety Relief can be provided in many ways. Making sure that you get plenty of good food, sleep and adequate exercise goes a long way towards and provides a good basis for natural anti-anxiety relief. If your body is well nourished and fully exercised, there is less of an extreme response to anxiety and stress, and the body will tend to recover physically from any anxiety provoking event more quickly.

Practicing meditation and relaxation techniques provides relief from anxiety. People seeking an antidote to the stress of modern life often find the martial arts both release a lot of pent up tension and develop self control. Anything from tai chi to karate provides a method of becoming in tune with your body and teaches an assertive, non aggressive way of being in the world, whilst keeping you fit at the same time.

People often can find that a hobby, taken up deliberately to help with stress relief can be very helpful. There are specific courses that you can take up in many community centers. Painting and pottery, mechanics or woodworking all provide an outlet for creativity and will help to release tension by taking your mind off other issues and provide a physical outlet for your energy. A man who was a tense, compulsive overachiever at work was encouraged to take up painting. He was asked how it was going. “Just fine” he said, “I managed to do ten paintings last night and expect to do another ten this evening”.

Sometimes it is not easy to modify our habits and no one should expect change overnight, but by using a variety of methods of natural anti-anxiety relief change is possible and it will happen with time. It is simply a case of experimenting to find what suits you best and what activities you find most relaxing. Many people find that when they are able to involve themselves fully in another activity it provides more balance in their life and sources of anxiety can seem less threatening or demanding.

Assistance with anxiety and stress reduction can be obtained by using natural health therapies. Trained herbalists can make up a variety of products, and there are many packaged products on the market, which help to alleviate stress. Products containing valerian help to promote restful sleep, lavender is most refreshing. St John’s Wort is one of the traditional anti-anxiety herbal products. Chamomile tea is familiar to most people, and herbs such as basil used routinely in cooking. Herbalists may follow Chinese tradition and practices, or follow the old European styles.

Natural anti-anxiety relief can be obtained from massage, from acupuncture, reiki, and a variety of other natural techniques which help restore natural harmony and balance. When body and mind are calm and relaxed, incidents of stress and anxiety can be observed and acted upon more objectively than when we are all caught up in a tangle of stresses and ever increasing levels of anxiety.

Many courses are available which teach life skills such as time management, budgeting and homemaking skills. There are also courses which teach assertiveness, anger management and for building self esteem. Some workshops will help you to learn how to express your feelings and challenge negative ways of thinking. Some courses offer visualization techniques to help you to achieve life goals.

Overcoming anxiety is often about self esteem and having the confidence to believe that you can manage and even bring about improvements in your life. Life is a challenge, and no one can change that. All you can do, and the best thing that you can do, is to change those attitudes, beliefs and habits that you have which hold you back in life and which cause or contribute to you having excessive levels of anxiety.