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Managing Anxiety Tip 7

27/8/2021

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​Muscle relaxation.
At times, we hold parts of our body tensely and this can be exhausting. We may get so used to doing this that we don’t consciously notice until we are in pain.
 
Work all around your body:
  • tense a muscle tightly for 3 seconds
  • hold that tension for 3 seconds
  • relax that muscle, releasing all the tension in one go.
Pay particular attention to areas of tension in your body.

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Inspirational Quotes 7

27/8/2021

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'Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.'

   
Martin Luther King Jr
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Managing Anxiety Tip 6

4/8/2021

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Meditation.
Our brains are plastic which means we can change what we think and feel by reorganising how we think or making new connections between ideas. We can also learn new things. Meditation can be used for relaxation and calming purposes but it also gives us a way of training our brains so that we are in charge of what we think and are less likely to be derailed by difficult thoughts or negative ways of thinking.
 
Find somewhere warm, quiet and comfortable to sit or lie. Use the breathing techniques from earlier tips to breathe deeply and evenly. Then notice what thoughts come into your mind and what emotions are attached to them. Practise letting these thoughts go rather like a car which drives past and then is out of sight or a balloon that blows across the sky in front of you. When you come across thoughts which trouble you and are hard to let go of, you could try working with them (Tip 11) or challenging them (Tip 12).
 
Come up with your own meditations or use Apps such as Calm, Heartfulness or Headspace

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Inspirational Quotes 6

4/8/2021

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'The best portion of a good person’s life – their little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.'
Wordsworth


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Managing Anxiety Tip 5

13/7/2021

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​Visualising.
Sometimes, like being in the middle of a pandemic, we just cannot engineer being in a safe place. Everything around us feels wrong and out of control and fixing it is beyond our capabilities. When you feel emotionally unsafe, it can be really helpful to have somewhere inside yourself to escape to.
 
Pick your safe place and learn to visualise every detail of it so that you can go there in your imagination if you need to. It should be somewhere that is utterly safe and secure to you. Think about all your senses when imagining it. You can also people it with those friends and/or family who you feel totally safe with.

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Inspirational Quotes 5

13/7/2021

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'Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.'
Henry Van Dyke

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Managing Anxiety Tip 4

4/7/2021

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​Distraction.
When we get stuck in difficult or unpleasant patterns of thoughts, feelings or behaviours, it can be useful to distract ourselves for a while.
 
It might help to make a list of things that really work well for you as distractions so that you have a variety of ones to choose from. Distraction can take the form of reciting a poem or song you know off by heart or by counting things such as times tables or counting backwards from 100. My favourite distraction game is to pick a topic such as dog breeds and go through the alphabet: Afghan, Beagle, Cocker Spaniel, etc.

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Inspirational Quotes 4

4/7/2021

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 ‘There is no moving up and out into the world, unless you are fully acquainted with who you are. You cannot move freely, speak freely, act freely, be free unless you are comfortable with yourself.’
 Oprah Winfrey
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Managing Anxiety Tip 3

17/6/2021

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Deep breathing.
This is another way in which we can gain control over our breathing and use deeper, slower breaths to help calm ourselves and reduce the feelings of anxiety.

 Try the following deep breathing technique:

  • Sit comfortably.
  • Place one hand on your abdomen just under your rib cage and the other on your upper chest
  • Breathe in slowly through your nose for 4, hold for 4 and release for 4. Go slowly. You should be able to feel your abdomen rise and fall as you breathe.
  • The hand on your chest should remain still, while the one on under your ribcage should rise

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Inspirational Quotes 3

17/6/2021

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‘There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.’
​Phyllis Bottome
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