Kazimiera
05-10-2012, 06:18 PM
Practicing Unsustainable Anxiety – Breaking the Anxiety Cycle
http://www.self-reliance-works.com/2012/04/practicing-unsustainable-anxiety-breaking-the-anxiety-cycle/
Part of the focus of sustainable living is to create an environment that is able to renew itself. Human beings are wasteful creatures, often using more than they put back and creating materials (chemicals, plastics, etc.) that last forever and hurt both our health and the health of the planet. Sustainable living is both a mindset and a practice, as you learn to live in a way that creates what it uses and leaves no lasting impression.
But there is one thing in life that is naturally sustainable: Anxiety. Anxiety is a mental health issue that fuels itself, and unless you find a way to successfully disrupt the pattern, treating your anxiety will become far more difficult.
How Sustainable Anxiety Manifests Itself
The best way to understand sustainable anxiety occurs with young children. Anxious children often struggle to make friends, and since with a limited vocabulary and even more limited social skills, the child really needs to find a way to bond with their peers if they hope to make a new friend.
Children are often braver than adults – able to power through their anxiety when they need to. So it’s not uncommon to find an anxious child that tries to bond with those around them when in a social situation. Unfortunately, the process tends to go like so:
Child is anxious about talking to classmates, worrying about messing up.
Child decides to bond with nearby classmate anyway, despite the fears.
Child’s anxiety makes it hard for them to interact, either too shy to speak or afraid to play.
Other child doesn’t care for anxious child, and moves on to other games.
Anxious child’s fears were realized. Anxiety is reinforced.
We see these types of behaviors every day, leading to sustainable anxiety that reinforces itself, even with adults. It’s not only in the behaviors either. Anxiety can cause you to lose sleep. But sleep deprivation is a known cause of anxiety. Something as simple as sleeping can cause a vicious cycle of sustainable anxiety.
Making Anxiety Unsustainable Through Sustainable Living
If your goal is to cure anxiety, you need to break the anxiety cycle. But because anxiety is sustainable, you cannot simply change a few aspects of your life and hope that the anxiety goes away. Any area of your life you don’t address will continue to lead to these cyclical anxiety problems.
Instead, you need to find healthy, naturally friendly ways to reduce anxiety in every aspect of your life. You need to make major life changes, including:
Surrounding yourself with people that are positive and supportive.
Removing yourself from any frequent anxiety-producing experiences.
Finding new and better coping strategies for your stress and anxiousness.
All of these types of behaviors will help you control your anxiety on a larger level. But it’s not just the big changes either. You need to also make the smaller changes that help control anxiety, including:
Avoiding horror movies that may cause light to moderate anxiety.
Fighting phobias that may regularly cause intermittent anxiety.
Eating healthy and exercising to avoid health concerns or physical symptoms that mimic anxiety.
The only true way to create a cure for anxiety is to break every recurring habit that causes anxiety, and focus instead on living a life that is about promoting sustainable relaxation.
Anxiety is a common concern that affects millions of people all over the world, and unfortunately most people have aspects of their life that contribute to it on a regular basis. Yet it is controllable, manageable, and potentially curable for those that are truly willing to address it. Find out what causes anxiety in your life and dedicate yourself to breaking the habits.
http://www.self-reliance-works.com/2012/04/practicing-unsustainable-anxiety-breaking-the-anxiety-cycle/
Part of the focus of sustainable living is to create an environment that is able to renew itself. Human beings are wasteful creatures, often using more than they put back and creating materials (chemicals, plastics, etc.) that last forever and hurt both our health and the health of the planet. Sustainable living is both a mindset and a practice, as you learn to live in a way that creates what it uses and leaves no lasting impression.
But there is one thing in life that is naturally sustainable: Anxiety. Anxiety is a mental health issue that fuels itself, and unless you find a way to successfully disrupt the pattern, treating your anxiety will become far more difficult.
How Sustainable Anxiety Manifests Itself
The best way to understand sustainable anxiety occurs with young children. Anxious children often struggle to make friends, and since with a limited vocabulary and even more limited social skills, the child really needs to find a way to bond with their peers if they hope to make a new friend.
Children are often braver than adults – able to power through their anxiety when they need to. So it’s not uncommon to find an anxious child that tries to bond with those around them when in a social situation. Unfortunately, the process tends to go like so:
Child is anxious about talking to classmates, worrying about messing up.
Child decides to bond with nearby classmate anyway, despite the fears.
Child’s anxiety makes it hard for them to interact, either too shy to speak or afraid to play.
Other child doesn’t care for anxious child, and moves on to other games.
Anxious child’s fears were realized. Anxiety is reinforced.
We see these types of behaviors every day, leading to sustainable anxiety that reinforces itself, even with adults. It’s not only in the behaviors either. Anxiety can cause you to lose sleep. But sleep deprivation is a known cause of anxiety. Something as simple as sleeping can cause a vicious cycle of sustainable anxiety.
Making Anxiety Unsustainable Through Sustainable Living
If your goal is to cure anxiety, you need to break the anxiety cycle. But because anxiety is sustainable, you cannot simply change a few aspects of your life and hope that the anxiety goes away. Any area of your life you don’t address will continue to lead to these cyclical anxiety problems.
Instead, you need to find healthy, naturally friendly ways to reduce anxiety in every aspect of your life. You need to make major life changes, including:
Surrounding yourself with people that are positive and supportive.
Removing yourself from any frequent anxiety-producing experiences.
Finding new and better coping strategies for your stress and anxiousness.
All of these types of behaviors will help you control your anxiety on a larger level. But it’s not just the big changes either. You need to also make the smaller changes that help control anxiety, including:
Avoiding horror movies that may cause light to moderate anxiety.
Fighting phobias that may regularly cause intermittent anxiety.
Eating healthy and exercising to avoid health concerns or physical symptoms that mimic anxiety.
The only true way to create a cure for anxiety is to break every recurring habit that causes anxiety, and focus instead on living a life that is about promoting sustainable relaxation.
Anxiety is a common concern that affects millions of people all over the world, and unfortunately most people have aspects of their life that contribute to it on a regular basis. Yet it is controllable, manageable, and potentially curable for those that are truly willing to address it. Find out what causes anxiety in your life and dedicate yourself to breaking the habits.