Uninstalling anxiety in progress

Irregular, short and wheezing breathing, tachycardia, fear, worry, feeling that things can get out of hand, frustration, hopelessness, insomnia ... Oh yes ... We are talking about anxiety. It assails you at times when you least expect it: at work, preventing you from concentrating, or in the morning, with your eyes wide open, or even when you are comfortable with friends. Anxiety is often presented in this way, it "installs" inside us for no reason giving the feeling that something bigger and stronger than us is about to happen and it overwhelms us. By now we can define it as a characteristic of today’s world, we all feel a bit under stress, anxious and sometimes even depressed. But what should we do to overcome it? How can we “let down our guard”?

Anxiety makes you ready to handle an emergency, to face a possible danger, it is one of the signals that the mind sends you in the presence of a threat. And then you no longer have a clear mind, the muscles tense and contract themselves, the blood flows to the brain, breathing becomes fast and shallow, the heart speeds up and your stomach shrinks... You act a bit like your ancestors struggling with a lion on the entrance of a cave. As well as the lion (but with fewer hazards), even anxiety can be “tamed” and managed.

The most natural reaction willing to “uninstall” this unpleasant emotion, is to resort to anxiolytics so as to anesthetize the "pain”. But, actually, drugs do not solve the problem, they chemically suppress the physiological symptoms and make you feel immediately better without acting on the real causes that have brought you to anxiety. Not everyone knows, however, that the "first medicine" which everyone has, but seldom remembers, is breathing. Learning to breathe properly is tantamount to go back to make use of our best potentialities. You must make a better oxygenation to the brain in order to "relax" and ease the anxiety that, as a grip, dissociates us from our potential. The firmness and lucidity may be repurchased by breathing correctly, the only gateway to the control of undesirable emotions.

You simply need to listen to your inner voice, the messages of your soul because it is from here that your anxieties and fears come. You are used to keep your ears always towards the outside, ready to perceive what others expect from you, your soul does not accept this and anxiety is a sign of your rebellion. To listen to what your soul wants to communicate you need to breath "softly", that is to say a diaphragmatic breathing, decongesting the chest and organs that contain (heart and lungs), usually already overstimulated. When you are anxious, in fact, the breath shortens and you begin to breathe only with the upper part of the lungs. Breathing with the diaphragm re-establishes a very important balance: an unusual state of anxiety drives the energy upwards, resulting in an overloading energy in our head (headaches, nausea, dizziness and so on.). This type of breathing brings the energy down, using the stomach as a center of force. Going back to listening your inner voice gives you the opportunity to tap into new forces which you not even remotely imagine can exist. Breathing provides you with a valuable tool which helps to orient yourself toward life changes, more in tune with who you are. So, learn to "uninstall" the anxiety listening to it and only in this way a state of well-being will pervade you, restoring serenity.