Overcoming Anxiety

In this article - we will learn

• -How anxiety, fear, burnout, depression and other psychological disorders are connected and related YET different
• -4 Examples of dis-orders caused by fear and anxiety
• -12 Techniques which you can use easily - to get into resourceful, powerful and positive emotional states
• -Reducing anxiety through Self-hypnosis and anchoring powerful triggers to deal with anxiety and fear of future events AND
• -21 Steps to anchor the most positive feelings - through self-hypnosis
• -Reducing anxiety through EFT - emotional freedom technique - 17 Steps for applying EFT - emotional freedom tapping steps

Overcoming stress, anxiety, fear, burn-out through self-hypnosis techniques

Anxiety, burn-out, depression, stress and fear - are some of the things – all of us experience in our life on regular basis.

But when these starts controlling our lives by going on for long time & incapacitates our life - then they turn into serious dis-orders - requiring expert psychiatric and psychological treatments as well as therapies

Because it is not a medical conference or a session and where we have people with anxiety, depression & other psychiatric dis-orders - here I shall talk about the things that we can do ourselves to manage & overcome day-to-day stress & recognize when we need expert help.

Contrary to popular belief - there are distinct differences between stress and anxiety.

Although the chemical reactions are same - which creates the symptoms of both anxiety and stress.

Stress is caused by an existing stress-causing factor or stressor - anxiety is a stress that continues even after that stressor is not present or when the event or stressor is yet to take place.

Anxiety is chronic stress - whereas stress our response to anything upsetting.

Depression and anxiety disorders are also not same -but people with depression often experience symptoms similar to those of an anxiety disorder - such as nervousness, irritability and problems sleeping and concentrating.

Prolonged demotivation will cause burnout [this is especially in the case of job - but can happen in very close relationships also – where your efforts to mend/improve/repair relationship is not giving you any positive results].

Untreated burnout situation may turn into depression and other major issues needing expert help

4 Examples of dis-orders caused by fear and anxiety

• 1.Phobias are differentiated by the fact that they happen in the context of identifiable situations. They are marked by anxiety and avoidance.
• 2.Posttraumatic stress disorders - acute or chronic - gets triggered following an accident, any major disrupting loss, death of someone with whom the person was attached very-very deeply - this will have generalized anxiety along with many other resourceful emotions.
• 3.Obsessive compulsive disorders are characterized by tension generated through overwhelming urges to perform certain actions - also the attempts to deny, ignore, undo or suppress them.
• 4.Adjustment disorders represent mal-adaptive responses - like nervousness, worry, and jitteriness

12 Techniques which you can use easily - to get into resourceful, powerful and positive emotional states

All these techniques are explained in details- in my various YouTube Videos and blogs on my two websites Success Unlimited Mantra dot com & Relationship and Happiness dot com.

• 1.Deep Breathing, Yoga , Physical exercises
• 2.Meditation, Visualizations, Self-hypnosis
• 3.Aromatherapy, Music relaxation, Massaging
• 4.Talk Therapy - through a trained counselor or with a friend/mentor
• 5.Engaging in hobbies which creates passion
• 6.Helping others without expecting anything back - just for the sheer pleasure of helping
• 7.Being assertive - learning to say no
• 8.Identifying your triggers – which makes you lose your control - both situations & people & creating a plan of action
• 9.Using EFT - emotional freedom techniques AND Self-hypnosis and anchoring - I will be taking you through - these two techniques in my next video
• 10. Taking break and vacations
• 11. Getting organized and decluttering your work-area house etc.
• 12. Sex

Reducing anxiety through Self-hypnosis and anchoring powerful triggers to deal with anxiety and fear of future events

This is one of the most powerful NLP - neuro-linguistic-programing - tool to deal you're your anxieties and fears.

With practice - you can create a life full of Joys - by easing - the irrational and debilitating fears and anxieties.

21 Steps to anchor the most positive feelings - through self-hypnosis

• 1.First choose a time, space and place – where there is absolutely no interruption - through people, noise anything
• 2.Sit relaxed with your eyes closed – the entire exercise would be done with your eyes closed
• 3.Take a deep long breath, hold it for a while & then let it go slowly – once more - take another deep long breath, hold it for a while & then let it go slowly – then again - take yet another deep long breath, hold it for a while & then let it go slowly
• 4.Now go back to your life and search through your life's positive and most powerful events – select the one event which made you feel anyone one or all of these emotions
• 5.Most Successful, Most Powerful, Most Confident, Happiest, Most Energetic to handle even the toughest tasks, Most loved and most enthusiastic
• 6.Focus on this event and recall and visualize the entire episode which made you experience all these most powerful feelings and emotions
• 7.Now visualize - as if it is happening right now
• 8.See what you are wearing - Observe what you are doing - hear what you are saying - feeling those positive and powerful emotions
• 9.Observe who all are there and what they are doing - hear what they are saying - notice their expressions and see what they are wearing
• 10. See that entire scene - bring that scene closer - make it brighter - see it in full colors - keep doing this - till you have emotions of same intensity - making you feel Most Successful, Most Powerful, Most Confident, Happiest, Most Energetic
• 11. Keep seeing, keep feeling and keep experiencing - these emotions
• 12. Keep making the scene brighter, closer and more colorful - to increase the force of emotions - even greater
• 13. Only when - when you are feeling the most powerful, the most confident, the happiest –- take your index finger & thumb of your left hand and press your right ear lobe. After pressing for a second release it.
• 14. Then open your eyes – do something different to take your mind away for 30 seconds - walk, sing, anything.
• 15. Then close your eyes – then take a deep long breath, hold it for a while & then let it go slowly - now release the trigger by - take your index finger & thumb of your left hand and press your right ear lobe - if you have done the anchoring correctly – you will find that you got the same feeling back in that instant - and when you have done it enough times - you may get even more powerful feelings in fraction of seconds
• 16. While you are in this POWRFUL EMOTIONAL STATE - visualize yourself taking the first step - in the direction - which was cause you anxiety and fears
• 17. See yourself - going and approaching that difficult-person, having that difficult conversation, making that presentation or speech, confronting that bully etc. etc.
• 18. Now - you need to understand that - NO ONE CAN VISUALIZE SUCCESSFULLY and do this 17^th step - unless YOU HAVE PRACTICED - being assertive, acquired the skill to perform the task and mastered it, practice the presentation so many times that you can do it even in your sleep
• 19. Only when you have done this 18^th step you should Future-pace yourself and do the 17^th step along with the 15 steps of Anchoring and Triggering and reducing your anxiety while going for the difficult and fearful task and activity
• 20. Please do this in combination with EFT - the emotional freedom technique - given in another video - use EFT when you are actually going to perform
• 21. After doing EFT to calm your nerves - you use anchor-trigger - when you are enter into the activity

You have to repeat the steps from 1 to 15 many times [at least do it for 15-20 times in different days & time] for the same incident using the very same anchor every time.

Once it is anchored deeply – you feel find that you can have that mood – anytime you want it & it comes within you even in case you trigger the anchor accidentally

Reducing anxiety through EFT - emotional freedom technique - This technique can be use very effectively in case of fear & anxiety

Steps for EFT

• I.Identify the problem you want to focus on.
• II.It can be general anxiety -or it can be a specific situation or issue which causes you to feel anxious.
• III.Or it can be something that you are attempting right now - which is creating enough fear to prevent you from taking action
• IV.Or it can be say some pain, earache, headache or toothache
• V.Consider the problem or situation - identify how you feel about it right now.
• VI.Rate the intensity level of your anxiety - with zero being the lowest level of anxiety and ten being the highest.
• VII.Create your own mantra - to be repeated with every step of EFT - This mantra is a statement - which acknowledges the problem you want to deal with - along with a line accepting yourself in spite of this negative emotion and feeling - some examples are given here - you can use them and customize them - as per the situation.

All these statements have to be in present tense and using I - these statements have to made slowly, powerfully and with focused emphasis on feeling the power of these affirmations

• 1.Even though I feel this anxiety, I deeply and completely accept myself."
• 2.Even though I am anxious about my interview, I deeply and completely accept myself."
• 3.Even though I am feeling this anxiety about my financial situation, I deeply and completely accept myself."
• 4.Even though I panic when I think about ______, I deeply and completely accept myself. "
• 5.Even though I am worried about how to approach my boss, I deeply and completely accept myself."
• 6.Even though I am having trouble breathing, I deeply and completely accept myself."

17 Steps for applying EFT - emotional freedom tapping steps

• 1.Use either three fingers first, index and middle fingers OR two fingers first and middle fingers OR even four fingers - depending on the place you are tapping
• 2.On the wider areas like - under the arm, on the karate-chop area, the collarbone - selectively for few people on the top of the head - use four fingers
• 3.In the sensitive areas like - on the eyebrows, under the eyes on cheekbone, under the nose [above lips] - use two or three fingers
• 4.Always tap with your fingertips - and no other side of fingers
• 5.While tapping use a firm YET gentle pressure - just like drumming with two or three fingers together - while checking - say whether a fruit is ripe or tightness of screen etc.
• 6.Now start tapping - the following way
• 7.Take a deep long breath - and exhale - after holding it for some time
• 8.Repeat this breathing - three times
• 9.Now keep breathing normally
• 10. Now focus on your pain or fear or anxiety - and get the affirmation statement clear and fluent by repeating
• 11. Using two fingers to tap gently on the eyebrows of the opposite side - meaning if you are using right hand fingers to tap - tap on the left eyebrow - ALL THE WHILE REPEATING - your affirmation - do it 7-10 times
• 12. Using three fingers to tap gently on - under the eyes on cheekbone of the opposite side - meaning if you are using right hand fingers to tap - tap on the left - ALL THE WHILE REPEATING - your affirmation - do it 7-10 times
• 13. Using three fingers to tap gently on - under the nose above lips - ALL THE WHILE REPEATING - your affirmation - do it 7-10 times
• 14. Using four fingers to tap gently on - the collarbone - ALL THE WHILE REPEATING - your affirmation - do it 7-10 times
• 15. Using four fingers to tap gently on - side - under the arms opposite side - ALL THE WHILE REPEATING - your affirmation - do it 7-10 times
• 16. Using four fingers to tap gently on - the karate chop point on your other hand - ALL THE WHILE REPEATING - your affirmation - do it 7-10 times
• 17. Using four fingers to tap very-very and extremely gently on - top of your head - ALL THE WHILE REPEATING - your affirmation - do it 7-10 times

If your anxiety, pain or fear level is very high then you need to repeat the entire Eyebrows to the Top of your head - few times.

If you do it correctly - you would notice - very-significant reduction in your anxiety levels AND will be able to take the action-steps - which you were unable to earlier. 

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