Panic Relief Now - Here's the Secret to End Stress & Panic Today

Become more assertive, cut negative self-talk. Start to control your thoughts. Regularly say nice things about yourself to yourself. Be your own best friend. You must be disciplined to notice the positive things in your life and not just perceived negative things, even if things seem completely bleak at the present time. You need to constantly reinforce your own self worth and if you do you will see many of your anxiety issues fade away. Make a list of your positive attributes, anything you like about yourself, be honest, and keep them on hand for times of low self-esteem and anxiety.

Be kind to yourself. Its o.k. to make mistakes, cause that's how we learn. All too often fears, guilt or shame will play themselves out in our mind. Think of anxiety like a little person saying negative/anxious things in one ear and then running around to the other ear and telling you how bad you are for believing those things. Guilt and shame are another way that your thought patterns, which thrive on pain, survive. It is crucially important to cut yourself some major slack, especially at times like these. Be positive about yourself. Sooner or later you will realise that you have greater control over your mind and thoughts than might now seem to be the case. Step by step your going to take control of your mind, of your thought patterns. Your going to take control away from the negative thoughts that you've been feeding your mind.

Think of your mind for a moment like a judge making decisions, would you want him/her to hear only one side of the case before making a decision? You can't expect to make a rational decision about something that is worrying you when your brain receives, and re-receives again, the worst case scenario. Of course along the road to recovery time and time again you will want to resort back to your old worrying habit, because that's what your used to.

Worry is nothing more than a bad habit which you've developed over the course of many years. But did you worry like you do now when you were a child? Probably not, and if you did you learnt it early on, worry is a trained response. You have trained your brain to do it and now it's stuck on that setting. Your brain learnt this from you. You will need to break this worry habit if you want to be happy again. Be patient, and persistent with it, you will break this habit if you start now to think more positively.

Have you ever noticed how one day your worried about one thing seemingly monumental to yourself and as soon as that worry is over with it is replaced by another new worry even more monumental to yourself; and the other worry seems to lose it's significance and so on and so on, worry after worry, as long as your brain has something to worry about! Isn't that a fact, as long as your brain has something to worry about. In other words, its not what your worrying about that is the issue, in fact, rather, its your worry habit which clutches onto anything it can grab a hold of to worry about, and then it magnifies every conceivable negative variable that could possibly go wrong; this is a learnt response, and it only causes more worry, making the situation worse, and blowing your fear out of proportion. Here's how it works: you find something to worry about, worry about it, become fixated on it, blow it out of proportion, find something else "more pressing" to worry about, worry about that, look for more possible negative scenarios surrounding it, blow it out of proportion... and so on; constantly feeding into this worry habit. The only way out of this is to break the cycle of worry, and to teach your mind to start to think differently, in a more balanced way, a more logical way, and less emotionally. That's why it is so important to think positively about what is worrying you, so as to counter this tendency to exaggerate fear.

This article was written by John horrax.