How to Deal With Anxiety

Seeing as though I named my blog "The Anxious Me" I figured I should probably cover a post on anxiety sooner rather than later. First of all the dictionary definition of anxiety is: "A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome." We have all experienced anxiety, but some people have it worse than others. Once in a while anxiety isn't bad, it's when it becomes repetitive that it becomes a problem. My anxiety causes me to not sleep at night, my heart will be pounding so badly I swear it's come close to coming out of my chest. I also will be so anxious about something that I stop talking. That's when my parents know something is wrong because I ALWAYS talk. I'm going to share with you my secrets to get my anxiety to go away, they work, I'm not kidding.

1. Write in a Notebook- Whenever I go to bed and know that I'm not going to be able to sleep, I open up the notebook, write down the date and everything that is on my mind. I don't leave out a single thing that could keep me from falling asleep. Nobody else will read your notebook so why does it matter anyway? Below is a picture of my anxiety notebook.

2. The next step is going back to bed and trying to fall asleep, it sounds like the hard part but the weird thing is, after writing in my anxiety notebook it's so much easier to sleep at night. However if that's not enough try relaxing all your muscles starting from your feet. What I do is pretend that it's gone numb, I wait a few seconds and then I move up a little bit more all the way to my head. The last thing you should relax are your eyes. Make sure while doing this that you don't think about anything other than relaxing that part of your body- if stressful thoughts start poking in your head it defeats the purpose!

I hope this helps guys! The anxiety notebook isn't only for bedtime either- use it whenever you need to. It also helps if you have stress over something, writing it all out helps to organise your brain so that you can focus on one portion at a time instead of overwhelming yourself with the whole picture. 

PS- Sorry for the lack of pictures in this post!