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Ditch the drugs and use one of these natural methods to combat your anxiety
Although stress and anxiety is natural and can have a beneficial impact by protecting us or making us perform at our best when it goes to extremes it can cause serious health implications.
It's common for the medical profession to prescribe a multitude of drugs to help cure you of your anxiety little realizing there's a huge range of tried and true methods for curing anxiety that don't rely on throwing a spanner in your brain box!
Why Do You Want a Natural Anxiety Cure?
We each have different reasons for wanting to go the natural route. What's yours?
The Physiology Of Anxiety and Stress
Prolonged exposure to stress and anxiety can have a hugely detrimental effect on your body and mental health. The diagram above gives information on the short term impacts some of the long term negative effects of panic are:
- Increased risk of heart disease and stroke.
- Weight gain due to hormonal releases that cause the body to stop metabolising fats.
- Muscle wasting due to elevated cortisol levels.
- Shrinking of the frontal lobes of the brain causing problems regulating mood and working memory.
Natural Paths To Cure Anxiety
There Are 4 Fundamental Means Of Naturally Curing Anxiety
Physical
This is the most basic and also one of the most powerful. I'm sure you've heard the numerous studies and news articles that trumpet exercise as being just as effective at curing depression and anxiety as the most powerful anti depressant and anxyolotic medication. Well it's true. Exercise releases powerful hormones that have a calming effect on the brain and body.
Spiritual
Psychologists aren't agreed on why people who follow a particular religion show healthier signs of mental state than those who don't. This also isn't specific to any particular religion or belief. Simply leading a life with some spiritual and deeper aspect seems to help offer balance and a rooting force to one's life.
Intellectual
This is the route favoured by Cognitive Behavior Therapists as it aims to use your rational enquiry to hammer down your irrational fears and feelings. If followed carefully and progressively it can have a huge impact on your life. It can be a very difficult and long process though.
Emotional
We're emotional beings and anxiety is often caused by emotional triggers. Emotion is one of the most powerful agents to combat and cure anxiety. Through the use of powerful visualizations and self hypnosis you can tap your inner emotional strength to fight back your negative fears.
Favorite Anxiety Books
These are the 5 books I'd most recommend from personal experience.
The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, Fourth Edition by Edmund J. Bourne
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The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques: Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Anxious and What You Can Do to Change It by Margaret Wehrenberg
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Feel the Fear . . . and Do It Anyway (r) by Susan Jeffers
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From Panic to Power: Proven Techniques to Calm Your Anxieties, Conquer Your Fears, and Put You in Control of Your Life by Lucinda Bassett
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Coping with Anxiety: 10 Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear & Worry by Edmund J. Bourne, Lorna Garano
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Natural Anxiety and Panic Cures
A Selection Of The Most Popular Methods
The Linden Method
The oldest and most prestigious anxiety and stress more...1 point
Panic Away
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Easy Calm Video Coaching
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Conquering Stress
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How did you conquer anxiety?
We all handle anxiety in different ways. I'd be interested to hear how other people handle there's. It can often help to get ideas form each other!
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- spunkyduckling spunkyduckling Oct 5, 2009 @ 6:39 pm
- I want a natural cure because I believe in it. I rely heavily on god and try to reason myself back to reality through the use of imagery (imagining I'm that my tension is being stripped from me). Music helps a great lot too.
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