Natural Anxiety Relief: You Need Solutions
Anxiety, dread, that terrible roiling gut, shortness of breath, unable to think of anything other than the cause of the feelings. You want to reach for the easy fix, the bottle of pills or alcohol but you know there must be a better way a natural anxiety relief that will get you through this time.
When you are caught up in the anxiety cycle it is easy to “see the problem” and “get stuck in the feelings.” However for most situations the anxiety is due to not seeing a way through to the other side rather than the problem itself. What you really need are solutions to all aspects of the problem.
So what would need to happen to give you that sense that you were in charge and able to cope well and come out the other side of the situation ready to move on successfully?
There are some things that just need to be accepted. Death comes to us all. Court rulings come to some and the consequences have to be lived with. Accidents come to a great many of us leaving disabilities which may have immediate and, or long term consequences. We may take on jobs we hate or lose jobs we love. If you get stuck in the feelings and are searching for anxiety cures you will have to take charge.
When something has happened it has happened. Now it is a matter of dealing with the consequences. So define your problem in a way that puts you in charge and seek a range of possible ways of dealing with each part of what is wrong.
An older couple had retired. They put their retirement savings into a scheme and lost it all. They were looking to a bleak future of limited government assistance. The husband was somewhat disabled and hadn’t worked for a number of years having let his wife work while he “couldn’t”. He thought through his skills and with a heavy drivers license was able to get a job driving buses first on a part time basis and then full time. It was a huge personal change for him to accept personal responsibility for his own welfare after expecting his wife to look after him for so many years. By focusing on solutions rather than on what they “couldn’t” do they experienced a natural anxiety relief that wouldn’t have been matched by drugs or alcohol. It wasn’t easy, but they did it.