Day 3: Your Body
Day 3: Your Body
Yesterday we discussed how your breath plays a primary role in the anxiety response, and how, by making inroads on calming your breath, you can get immediate results in anxiety reduction.
Now, let's take it further and see how you hold anxiety in your body as a whole.
All of us carry anxiety physically; that's the way we were designed. Anxiety actually serves some positive purposes. And our stress response is meant to prepare us to respond to threat-- so by definition, stressful situations trigger reactions within your body that are significant and noticeable if you know where to look.
So, how can we find our calm? What if we're just giving a work presentation, having a difficult conversation with our partner, or reading some upsetting news online—and we don't want our stress response to be triggered in such uncomfortable ways?
The first step is to notice. Pay attention to your unique signs of anxiety within your body; no two people are exactly alike in how they carry stress, so get to know your own reactions. In time and with practice, you can then target those responses and counteract them to help yourself feel better, not worse. Here are some common ways besides breathing that stress shows up physically:
Of course, the breathing techniques that you learned in the last installment will also directly reduce these anxiety sensations, by targeting your overall agitation and peripheral nervous system arousal.
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