Natural Anxiety Therapy

Anxiety therapy can come in so many ways. Let’s say you were at the grocery store on a busy Saturday. After shopping, you get into your car and you feel just drained, your brain is scrambled, and you’re feeling anxious. You’ve been zapped! Now what?

Here’s your Natural Anxiety Therapy Tip. When this happens to you, take a few minutes by yourself. Go to the restroom, outside, your car, a bedroom – wherever you can have a few minutes of uninterrupted time to focus on yourself. Now do this exercise from my favorite energy guru Donna Eden:

Anytime you feel anxious, overwhelmed, or just plain “not right” this simple exercise would be great to do. This is anxiety therapy on the go! I’ve used it before I lecture, when I’m attending classes, during times of anxiousness or panic, or even after talking to someone who has stressed me out.

One of my other secrets is to use an essential oil blend called Valor. Before I do the exercise in the video, I will put a few drops on my palms and take four or five deep belly breaths. Then I’ll rub the residual oil on my ears and neck. This specific blend helps me feel centered and less anxious. Then I proceed to do the exercise from the video.

It helps to do the protection exercise that was posted on Feb. 17 and the one mentioned above daily as a part of your natural anxiety therapy program. Don’t forget the Valor!

No, I’m not talking about owning a handgun or buying a Kujo as your new anxiety therapy. As I meet so many people with anxiety, I do notice we have one thing in common. We are all extremely sensitive to others and often get caught up in other people’s energy. What I mean is that if someone is angry, in crisis, or negative – we pick up on it because most anxious people are extremely empathetic. Unfortunately, it brings us down we don’t separate ourselves from them. Maybe I’m not speaking to you on this one, but I know that I sometimes feel drained after I talk to someone like that.

Once I had an photo done of my energy when I was on the road. After that, I talked to a man who had something similar to me. He drained me and I felt totally discombobulated for hours. I went back to the people who did the photo of me earlier and they did another one. Literally, my energy was drained and it showed up on the photo! I wish I could find those so I could post them for you. But, I didn’t protect myself and I let him drain me. That’s the eye opener, yeah he drained me but I let him. He stole my mojo!

How does this relate to anxiety? Being drained from situations like this is very hard on your stress processing centers. Maybe you’ve been drained after being somewhere or with someone before, you could even feel anxious from the drain. Often I do.

So how can you personally protect yourself? This is what I do, I learned it from an Energy Medicine expert named Donna Eden. She calls it the ‘zip up’. Has something to do with making your central meridian stronger so you can ward off other people’s negative stuff. I found a video on You Tube that shows you how to do it. She is so awesome, talk about a lady with good vibes.

The other thing I do is envision an invisible shield around myself where people’s negative stuff bounces off and disintegrates. I make special effort to be conscious to do this when in crowds or I know I’m going to meet up with people that might drain me. It really works, simple anxiety therapy.

In a few days I will post on what to do if you do get zapped. Now go practice keeping your energy to yourself!

Everyone’s feedback on the blog has been fantastic. Keep it coming! Even topics you’d like to see would be great. There are so many ideas spinning around in my head regarding anxiety therapy that to focus can be challenging.

Some of the emails I have received from some of you just affects me to the core. So many of you with anxiety, depression, panic attack, etc. sufferers just “learn to live with it”. I was there too because I didn’t like the options that were given to me by the doctors. Don’t get me wrong, there is a time and a place for medication. But personally, I feel very strongly that it is a tool to use until the ROOT CAUSE is revealed.

As a scientist I always ask “why” something happens. I dig and dig until the root is revealed. Anxiety and other associated experiences are not the cause. Anxiety is a result. You don’t “have” anxiety, you experience it. It also doesn’t happen over night. Yes – anxious feelings can start over night. However, the groundwork that lead us to that point took months, if not years, or even decades!

Unless we have a physical deformity that caused malfunction in the body, the cause of anxiety boils down to stress. Stress doesn’t necessarily mean overworked and underpaid. It can mean running, running, running without relaxation for years. Decades of blood sugar swings from improper eating and malnourishment. Maybe it’s emotional turmoil of dealing with a loved one who has a made poor lifestyle choices. All these things accumulate and pile up.

Our bodies are physically affected by these stressors. A massive cascade of chemicals are released when we feel any sort of stress. During this time our bodies consume enormous amounts of resources to cope. Resources like amino acids, minerals, and vitamins. As we live under chronic stress, those resources get depleated and we physically can’t cope – hence ANXIETY sets in. For me, when I started putting the raw materials back in – the anxiety started to subside. I then could make other lifestyle changes that contributed to the problem such as over working, over committing, and worrying about everything.

We as humans are not meant to burn the candle at both ends for years at a time without serious rest. Think of a pet and how they live. I’ll use my cat Chewy as an example. He wants to go outside hunting and do his cat thing. Then he wants come home and sleep.

My Chewbacca, aka Chewy

Then back to hunting and playing activities, then sleeping. To have the life of my cat! My point is, observe any other animal on this planet. They all have times of intense activity, then great rest. We wonder why so many of us feel like we are going to crack at any moment, we are rest deficient!

Unfortunately I can’t share what I did to get rid of anxiety all in one day. More so, recovery and rebuilding yourself won’t happen in a day. Maybe not even a month! Getting rid of anxious feelings can happen extremely quickly. Rebuilding your body so the anxiety roots are gone forever take time. Start with getting “5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Reduce Anxiety”. This will be the beginning of your anxiety therapy. Subscribe to this blog so you receive new posts from me too. There’s a lot of material in me that I am excited to share with you.

You’re on the blogging ground floor with me, there are many good things to come that may help you rid your life forever of anxiety. Hang in there. Don’t accept “learning to live with it” anymore! And lastly, be comforted to know it’s probably not all in your head.

The adrenals love salt!

Read an article today on Medicine Net that advocates a low sodium diet. True, a low WHITE SALT diet is a good idea because it’s de-mineralized junk, i.e. an anti-nutrient. But because we’ve been blasted with info that sodium raises blood pressure – everyone is avoiding it unnecessarily. It has been shown that only 3% of people with high blood pressure actually have an increase in blood pressure when high sodium is consumed (quote from Dr. Janet Lang).

Our bodies need good sodium to function. It is an essential nutrient that so many of us are low in because salt has been labeled as ‘the devil’. When you crave salt, you need it! It’s a true deficiency craving vs. when we crave chocolate chip cookies or junk food.

I love salt and use a lot of it. However, I choose very healthy salt. My favorite it Redmond Real Salt (www.realsalt.com). I love it for it’s mild, sweet taste. It’s available at many grocery stores. Also, unprocessed sea salt is another good choice. If it’s white sea salt, “Just say no!”. The color in the salt is from the health giving minerals.

There are many foods that are naturally high in sodium – celery, strawberries, zucchini, etc. The perfect one is celery, because it’s high in potassium too. When we “BLOAT” from sodium, it may we’re low in potassium.

What does this have to do with anxiety therapy? Sodium is an essential nutrient for stress handling centers in the body – our adrenals. The stronger those centers are, the less anxious we feel. It is also vital for every organ to function properly as well as the nerves sending electrical communication.

So get some Real Salt or unprocessed sea salt and season away without feeling guilty. Because adrenal fatigue impacts our brain function, sodium can really be a part of your anxiety therapy!

Exercise is an important part of any health and wellness routine. But sometimes, finding the time, or the place, or the right kind of exercise can cause the very anxiety attacks it’s suppose to help cure. Here’s a little anxiety therapy exercise you can do anywhere, any time you feel your stress level start to rise:

Take a look around your surroundings. Find and focus on one object that is pleasant to look it. It may be small or large, brightly colored or quiet and dark. If you’re outdoors, for example, it may be a leaf on a bush, or the mailbox on the corner.

Whatever it is, you want to focus all your attention on this object as you inhale and exhale slowly and deeply for one to two minutes. While you are doing this exercise, try not to let any other thoughts or feelings enter your mind. If they do, just return your attention to the object.

At the end of this exercise you will probably feel more peaceful and calmer. Any tension or nervousness that you were feeling should be diminished. In fact, the more often you do this, the faster and easier it should become to “train” your body to calm itself. What may have taken you five minutes the first time you did this, may only take two after a while. Try this simple anxiety therapy today!