Anxiety eats you up inside
It can swallow you whole. Leaving you to feel empty, sad and depressed.
You'll feel alone. You'll feel a burden. You'll feel unworthy.
You'll feel out of control but I'm here to tell you, you have complete control over your thoughts and emotions.
You work on autopilot. What you've trained your mind to be and act is how you react. You can untrain your subconscious.
Change your thoughts, change your unhealthy habits.
6 unhealthy habits
Let's dive in today of 6 habits you can learn to control and change to make a better healthier mindset for anxiety.
Working on your anxiety can seem like a chore even though you want to better yourself.
Once you make or change a habit it becomes automatic. We need to change unhealthy habits to more uplifting disciplined habits.
#1 Not getting enough sleep
This is an obvious one. So many people are sleep deprived right now. It's hard, on a good day I get at least 5/6 hours a night.
Getting to sleep is difficult for some, it can take a while to drift off to wonderland, taking anywhere up to an hour or more.
It's important to get at least 7/8 hours of sleep each night for a healthier mind. Make time to wind down before bed.
Read a book, do a nighttime stretch or yoga and/or journal. These types of things make your eyes tired and easier for you to drift off.
Sometimes it's not as easy as that, what else helps is changing your bedding more often (obvious - but effective), showering/bathing before bed, and/or use pillow mist (I am yet to try this so if it works for you let me know).
Really unwind and get your body ready for sleep because the more you don't get enough the more the anxiety creeps in and keeps you guessing and worrying about things that don't actually matter.
#2 Suppressing your thoughts
One of the hardest things with anxiety is not speaking about it. Not having an ear to listen to your worries however big or small they are.
You feel like crying inside sometimes, more often than not. You break down constantly and have no one to share the agony and pain you are feeling inside.
The more we suppress and hide these emotions and thoughts the more we shrivel up inside and cause a circle of depression, restlessness, paranoia.
Speaking, confiding, writing it all down is so helpful. It releases stress, built up bad energy that's holding you down, anchoring you to the ground.
Being more open, and being able to share these thoughts and feelings will change your life, allowing someone to understand your thoughts and frustrations can be powerful.
Letting go of this hurt and sadness allows fresh looming energy through your body. Letting go transforms your state and allows you to breathe again.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, a problem shared is a problem halved.
#3. Constantly checking your phone
We live in day and age where phones and other devices are used 24/7. Although there are so many benefits for this creative technology we have it can also be so draining and exhausting and depressing.
We spend so much time looking at the screens of our devices that we forget the real world. We'd rather be messaging and texting than speaking in person.
We live in a world where social media can be cruel and horrible and demoralising. We live in hateful times where people put others down instead of lifting them up.
We fight against all sorts of campaigns, telling the world to be kinder and love more but it's all an act and trend to fit in. Where does it stop?
Put down your computer, your smartphone and relax. Enjoy the little moments in silence, more human contact and socialisation.
Obviously, physical contact is limited right now, but just the people or person you live with is enough. Turn off your notifications, put your mobile on silent.
I've found it really beneficial to put my phone on silent as soon as I go to bed and sometimes don't even take it off of silent for the whole day or until I've gone to work in case I need to be reached. It's a real lifesaver literally.
#4. Not exercising
Working out or any kind of movement releases endorphins. Endorphins make you happy.
Simple right? Most of us think we have to go heavy on the exercise to make us feel good. Wrong.
Whether you do a daily stretch, short/long walk, or a complete workout or run, you are releasing stress and fabricated anxiety from your body.
You don't need to go hard on yourself or your body to get great results. Your mind is the most powerful source and you need to nurture it rather than ignore it and mistreat it.
Break this habit, incorporate some form of movement into your day and you will feel 100 times better than you already do.
#5. Eating an unbalance diet
The word diet is always talked about so negatively. 'I need to go on a diet to lose weight', but the real picture is diet is just a generalisation of what you eat.
To make it more clear, it's not a weight loss programme or regime to get you to a healthier state, it's simply a means of living and eating.
A balanced diet simply means balanced. You can eat a balance of proteins, fats, carbs, getting all your minerals and vitamins needed.
As a society, we need to eat less junk food period. When you eat better and balanced you'll have more energy to focus on other things, shifting your negative, anxiety thoughts out of your head.
You'll notice a big difference, trust me on this!
#6. Not having a routine
When we don't have a routine we can feel all over the place. Thoughts and emotions run wild.
Our nervousness and unease heighten when we are uncertain of an outcome.
Putting in a routine whether that's a morning or evening or mid-afternoon, just something you can stick to makes your life so much easier.
It gives you clarity and focus. You feel so much more at ease having everything planned out or just noted a few things on your to-do list is handy.
It doesn't need to be big or lengthy just something personal to you and achievable.
You'll start noticing results.
Now it's all good and well talking about things you should and shouldn't be implementing but how are you going to do this?
I won't lie its difficult, it's hard and you may even try a few of these things and give up after a few days or a week.
Maybe you even do it for a month but then it becomes too much effort.
The thing is, it comes from consistency, from the power of discipline. Growing your discipline muscle.
Committing to change, to better yourself.
Holding yourself accountable. Create a chart to tick off as you go.
What do you want your future to look like? Do you want to be surrounded in an anxiety-driven nightmare for the rest of your life?
Breathe in and out, and repeat this in your head or out loud:
I am committed to becoming a better person today than I was yesterday. Better thoughts, better decisions and better actions.
Enjoy the rest of your day beautiful 💛
Tracey
xxx
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