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Panic and Anxiety Solutions Harvesting Happiness 4 Heroes

By Lisa Cypers Kamen, Harvesting Happiness 4 Heroes

Well you are almost through our series in helping you understand your own anxiety, body, mind, and how to help end the cycle of anxiety. I’d like to now discuss some more quick ways to prevent general stressful situations, and physical ailments.

As a recap for the physical symptoms, look back in the blog to learn about better breathing, and breathing during your attack. Also take preventive actions by cutting back on caffeine, eating regularly, and getting enough sleep and rest. Notice the second word—rest. Getting eight hours of sleep will help your body recuperate, but your mind also needs some relaxation.

Without some relaxing “you time,” your mind is more likely to dwell on worries and accumulate stress. This, as we have seen, can pique in the form of an anxiety attack. In order to prevent this particular trigger, it is a good time to pick something relaxing to do every week or every few days. If you have the time and can relax every day that is even better, but focus on the minimum of once or twice a week. If you want to go to the movies, take a long bath, read a good book, play a board game, or talk a walk in the park then do so. What will also help with this process is changing your thought patterns in the ways discussed earlier, as well as some preventive measures. When you are feeling stressed out, add some venting to your relaxation time. Take the time to call a friend, journal, or work with a therapist. If it helps you, take time out to organize your schedule and requirements, in order to prevent some stressful situations and cut out what you really don’t need. Finding more healthy ways to deal with your every day stress and prevent anxiety can be found in our blog Stress Series.

Having a past traumatic event can affect your current stress level and anxiety attacks. The above methods can definitely help with this trigger as well—although it may perhaps be a bit more painful, and require more talking it out. Distracting yourself when you need to stop dwelling on the past, and taking time out to take care of yourself, can help you lessen your anxiety. Also realizing and journaling these triggers can help you realize they are just triggers. When you see them occurring again, stop and think: “I am not [past event], that was just a memory. I am safe, I am in control, and I am healing.” Then employ the above techniques; realize your symptoms for what they are, practice your breathing, and distract your thoughts.

I hope that these lessons have helped you learn more about yourself, and understand your life and ways you can heal your anxiety, and keep your worries and past from affecting your present daily life. Be sure to stay rested in body and soul, and continue to stay strong and happy with whom you are and where you are going.

Interactive Strategy #10

Give up control:

Our lives are governed by the illusion of the control we think we have over it. The reality is the only thing we have control over is our actions and behaviors. Do you really want to be that person with road rage or who yells at your partner for the tiniest infraction that rubs you the wrong way? My guess is no. You see, most of us desire a calm, harmonious, healthy and prosperous life for our selves and our families. The first step to achieving it starts with you.

In the pursuit to control our lives and our anxieties we actually constrict our bodies and our minds. The next time you feel the grips of control consider loosening it up and letting go. Look to the skies, feel the sun and surrender to the moment. You might actually feel like you have regained your composure.

For more information, please check in with us to read on more topics, concerning depression, anger, stress, and more.

Remember…happiness is an inside job!

Nothing gives happiness life a free gift. Receive your complimentary eBook, Got Happiness Now? Click here for your free copy.

Independent filmmaker, author, happiness coach and speaker Lisa Cypers Kamen creates these blogs to entertain, enlighten and educate our service men and women along with their families as well as support our troops. To contact Lisa, email her directly at lisa@harvestinghappiness.com and check out her websites at www.harvestinghappiness.com , www.hh4heroes.org & www.harvestinghappinesstalkradio.com.

Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio with Lisa Cypers Kamen brings a fresh approach to the airwaves promoting happiness, well-being and global human flourishing by presenting a diverse and proactive collection of the greatest thinkers and doers who have devoted their lives to creating a better world in which to live.

She is an expert in creating happiness, finding pathways to happiness, and building a happiness formula in her Harvesting Happiness workshops. Cultivate a happier life by tuning in weekly click here .Wednesdays at 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST. or download her free podcasts by clicking here.

Harvesting Happiness for Heroes is a pending 501(c)(3), non-profit corporation. Our mission objective is to offer support services to Warriors and Warrior families challenged by Combat Trauma, PTSD and post-deployment reintegration issues. HH4Heroes offers Battle Buddy workshops, family awareness training, online community support, one-on-one coaching services, as well as retreats for Warriors to decompress from battle and understand the tools available for them to adapt their military skills to civilian society.

Harvesting Happiness & Harvesting Happiness for Heroes provides positive psychology coaching tools to facilitate greater well-being. This communication is provided for education and inspiration. This communication does not constitute mental health treatment nor is it indicative of a private therapeutic relationship. Individuals desiring help for trauma, addiction and abuse related issues or other psychological concerns should seek out a mental health professional.

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Panic and Anxiety Solutions Harvesting Happiness 4 Heroes

By Lisa Cypers Kamen, Harvesting Happiness 4 Heroes

Welcome back! At this point in the series, you know your possible triggers, your symptoms, and some ways to prevent physical ailments and calm your breathing. Now we are going to look at the thought process.

Next step in fixing your thinking is to end the cycle of obsessive thought patterns or dreading an upcoming event. This alone can cause your anxiety to pique. It helps to talk it out with a friend, journal, or completely distract yourself. Take a brisk walk or exercise, put some fun music or a comedy movie on in the background (or, better yet, sit down to really watch the movie), or begin a fun project around the house. You will still have to deal with whatever is causing your anxiety, yes, but dwelling on it will only heighten your emotions and stress.

If you are not in a situation where you can distract yourself with an activity or talking to a friend, focus on some familiar patterns that will help you distract yourself. If, for instance, you are a fan of math, then run math equations and patterns through your mind. If it helps to remember people’s birthdays, family members’ middle names, or all of your past favorite books or movies, then begin compiling those lists in your mind. Any thought pattern that helps to keep your mind off of the anxiety at hand would be a release.

Interactive Strategy #9

Make lists and make plans:

In focusing on positive things you want to do or achieve you can distract your mind from the negative loop causing you the anxious symptoms. When the stress monster rears its ugly head stop it cold with creating a positive future event that you will look forward to and that give you pleasure. The operative word here is pleasure.

Join us next time to discuss some ways to lessen general anxiety and past memories through your daily living. Keep those stressful thoughts at bay!

Remember…happiness is an inside job!

Nothing gives happiness life a free gift. Receive your complimentary eBook, Got Happiness Now? Click here for your free copy.

Independent filmmaker, author, happiness coach and speaker Lisa Cypers Kamen creates these blogs to entertain, enlighten and educate our service men and women along with their families as well as support our troops. To contact Lisa, email her directly at lisa@harvestinghappiness.com and check out her websites at www.harvestinghappiness.com , www.hh4heroes.org & www.harvestinghappinesstalkradio.com.

Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio with Lisa Cypers Kamen brings a fresh approach to the airwaves promoting happiness, well-being and global human flourishing by presenting a diverse and proactive collection of the greatest thinkers and doers who have devoted their lives to creating a better world in which to live.

She is an expert in creating happiness, finding pathways to happiness, and building a happiness formula in her Harvesting Happiness workshops. Cultivate a happier life by tuning in weekly click here .Wednesdays at 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST. or download her free podcasts by clicking here.

Harvesting Happiness for Heroes is a pending 501(c)(3), non-profit corporation. Our mission objective is to offer support services to Warriors and Warrior families challenged by Combat Trauma, PTSD and post-deployment reintegration issues. HH4Heroes offers Battle Buddy workshops, family awareness training, online community support, one-on-one coaching services, as well as retreats for Warriors to decompress from battle and understand the tools available for them to adapt their military skills to civilian society.

Harvesting Happiness & Harvesting Happiness for Heroes provides positive psychology coaching tools to facilitate greater well-being. This communication is provided for education and inspiration. This communication does not constitute mental health treatment nor is it indicative of a private therapeutic relationship. Individuals desiring help for trauma, addiction and abuse related issues or other psychological concerns should seek out a mental health professional.

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Panic and Anxiety Solutions Harvesting Happiness 4 Heroes

 By Lisa Cypers Kamen, Harvesting Happiness 4 Heroes

As you know by now, one of the most noticeable symptoms of anxiety and anxiety attacks, are the feelings of fear, and the physical reactions to your triggers. If you are not caught up in this discussion yet, then please trace back and read our earlier blogs.

The first step, as discussed, is to understand what is really happening. Once you have this down, there are a few tricks you can employ to help calm your system and bring you on the road to relaxation.

The next step is to focus on your breathing. A system called diaphragm breathing, which is basically breathing so deeply so that your stomach as opposed to your chest is moving with the breathing, can help calm your mood and smooth our your nervous system and oxygen flow. When practicing this breathing method, begin counting the number of breaths you take—take at least ten breathes before you attempt to move onto anything else.

If you still have trouble breathing, practice the old paper bag trick, as seen in those 1990s and airplane movies. This will help you recycle carbon dioxide in your system, as well as give you something to see and concentrate on. Be sure to find a paper bag, without holes, and do not use a plastic bag.

Interactive Strategy #8

Meet Your Breath:

We breathe each and everyday without giving it much thought. Our bodies just do it. However, when we become anxious we tend to shorten our breathing so it becomes shallow and not bringing as much oxygen into the blood making the symptoms worse. Getting air from the outside into our bellies can offer some quick relief. Try this, sit comfortably and place one hand just below your navel. Inhale through your nose and observe your belly rise. Hold your breath while counting to 5 and then slowly release the breath through your nose counting to 5. Repeat this process several times until you feel your breathing pattern has returned to a normal rate.

Learning how to calm your nerves and breathe properly will be discussed soon in the series. If you are just joining us, please check the earlier blog in order to catch yourself up, and assess your own reactions and situations. We will continue with some emotional feelings during an anxiety attack, and the meanings behind them, next.

It also helps to practice all these breathing methods before you have an anxiety attack, so your muscle memory is fully prepared and ready to help you out. Next step will be helping fix your thought patterns, which we will discuss next. In the meantime, practice those deep breaths!

Remember…happiness is an inside job!

Nothing gives happiness life a free gift. Receive your complimentary eBook, Got Happiness Now? Click here for your free copy.

Independent filmmaker, author, happiness coach and speaker Lisa Cypers Kamen creates these blogs to entertain, enlighten and educate our service men and women along with their families as well as support our troops. To contact Lisa, email her directly at lisa@harvestinghappiness.com and check out her websites at www.harvestinghappiness.com , www.hh4heroes.org & www.harvestinghappinesstalkradio.com.

Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio with Lisa Cypers Kamen brings a fresh approach to the airwaves promoting happiness, well-being and global human flourishing by presenting a diverse and proactive collection of the greatest thinkers and doers who have devoted their lives to creating a better world in which to live.

She is an expert in creating happiness, finding pathways to happiness, and building a happiness formula in her Harvesting Happiness workshops. Cultivate a happier life by tuning in weekly click here .Wednesdays at 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST. or download her free podcasts by clicking here.

Harvesting Happiness for Heroes is a pending 501(c)(3), non-profit corporation. Our mission objective is to offer support services to Warriors and Warrior families challenged by Combat Trauma, PTSD and post-deployment reintegration issues. HH4Heroes offers Battle Buddy workshops, family awareness training, online community support, one-on-one coaching services, as well as retreats for Warriors to decompress from battle and understand the tools available for them to adapt their military skills to civilian society.

Harvesting Happiness & Harvesting Happiness for Heroes provides positive psychology coaching tools to facilitate greater well-being. This communication is provided for education and inspiration. This communication does not constitute mental health treatment nor is it indicative of a private therapeutic relationship. Individuals desiring help for trauma, addiction and abuse related issues or other psychological concerns should seek out a mental health professional.

Tags: Battle Buddy Workshops, battle fatigue, become a happy person, become happy, being happy, book how to be happy, book on how to be happy, Combat Stress, Combat Trauma, creating a happy life, creating happiness, finding happiness, happiness, happiness books, happiness expert, happiness formula, happiness how to, Happiness is an Inside Job, happiness radio show, happiness talk radio, happiness workshops, Harvesting Happiness, Harvesting Happiness 4 Heroes, Harvesting Happiness for Heroes, having a happy life, how to become a happy person, how to become happy in life, how to create a happy life for me, how to happiness, how to live with PTSD, how to recover from PTSD, learning about happiness, Lisa Cypers Kamen, Lisa Kamen, Living with PTSD, making PTSD better, military support program, positive psychology, positive psychology coaching tools, Post deployment reintegration issues, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, PTSD Techniques, shows about happiness, talk radio about happiness, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury, ways to be happy, What is Your Happiness, Wounded Warrior