Holistic Therapy Tips: How To Fend Off Anxiety With A Daily Routine
Managing anxiety can feel like a real challenge in general but, what if I told you anxiety can become more manageable with a daily routine that allows for increased prevention and recovery. When we feel anxious it can be difficult to be consistent in practice but please be assured that every little bit of effort and coping practice can help. Consider working on different anxiety management tools in order to determine which methods will work best for you and from there you can work to maintain 3-5 practices daily that will help you feel more in control of your anxiety instead of feeling like your anxiety is in control of you throughout the day.
In the paragraphs below I’m going to share 3 tools and coping practices that can be effective for fending off anxiety as a part of your daily routine. Try the suggestions below and assess for yourself how you feel, and if you notice a reduction of anxiety symptoms. You can always select your own favorites as well.
Deep Breathing Throughout The Day
The power of deep breathing and breathing exercises has been documented and backed by science for decades. Deep breathing is naturally a great tool for daily anxiety management practice. It’s often common for small children to be taught to take 10 deep breaths when they become angry to manage their emotions. This is a great idea in some ways. In other ways I think the better advice would be to practice continually taking conscious and mindful deep breaths throughout your day as a normal breathing practice. This allows for us to be in prevention mode by ensuring that we are conscious and mindful about out breathing and oxygen intake within a regular routine. This feels more helpful to avoid shallow breathing patterns that tend to be more consistent with having busy schedules and an overwhelming amount of distractions happening in daily life by way of social media, ringing phones, text messages, Netflix, TV, YouTube, and so on.
Make time to breath deeply allowing for the air you breath to be slowly inhaled through your nose, allow that air to slowly travel through your chest and down to the base of your stomach. Pause for a beat and then release that air back up through the base of your stomach, through your chest, and back out through your nose or mouth slowly. From there repeat this breathing exercise regularly throughout your day as often as you can be mindfully aware. This is one of my favorite anxiety busters!
Drink Plenty Of Water/ Eat Clean
The value of drinking enough water counts when it comes to anxiety. If your body is not properly hydrated, you are technically experiencing some variation of mild to moderate dehydration. You might not have all of the severe symptoms of dehydration like a racing heart, fainting spells, or difficulty regulating your body temperature but that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to manage mental clarity and balanced memory and recall. When you get enough daily hydration your anxiety symptoms will naturally decrease because you will have the advantage of improved thought process with proper hydration.
Using your current body weight and then dividing that number by 2 gives you a custom daily hydration goal in ounces. From there if you’d like you can divide that number by 8 to determine how many cups of water you need to drink for your daily hydration. Try to meet your daily hydration goal for even just a few days and you will notice results more immediately with daily consistency.
Move Your Body Reduce Your Overwhelm
Something that really knocks anxiety off its feet is when you spend time for regular and routine exercise. I recommend having a daily exercise routine for 6-7 days a week. Try adding in daily low impact exercise like walking or yoga at least 2-3 days of your week. Also aim to have 3-4 days of higher intensity exercise like High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). Working out helps boost your happy and calm endorphins that allow for your day to naturally feel more manageable and less overwhelming. Imagine after you work out that you have difficulties that you can observe without feeling reactive. That’s what exercise is able to do for our body and our stress and anxiety resilience.
While fitness may not be something that everyone wants to do 6 days a week, I encourage you to start a practice, even 10-15 minutes a day can be useful. You may find that your commitment to exercise increases even more when your anxiety symptoms reduce via preventative stabilization. That’s what having a consistent daily anxiety management routine can offer.
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