If you have ever had health anxiety, then please read on because I found a way to stop it in its tracks and replace the merciless thrashing waters to a calm, peaceful and serene millpond within a couple of minutes. It is a practical technique that can be done wherever you are, without having to consult an external agent i.e. therapist.
Very recently, my anxiety levels around a health issue have been sky high. If I had to rank the anxiety on a scale of 1-10 – it would be a 10.
I have been preoccupied with thoughts that i did not recognise as thoughts or anxiety related phenomenon – I thought they were real. I was preoccupied with thoughts of dying, heavy thoughts, panic driven thoughts for days. I was tired, in pain and struggling. I was tormented, obsessed, and trying to distract myself was not fully taking it away – it was always there.. Even though I was trying to be positive, Inside there was a battle going on between me (trying to be positive) and this horrible and relentless energy that I thought was real and caused me a lot of pain.
I grabbed one of the techniques from the toolkit of exercises that taught to me from the school of energy awareness: I practiced an exercise called ‘Something in me’. I began naming and feeling the emotions that were driving the panic state – using compassion and disidentification, and almost instantly i became regulated again. My emotional pain subsided – i realised that there were emotions causing this state and not a reality. I recognised that i was clinging to these emotions, thinking they were real- and it was causing me pain and anguish. By feeling them, showing myself compassion, and disdentifying from them, the choppy and violent waters that were thrashing me about within me became calm waters once more that i was floating on top of.
I also did another technique called the gesture of peace – an arm movement accompanied by breathing – for 2 minutes. It was such a relief to do this- my waters became calm – it grounded my health anxiety – instead of catastrophising and almost being deluded – i came to understand the reality of the situation rather than the panic laden thoughts, and felt like i was floating on the water instead of of drowning in it.
Prior to using these technique, i feel i was nearing a crisis point.. but thanks to these techniques, i am now able to deal with the situation from a place of calm rather than being tormented and anxious. These techniques nipped the problem in the bud so that i was no longer in distress. I can now get on with my day without being caught up in this whole thing that i could not cope with.
I can now focus on other things and feel comfortable in my own skin.
Crisis averted!!!
if you would like to know more about the techniques that i used, then please email me at zenforlifeangel@gmail.com or visit my facebook page where you can book in a session with me. https://www.facebook.com/ki.to.life.leeds
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From NHS to Naturally Healthier Solutions 
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