Getting to know your anxious side and the effects it creates is only one side of the puzzle everyone must solve for themselves. Knowing what to do is more than just reacting to a situation or behavior. The strategy’s aim, dealing with anxious behavior, is to sustain techniques and steps that change that behavior in time and sustain the change as a positive outlook.
People often get here to realize that they need help and that most things that could be done look strange and essential to them.
Here is a simple set of tools to help you handle your anxious behavior.
Work on your mindset.
Simple, A? Well, it’s not as simple as it looks. Many people, cached in the anxious traps, plan technical steps but must consider how they think about the behavior and situations it creates. To start changing, an individual must first start thinking differently. What may have seemed like an impossible effort must be turned into a possible positive outcome. How things are happening is building the opposite outlook and reacting positively toward challenging situations. Look at Elon Musk, for example. He never said that people can’t reach Mars. Instead, he always expressed a positive mindset and made it a positive talk on how going to Mars would benefit humanity. And look now – one of his cars is flying to Mars to show everyone skeptical that reaching this planet is not impossible.
Changing mindset is a challenging task. It doesn’t happen in a night. But putting effort into changing your mindset opens the world of opportunities and sets a new perspective for the individual and those surrounding them.
Find the humor
Something so simple as humor can significantly impact how a mindset is transformed. Humor often works as a stress reducer for the individual. Learning to use it is difficult, but managing that defense mechanism against anxious behavior creates impactful results. Humor fights insecurity and turns one’s looking at negative situations into building blocks for transformation. Looking at difficulties with the sense that they are not so severe and can create comic outcomes redefines the understanding of how the individual sees situations around them. Focusing on lowering the pressure from actions happening and turning them into an imaginary satisfactory position helps reduce anxious behavior. It turns the individual’s mindset toward the whole surrounding world faster.
Get moving
A common mistake everyone makes is to stop at some time in the run for a change. And most often, there are better ways to deal with anxious behavior. The movement toward dealing with anxious behavior starts with energetic activity. The sooner the individual realizes the higher the impact of this behavior. Despite the inconvenience, moving forward is a good starting point to change what the individual has already built. The environment is changing, the way of thinking starts changing, and the person changes if they get along with what is happening and tweak their behavior to change.
Try relaxation(meditation) techniques
People often laugh at this, but fighting it without investing much energy is the key to building balanced behavior and standing against anxiousness. That doesn’t mean the individual must become a full-time yoga master. Some techniques connected with breathing, calming themselves, and learning to control their pulse and blood pressure can create a solid ground for change.
Present the shades of grey.
Anxious people see the world in black and white. They need to think of how things may have looked if some compromise was created. The primary thought is that it must be one of both – good or bad. Going into these extremes makes the person feel safer when searching for compromises and dealing with the dynamics of the change needed. The bravest move here can be to find the golden middle. Although this may be very tough for an anxious person, the sooner they realize how the golden center can change the situation, the less stress and insecurity will be created. The shades of grey for an anxious individual may have different faces or be seen in other dimensions. At the same time, changing the mindset and way of thinking and acting with more self-confidence is a positive starting point for change.
Shift fact from opinion in a balanced way.
Learning how to balance energy is crucial for the anxious individual. This group of people reacts primarily based on emotions. They may be seen to be energetic and emotional to the point when they look a little bit unstable in a psychological way. To the state where they have closed themselves, their body language demonstrates limitations and defense. The opinions and positions often made in an emotionally heavy state of body and mind are put to extremes. To manage these reactions, the anxious person needs to find the balance between how they act and the meaning of every action. The more decisions and actions move from emotions to logical conclusions; the easier it becomes for these people to balance their appearance and internal world.
Say NO
A more significant part of anxious behavior is caused because the person cannot reject asks toward them. Often, these ask to move into a state of demand and increase stress levels. The anxious behavior then jumps from closed and limited situations to those whose impact becomes unpredictable. An important skill the anxious person must learn and accept is limiting stress. And one of the techniques to achieve that is to start saying NO to all the asks and demands toward them. But saying NO still has to be a controlled process with logical decisions that lead to constructive rejection, not abusive. The better the individual can learn how to say NO, the more balanced their days become and the higher the respect toward decisions taken from them becomes.
IN CONCLUSION:
Dealing with anxious behavior is a way of developing ourselves. Everyone can demonstrate this behavior at some point in time in their lives. Learning how to deal with this behavior and use it to build self-confidence can turn what looks hopeless behavior into a positive and impactful set of actions that reposition the person and make them feel more positive and successful.
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