Exercises To Calm Your Anxious Mind
The 1st Exercise: MOVE!
As a fitness coach for more than 14 years, I can attest to the power of exercise to calm or revitalize your mind.
"Physiology affects psychology and vice versa."
When your mind is stuck, anxious, or uninspired, usually after we have been trying so hard to "think" beneficially, but it's in vain, this is also a moment to stop thinking.
Instead, go for a walk, do calve jumps, or do some stretching if you want. The key is, MOVE!
Get the stagnant energy moving and allow it to flow. Not only to release the healthy brain chemicals that help you feel better when you move but also when you CHANGE the state, i.e., insist on "thinking" a way out but futile to another state which is to move, you CHANGE! You can make no change if you keep doing the same thing.
The 2nd Exercise: Tell A Different Story.
Another exercise you can calm your anxious mind is reframing. Yes, it is not a physical exercise but a mental exercise.
We first have to understand anxiety is not a bad thing. It can wake you from potential hazards and alert you to make possible plans or preventive measures. It only becomes a problem when it sticks around.
And neurologically, anxiety is not that different from excitement. It is different depending on how you categorize it.
Let's say two people are going for a Six-Flag roller coaster ride. During the ride, two people are experiencing pounding of the heart, shallow and fast breathing, and screaming to hell. One call it excitement because he thinks it is safe, adventurous, and fun. While the other calls it nervousness and anxiety because he believes it is dangerous and unsafe.
It applies to many life situations, such as having a baby, getting married, receiving a promotion, etc.
They are not inherently anxious or exciting events, but they become a certain kind when a certain story or meaning is attributed to them.
Reframing the meaning of a specific life situation in the unconscious mind through hypnosis is one of the most common topics clients are coming for. Most of them aren't oblivious to their problems. In fact, they become experts having spent so much conscious effort, grit, and willpower to try to solve the issues.
However, they find the problems "stubborn," not because they aren't working on them, but because they are working too hard in their head!
You will see wonders in one or a couple of sessions of hypnotherapy because the change is made not in your head but in your heart, i.e., in your powerful unconscious mind.