{"id":2554,"date":"2017-01-24T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2018-02-05T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:45:39","slug":"are-you-having-anxiety-here-are-7-tips-to-help-you-relax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/are-you-having-anxiety-here-are-7-tips-to-help-you-relax\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety Got You All Wired Up? Here Are 7 Tips to Help You Relax\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cherie Roe Dirksen of ConsciousLifeNews.com writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stewing in Your Juices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m normally quite a chilled person. Nothing phases me. Until\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I take on too much work<\/li>\n<li>I get into my \u2018yes\u2019 mode and make arrangements and dates that clog my diary<\/li>\n<li>I volunteer my services willy-nilly<\/li>\n<li>My housework starts to mount<\/li>\n<li>My \u2018to do\u2019 list grows around the garden (especially as I\u2019m trying to do the whole sustainability thing)<\/li>\n<li>I have awesome ideas but have to implement them (adding to the head clutter and time\/schedule disaster)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m sure you can probably relate to most of the above. Then what happens is that chilled out person who thought they could take on the world in a heart beat starts to panic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Signs of a Meltdown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The walls of my diary close in and anxiety starts to rear its ugly head.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panic attacks<\/li>\n<li>Sweaty palms<\/li>\n<li>Emotional outbursts (usually involving tears)<\/li>\n<li>Temper whirlwinds<\/li>\n<li>Depression<\/li>\n<li>Feeling defeated and impotent<\/li>\n<li>Losing it over the smallest things<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can experience the above on a smaller or larger scale, depending on the level of anxiety and what looms ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so what can be done?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anxiety Be Gone!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, I\u2019m trying to give myself a well-deserved pep talk here \u2019cause I suddenly realized the other day that I was slipping off the cliff of the \u2018work\u2019 I had piled up.<\/p>\n<p>Amid my darkest moment, I came to the conclusion that it was going to be done whether I fretted about it or not. And what couldn\u2019t be done was just not going to be done. It\u2019s really quite simple.<\/p>\n<p>So, on a practical level, try to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Get what\u2019s in your head down onto paper (this works a treat!)<\/li>\n<li>Now you can make a priority list<\/li>\n<li>Schedule your time wisely and you\u2019ll find you can fit a lot into your day<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t stress about how much you\u2019ve got to do by getting tangled up in the future tasks \u2014 concentrate on the task at hand<\/li>\n<li>Read no. 4 again.<\/li>\n<li>Yip\u2026read no. 4 and 5 again!<\/li>\n<li>As Yoda said, \u2018Do or do not\u2019 \u2014 in this context, do what you must do and stop whinging about it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/consciouslifenews.com\/anxiety-got-you-all-wired-up-heres-some-tips-to-help-you-relax\/11107062\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cherie Roe Dirksen is a self-empowerment author and multi-media artist from South Africa. To date, she has published 3 self-help and motivational books and brings out weekly inspirational blogs at her site\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link ext-icon-2 wpel-icon-right\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cherieroedirksen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">www.cherieroedirksen.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you liked this article you might also like: https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/reasons-to-celebrate-you-right-now\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherie Roe Dirksen of ConsciousLifeNews.com writes: Stewing in Your Juices I\u2019m normally quite a chilled person. Nothing phases me. Until\u2026 I take on too much work I get into my \u2018yes\u2019 mode and make arrangements and dates that clog my diary I volunteer my services willy-nilly My housework starts to mount My \u2018to do\u2019 list&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,16,7],"tags":[290,134,489,488],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-lifestyle","category-news","category-personalgrowthandsuccess","tag-anxiety","tag-habits","tag-relaxation","tag-stress-relief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4751,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/4751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}