From Anxiety to Calm in Three Easy Steps

If the change of seasons triggered anxiety, loss or sadness, you are not alone. At different times of the year we get inundated with phone calls from people suffering from anxiety, melancholy, loneliness, sadness and GI problems.

With just a little practice, you can feel and automatic relief from anxiety, stress, and other uncomfortable feelings, using the Power of your own Mind.

It may surprise you to learn that feelings are actually are actually caused by thoughts, pictures and memories that move quickly through the mind. Sometimes people are aware of these thoughts, and at other times they are completely unaware, the emotional results will be felt either way.

For example with the ending of summer, many people feel let down. Some are aware of their own thoughts of a cold, dark, lonely winter approaching. Others are sad as they review the summer and feel haven’t had all the fun they expected to. Whether you are aware of the thought or not the feelings caused by them, then trigger other memories of sadness or disappointment and that adds to the negative feelings.

The good news is that there are many ways to quickly change feelings and gain a new perspective. To begin the process of transforming negative feelings to positive ones it’s important to understand how these feelings come about in the first place.

There are two major ways that upset feelings are created:

1. Thinking about upsetting past issue.
2. Thinking about awful things that might happen in the future, and worrying about them as if they have already taken place.

When a person concentrates on all the possible negative scenarios that might come about, it is understandable that feelings of sadness, fear or insecurity arise.

One easy method in taking back control of your feelings is to begin to recognize the thoughts underlying them, and then to change them to more enhancing, positive thoughts. To begin to change anxiety to relief in 3 Easy Steps do the following:

1. Think about an event that has been causing sadness, anger or another uncomfortable feeling.
2. Then begin to make a list the negative thoughts that come up. (thoughts that are attached to this event)
3. Now, write down two possible positive (more enhancing, calming) thoughts, for each negative one you have written down.

For example if you were thinking about a cold, dreary winter, you could make up a more positive picture of an exciting winter activity, like skiing, sledding, or ice-skating. Or if you are more sedentary you might create a thought of yourself doing something else you enjoy in the winter months, like reading a book by a warm fire, or sipping a cup of hot cocoa.

By changing the focus to new, more positive thoughts, you send a message to your subconscious mind, that all is well. Over time the new messages will change feelings to more positive ones. Since it is your mind, you might as well use it in this positive, self enhancing way. For more information on other powerful ways to use your own mind and the inner wisdom held there, go to anxietycontrolcenter.com.

This is only the beginning of your taking control back. There are many other easy ways available to clear up, repressed negative emotions. Most importantly you can recover your zest for life.