Our innate desire is to be happy, and when we move away from it, we experience fear.This fear is actually millions of years old, for it arises from the biological programming of our species.While we may not have to contend with a sabre-toothed tiger on any given day, we still use those very reactions to deal with events looming ahead.We think, "Will I be fired for making that mistake at work?" or "Will I be able to meet the mortgage after I fix the car?" or "Will my health continue to decline?" or "Will my relationship fall apart after that argument we just fell into?"Running questions with this type of urgency and helplessness trains our brains to prepare now for future danger by loading our bodies up with the stress hormone cortisol.Anxiety is our anticipation of a dangerous future. We imagine having even less of the little that we have today.
But you can treat anxiety without having to take these kinds of medicines, and in fact, many people successfully treat their anxiety and panic disorder by alternative therapies such from therapy to herbal roots and teas that are meant to calm the mind and body.Maybe you've heard of positive thinking before? It seems too simple to work, but does it have to be complicated? There are a lot of people who find a great deal of relief from symptoms of anxiety when they start looking at their problems a little bit differently.If you think about how you become anxious many times, you will see that it is the way you are thinking that triggers a panic episode. You think that every single thing that happens to you is having a negative effect on your life, and so it does.Having anxiety means that you spend every single minute analyzing every situation you are in, and seeing the worst that could happen. This is our mind's way of tricking us into changing the way that we live our life when we develop these anxiety disorders.
Caught between a miserable past and a frightening future you create a pattern of emotions that can lead to a variety of mood disorders, including manic-depression.How do we escape from this vicious cycle?Here is what I did 20 years ago and I have never since suffered from any serious mood disorder.I started to cultivate my awareness of my mood swings--from elation to black despair.I did this by basically watching myself when I was manic, and watching myself when I was depressed, and watching what I did to turn on these states. For example to get depressed, I used my love of literature to focus on dark, morbid, and unhappy stories about life. And to get elated, I would talk a lot, move very quickly, and do things in a dramatic way.
Although homeopathic medicine works on all physical and emotional ailments, I decided to focus on anxiety in this article because anxiety seems to be at an all time high in our society. Anxiety can stop you in your tracks and have a devastating impact on the quality of your life. It is an intense emotional pain that we will do anything to avoid. We are programmed to move away from pain towards pleasure as quickly as possible. When we do this with anxiety, the anxiety gathers momentum because it is not challenged (what we resist persists). In our bid to avoid future bouts of anxiety, we will develop a range of strategies to cope. One strategy is avoidance. The anxious person knows what triggers their anxiety so they avoid those situations. This hugely restricts the freedom of the sufferer and leaves the anxiety lying dormant just waiting to strike again. Often people with anxiety will not seek treatment because they fear that they will have to face their anxiety and suffer through it in order to be cured. This is not the case with homeopathic medicine. Homeopathy does not just control the symptoms of anxiety. It cures the anxiety at its root. It cures naturally and safely without conscious effort on your part. I will list some useful remedies at the end of this article, but first let us look at anxiety.
There are various intensities of anxiety ranging from the mild natural anxiety felt when facing a new situation right up to the horror of a full-blown panic attack. People suffering from emotional pain will tell you that they would far rather suffer a physical pain than the agony of anxiety or depression. Symptoms of anxiety can include rapid heartbeat and breathing, shaking, nausea, sweating, muffled hearing, feeling faint, great fear, desire to escape. People who suffer panic attacks will tell you that the sensation of panic can be so dramatic they feel as if they are going to die.
What is the ADHD and anxiety connection? How can homeopathic remedies for anxiety help with ADHD? Let us take the diagnostic view first. When children are diagnosed with ADHD, they are more than likely to suffer from a co-morbid disorder. As if ADHD was not enough.In an About Our Kids survey, it was found that up to 25% of children with ADHD also suffer from anxiety. The same figure holds for those diagnosed with anxiety in that ADHD is going to occur in about a quarter of the children.
So why do we feel this anxiety in certain situations? And why is it that some people can cope well with these situations and others can't? The answer lies in our thoughts. Our body reacts in this way to 'perceived' danger. Perceived is the important word here, because we create our own perceptions usually from past experience. So, lets take our example of being anxious about doing a presentation in front of a group of people. This is a very common fear and I think it largely has its roots in our young school days. It could be that someone with this fear was asked to read out loud in class at school. They may have made a mistake and the whole class laughed at them. Obviously nobody would want to experience this type of situation again so the unconscious mind decides that this type of activity is now a danger to you. Any future events that you may face that have any elements relating to the school experience will be seen as a danger to you and will provoke a fight or flight response to keep you safe. Once you understand what is happening (you are not really in danger of losing your life etc) you can consciously decide to challenge this response. This is however quite a difficult thing to do which is why people suffering anxiety will do anything to avoid situations that trigger their anxiety.
This avoidance, which is totally understandable, can gather momentum at break neck speed, especially when panic attacks are involved, because the sufferer will then start becoming anxious about having to face their anxiety! Fear of fear itself! As stated earlier, our perception is the key to this. Any feeling we experience, good or bad, is not created by our experience in that moment. The meaning we place on that experience creates the feeling. This is where our power lies. One way of gradually chipping away at anxiety is to be aware of and challenge our thoughts. Every thought produces an emotional and physiological response. You will therefore be able to gauge the quality of your thoughts by the way you are currently feeling. If you decide to use homeopathic remedies to cure your anxiety, before starting treatment, rate your anxiety level from 1 to 10 (10 being the highest level). This will help you see the great progress you are making during treatment if your cure is not swift and dramatic. Everyone is different and will heal at their own pace.
Applied relaxation treatment - This anxiety remedy aims to help people relax or practice relaxation techniques whenever they are faced with anxiety-inducing situations. One of the main aims of this therapy is to help you relax or loosen your muscles when you start to feel anxious. Breathing techniques or using words such as "relax" are examples of the applied relaxation treatment.
Argentum nitrucum.This remedy is indicated for obsessive disorder, panic attacks and claustrophobia. You may feel compelled to look for exits. You may be easily overwhelmed by panic, which makes you restless and agitated. You may constantly create (often strange) disaster scenarios in your mind.Calcium Carbonica.May be indicated in children with school phobia. The child finds it hard to face new situations. May have had slow developmental milestones.Silica.A good remedy for people who are shy and not confident in social settings and may withdraw into their own world when faced with social exposure.Gelsemium.Take for fear of failure before an exam or interview.Nux Vomica.Good for workaholics who worry about business and turn to alcohol to ease stress. They often eat unhealthy fatty foods. They may be bad tempered.Rhus toxicodendron.This is useful for people who are superstitious and do things such as avoid cracks in the pavement. They may compulsively check that things are turned off before leaving the house.
[Remedies For Anxiety]
But you can treat anxiety without having to take these kinds of medicines, and in fact, many people successfully treat their anxiety and panic disorder by alternative therapies such from therapy to herbal roots and teas that are meant to calm the mind and body.Maybe you've heard of positive thinking before? It seems too simple to work, but does it have to be complicated? There are a lot of people who find a great deal of relief from symptoms of anxiety when they start looking at their problems a little bit differently.If you think about how you become anxious many times, you will see that it is the way you are thinking that triggers a panic episode. You think that every single thing that happens to you is having a negative effect on your life, and so it does.Having anxiety means that you spend every single minute analyzing every situation you are in, and seeing the worst that could happen. This is our mind's way of tricking us into changing the way that we live our life when we develop these anxiety disorders.
Caught between a miserable past and a frightening future you create a pattern of emotions that can lead to a variety of mood disorders, including manic-depression.How do we escape from this vicious cycle?Here is what I did 20 years ago and I have never since suffered from any serious mood disorder.I started to cultivate my awareness of my mood swings--from elation to black despair.I did this by basically watching myself when I was manic, and watching myself when I was depressed, and watching what I did to turn on these states. For example to get depressed, I used my love of literature to focus on dark, morbid, and unhappy stories about life. And to get elated, I would talk a lot, move very quickly, and do things in a dramatic way.
Although homeopathic medicine works on all physical and emotional ailments, I decided to focus on anxiety in this article because anxiety seems to be at an all time high in our society. Anxiety can stop you in your tracks and have a devastating impact on the quality of your life. It is an intense emotional pain that we will do anything to avoid. We are programmed to move away from pain towards pleasure as quickly as possible. When we do this with anxiety, the anxiety gathers momentum because it is not challenged (what we resist persists). In our bid to avoid future bouts of anxiety, we will develop a range of strategies to cope. One strategy is avoidance. The anxious person knows what triggers their anxiety so they avoid those situations. This hugely restricts the freedom of the sufferer and leaves the anxiety lying dormant just waiting to strike again. Often people with anxiety will not seek treatment because they fear that they will have to face their anxiety and suffer through it in order to be cured. This is not the case with homeopathic medicine. Homeopathy does not just control the symptoms of anxiety. It cures the anxiety at its root. It cures naturally and safely without conscious effort on your part. I will list some useful remedies at the end of this article, but first let us look at anxiety.
There are various intensities of anxiety ranging from the mild natural anxiety felt when facing a new situation right up to the horror of a full-blown panic attack. People suffering from emotional pain will tell you that they would far rather suffer a physical pain than the agony of anxiety or depression. Symptoms of anxiety can include rapid heartbeat and breathing, shaking, nausea, sweating, muffled hearing, feeling faint, great fear, desire to escape. People who suffer panic attacks will tell you that the sensation of panic can be so dramatic they feel as if they are going to die.
What is the ADHD and anxiety connection? How can homeopathic remedies for anxiety help with ADHD? Let us take the diagnostic view first. When children are diagnosed with ADHD, they are more than likely to suffer from a co-morbid disorder. As if ADHD was not enough.In an About Our Kids survey, it was found that up to 25% of children with ADHD also suffer from anxiety. The same figure holds for those diagnosed with anxiety in that ADHD is going to occur in about a quarter of the children.
So why do we feel this anxiety in certain situations? And why is it that some people can cope well with these situations and others can't? The answer lies in our thoughts. Our body reacts in this way to 'perceived' danger. Perceived is the important word here, because we create our own perceptions usually from past experience. So, lets take our example of being anxious about doing a presentation in front of a group of people. This is a very common fear and I think it largely has its roots in our young school days. It could be that someone with this fear was asked to read out loud in class at school. They may have made a mistake and the whole class laughed at them. Obviously nobody would want to experience this type of situation again so the unconscious mind decides that this type of activity is now a danger to you. Any future events that you may face that have any elements relating to the school experience will be seen as a danger to you and will provoke a fight or flight response to keep you safe. Once you understand what is happening (you are not really in danger of losing your life etc) you can consciously decide to challenge this response. This is however quite a difficult thing to do which is why people suffering anxiety will do anything to avoid situations that trigger their anxiety.
This avoidance, which is totally understandable, can gather momentum at break neck speed, especially when panic attacks are involved, because the sufferer will then start becoming anxious about having to face their anxiety! Fear of fear itself! As stated earlier, our perception is the key to this. Any feeling we experience, good or bad, is not created by our experience in that moment. The meaning we place on that experience creates the feeling. This is where our power lies. One way of gradually chipping away at anxiety is to be aware of and challenge our thoughts. Every thought produces an emotional and physiological response. You will therefore be able to gauge the quality of your thoughts by the way you are currently feeling. If you decide to use homeopathic remedies to cure your anxiety, before starting treatment, rate your anxiety level from 1 to 10 (10 being the highest level). This will help you see the great progress you are making during treatment if your cure is not swift and dramatic. Everyone is different and will heal at their own pace.
Applied relaxation treatment - This anxiety remedy aims to help people relax or practice relaxation techniques whenever they are faced with anxiety-inducing situations. One of the main aims of this therapy is to help you relax or loosen your muscles when you start to feel anxious. Breathing techniques or using words such as "relax" are examples of the applied relaxation treatment.
Argentum nitrucum.This remedy is indicated for obsessive disorder, panic attacks and claustrophobia. You may feel compelled to look for exits. You may be easily overwhelmed by panic, which makes you restless and agitated. You may constantly create (often strange) disaster scenarios in your mind.Calcium Carbonica.May be indicated in children with school phobia. The child finds it hard to face new situations. May have had slow developmental milestones.Silica.A good remedy for people who are shy and not confident in social settings and may withdraw into their own world when faced with social exposure.Gelsemium.Take for fear of failure before an exam or interview.Nux Vomica.Good for workaholics who worry about business and turn to alcohol to ease stress. They often eat unhealthy fatty foods. They may be bad tempered.Rhus toxicodendron.This is useful for people who are superstitious and do things such as avoid cracks in the pavement. They may compulsively check that things are turned off before leaving the house.
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