Work With Anxiety & Not Against It | Quotes for Meditation Techniques To Control Anxiety

Meditation Techniques to learn to love your anxiety symptoms.
Imagine your anxiety and symptoms as a friend who's been through a lot. When a friend is hurting, you're there to comfort them, right? We're going to do something similar today.
Instead of pushing away or ignoring the anxiety symptoms, we're going to meet it with kindness and understanding. This might sound counterintuitive, but it's a powerful way to reduce the stress that anxiety can cause. By acknowledging and accepting, we can release the tension and anxiety.
We can create a sense of peace and calm. You can even use this technique when you are struggling with chronic pain.
Thank you to Emma McAdam, a licensed marriage and family therapist as well as the host of Therapy in a Nutshell.

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I’ve been feeling anxiety lately because of work and the deadline with the 401k audit and financial review audit. It’s so hard to shake that thought and feeling and what you say in this video is correct. Last year I felt the same thing and those feelings don’t go away until the audit is over. I’m trying this year after listening to this video to acknowledge and bring awareness to those anxiety feeling. What a lovely message, that our body is our friend and we can listen to it ❤.

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Hi Amy. I am sorry you are feeling stressed. Do you have to deal with this Audit every year? l don't know much about audits. I know what they are for and I can only imagine. I've always had extreme anxiety. Now that I am older, I can control it. However, when I was younger - I was in a panic constantly thinking I was not going to live to see the next day due to the weird feelings or symptoms. In my world the adults always said " You are fine. Stop being a baby." But that is how they grew up, so that is all they knew. I can't blame them for that. But as a young adult I started getting weird "allergy symptoms" out of nowhere as well. They were so severe that I couldn't go anywhere for months! Which made it all worse. I sneezed constantly, had an extremely stuffy but runny nose and watery eyes every single day... for months. To make a long story short, through observations of when it would happen, when it would subside etc, I realized - it was stress. It was extreme tension in my neck! I still have the issue but through stretching, exercising my shoulders and neck and just knowing my triggers, it doesn't happen very often. When it does, I know I need to just calm down. And I do my best to do just that. So the bad side though is any time I try to really concentrate on things, it'll make me sneeze now or if someone is stressing me out or if I am not wanting to be somewhere, Ill start sneezing, my ears start clogging.. hahahah I am literally a mood ring now! But yes, my body and I are in this together and I need to love the fact that it is looking out for me by trying to tell me that I am having an issue internally. I don't even know I am feeling unhappy until it happens and It makes me stop and check in with myself. So that is good. Sorry, this was long. 😊🥰💚 Keep up your exercising - it'll help you get through it. Burns away a lot of the anxiety as well.