How Strong People
Calm Anxiety

Let’s start here:

What is anxiety?

Anxiety is an intense and persistent worry or fear that can be caused by genetic predisposition, personality traits, stressful circumstances, past trauma, or substances. Anxious thoughts can leave you feeling overwhelmed and emotionally exhausted. The question is, how can we calm it?

The first step is to identify what you’re feeling and what triggered it because anxiety can show up in multiple ways. Most commonly people suffer from panic attacks or anxiety attacks. While similar, these attacks have some important differences:

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How can I calm my anxiety?

Focus on your breathing.

When you're anxious your body activates its sympathetic nervous system. You can calm it down by activating your parasympathetic nervous system. It sounds complicated, but it's really simple.

Do some belly breathing.

1. Put one hand on your chest.
2. Put one hand on your belly.
3. Breathe through your nose and watch your belly go up and down, not your chest.

Don't hold onto your stress and anxiety any longer.

If you held a glass of water for a minute, you'd be fine. But if you held it for a week, you'd be hurting. The weight of the water hasn't changed, but how long you held it has.

Focus on your breath, engage your body, and allow the stress to melt away.

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