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How To Get Rid of Anxiety — A 5-Step Plan
4 min readJun 20, 2021
- Meditation — Meditation practices Self-Awareness which allows you to disrupt anxiety based thinking.
Meditate 5–30 Minutes a day for 1–3 weeks before you add the points below. Headspace (No paid promotion) is a great start for getting into Meditations. - Writing down your Thoughts — In addition to Meditation try to write down your thoughts multiple times a day. It is likely that your anxiety comes from the Narrative you have with yourself throughout the day.
Keep a thought-journal and set 3–10 reminders a day to write into this journal. - Action — What steps are you going to take to solve the causes of this anxiety-based-thinking? “Okay… now what?” Accept the thought for what it is; a thought, and then try to move into doing something about it.
Remember: If you cannot do anything about it, what’s the point in worrying? It will stay the same anyway. And if you can do something about it, what’s the point in worrying? It will not stay the same.
Whenever you write down a thought that makes you anxious immediately behind it write what you will do about it. - Daily Rituals — Habits and Routines are the key to pre-emptively combating most of your anxious thoughts. Spend 5 Minutes a day on each task important to you or create strong habits that you engage with daily that combat your biggest Anxiety-driven thoughts.
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