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Anxiety and Panic: How To Transform Your Anxiety Into Opportunity

If you suffer from anxiety or panic attacks, there are ways you can transform that anxiety into opportunity. These strategies are rather like turning lemons into lemonade. What you start out with is sour, but what you end up with is sweet!

These tips can help you deal with your anxiety in positive ways. Plus, they can even help reduce it by providing you new outlets for your nervous energy.

Tips for dealing with anxiety

Here are some techniques to help you transform your anxiety into opportunity:

1. Re-focus your excess energy. If you have the excessive energy that comes with anxiety and its moods, focus this energy toward doing something productive.

   For example, you may have been putting off doing some household tasks, such as cleaning out those closets. Putting your energy into one of these projects will enable you to get it done in record time! While you might have to concentrate harder to re-focus, you’re actually lowering the anxiety level in your body.

2. Write about your anxiety. Write down everything you’re feeling. Many times you’ll be surprised at what you’ve written and find you can share it with others or use it to help you in the future when you’re overly anxious.
3. Exercise. We all have said month after month that we’re going to start a new exercise regimen, but have we? Probably not, but you can use your anxious energy as the force that propels you to start your new exercise routine.

Have an exercise routine already planned so you have it ready to begin the moment you need it. The endorphins your body releases during exercise can actually stop an anxiety attack.


4. Try painting. Although painting a picture of pretty trees may help you, this particular technique refers to room painting! Painting has long been known to relax people.

If you have a room that could use a new look, get out the paint and start painting. Any big home improvement project can get you involved, diminish your panic feelings, and give you a sense of accomplishment when you’re done.

5. Sing. Even if you don’t possess the voice of a musical superstar, the way your body reacts when you sing, the force of breathing in and out, is a natural way to heal panic attacks.

Focusing your excess energy on playing a musical instrument, or learning how to play one, can also help your anxiety. Turn your anxious time into a musical time.

6. Help others. Volunteer at a family shelter or senior center. Focusing on helping others can use some of that excess energy, take your mind off your worries, give you a different perspective on life, and bring you satisfaction.
7. Do something about it. Find ways you can help solve particular problems you worry about. Any worrisome issues you have can be handled this way.

For example, if you worry about the environment, you can start a recycling center or hold green meetings in your home to discuss ways you can reduce your personal carbon footprint.

These are just a few of the ways you can transform your anxiety into opportunity. Try some of these strategies today to help you use that excess energy in a positive way and reduce your anxiety at the same time.

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How to Organize Your Kitchen … and reduce your anxiety

Depending on the size of your kitchen, you may sometimes have difficulty finding what you need. Could it be that you have too much stuff? Or is your kitchen disorganized?

And how does this impact your anxiety and stress level? A cluttered environment makes for a cluttered mind.

Organizing your kitchen can make things much easier for you, and it’s not the daunting task you may have imagined! And the sense of relief you can experience as a result will benefit you in many other ways.

Ways to free up space

Here are some ways to free up space in your kitchen and organize items more efficiently:

1. Get rid of old food in your pantry. Start by removing everything from your pantry or food cabinets. Go through every product and check to make sure the expiration date hasn’t passed.

   While you might be able to still use a container of frosting that expired six months ago, you definitely don’t want to use pancake mix that has been open since 2005. For your health and that of everyone in your family, if in doubt, throw it out.

   If you find you have too many cans of pumpkin or too much of another item that you’ll never use by their expiration dates, take them to your local food bank, rather than throwing them out. They’re happy to accept donations at any time of the year. What you donate could be the difference between a family going hungry or feeling nourished when they go to bed tonight.

2. Organize the food. Separate items according to kind. Gather all your canned goods together: soups, vegetables, sauces, fruits and others.

If you place each type of canned goods together, such as all fruit cocktail in one spot, you’ll be able to see at a glance whether you need to add an item to your grocery list. Do the same thing with boxed or bagged foods like cereal, crackers, and dessert mixes.

3. Consolidate. If you have more than one box of mashed potatoes open, they may have the same directions. If so, you can mix them together in one box. This will help you maximize the space you have in your pantry.
4. Follow the same process as above for the refrigerator and freezer. Get rid of expired items. Toss anything that may not be good any longer. Store like items together.
5. Go through your dishes. Do you have too many glasses, bowls, or plates? If you do, not only are they taking up cabinet space, but it also means more dishes to wash.

Pack away old dishes or serving items that you can’t bear to part with, like your grandmother’s old dishes, and any dishes that you don’t use regularly. You can always pull them back out if you have a larger number of people at your home.

6. Match plastic containers with their lids. If you can’t find the lid that goes with a particular bowl, remove it from your cabinet. You may still get use out of bowls without lids. Use them for mixing craft paints or for storing things.
7. Decide if the flow of your kitchen is adequate for how you cook. Dedicate an area of the kitchen for your essential cooking and baking tools. Keep spices near the stove within easy reach and your small baking utensils or trays in the same cabinet.
8. Store cookbooks in one place for easy access. You may want to keep these close to the baking center of your kitchen. Go through your cookbooks and get rid of any that you don’t use. If they have sentimental value, store them someplace other than the kitchen.
9. Re-think your table and chairs. Are your table and chairs adequate for your needs?

You may want to replace the chairs on one side with a bench that can be pushed under the table when you’re not using it. This might open up some floor space as well as provide more seating when you have extra people at your table.

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Organize and enjoy

If you think about how you use your kitchen and the atmosphere you’d like to convey, you can organize it so that you can better enjoy the time you spend there. It may take some effort, but when you have an organized kitchen ready for use, you’ll be so glad you took the time to do it.

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“Are You Suffering From Anxiety or Panic Attacks?”

Do you feel anxious before a dental visit or starting something new? Most of us do! It’s normal to have such fears. However, if your fears become debilitating or prevent you from performing your usual activities, you could have an anxiety or panic disorder.

Anxiety and panic disorders are overwhelming conditions, and many of us suffer from them. To better understand if your anxious feelings could be a sign of an anxiety or panic disorder, let’s take a look at some of the symptoms.

Common symptoms of panic and anxiety

Not everyone is the same, but these are some of the most common symptoms:

1. A feeling of your heart racing, or that you can’t breathe normally
2. Uncontrollable fears of things like crowded places, driving, or being in a position where you may have to converse in front of a group of people
3. The strong belief that something bad and disastrous will happen if things are not done in an exact and precise way
4. The inability to concentrate and the feeling of your mind wandering
5. Repetitive movements, such as walking around the same area over and over again, or repetitively twitching your fingers or toes
6. A feeling of doom, like something bad is getting ready to happen to you. You may feel like an accident, heart attack, or even death is impending, ready to happen at any moment.
7. Numbness in your hands, fingers, toes, and legs, or feeling like you can’t stand up
8. Trouble swallowing or unusual dry mouth episodes
9. Fear of people around you and the desire to be alone
10. The inability to even leave your home
11. Normal activities you’re always involved in become overwhelming to you

Many symptoms of anxiety and panic disorder can also lead to panic attacks. However, the good news is that there are now effective treatments and therapies to help you lessen the symptoms and conquer your anxiety or panic disorder.

There’s no need to feel embarassed

These conditions are no longer thought of as being something people should hide. There’s help for people who suffer from anxiety. Many mental health providers also offer affordable help if you’re on a lower or fixed income. Even your health insurance can help you get treatment.

As we learn more about the brain and its functions, we’re able to create more medications and other forms of relief. Relaxation techniques have been very effective for people who suffer from anxiety or panic attacks, and these techniques can even be done in your car or at your place of work.

Understanding your condition may be your best bet to overcoming your panic attacks. Once you understand why these things are happening to you, you’ll be better informed and able do something to relieve them.

The more we know about anxiety and panic attacks, the more we can do to keep them to a minimum or stop them altogether.

If you suffer from some of the symptoms above, seek professional help. Be sure to equip yourself with the knowledge and treatment that can stop your suffering and the effects it has on your body.

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