What was a life changing quote or tip that helped you with your anxiety?

BOB

Meditation practising helped me alot.

It's all about understanding yourself so you have to spend some time with it.

All you have to do is close your eyes and take slow deep breaths while observing all of your thoughts and feelings, nothing more nothing less.

By that I mean neither supress these thoughts or interact with them.

Just observe and try to be calm.

You can do that anytime wether you feel anxious or not.

Our brain has evolved through ages to fight dangers that our ancestors encountered in their lives-which are way more the dangers we have-, so it developed that feeling of fear that we can take action to avoid it, so when we have a bad experience or emotional disturbance, our brain is senstive to that so it intiates that feeling of fear thinking there's something wrong for no obvious reason.

Understanding that is important as supressing these feelings will leave you in a state of conflict.

You have to be kind to yourself and try to understand it and explore it not fight with it.

Just observe all these feelings and sensations and even bad thoughts and see what happens within your body.

Also writing some paragraphs every day about anything in your mind is good, you don't have to be carful about what you write, just write everything that pops in your mind freely.

Also talking to people you love and hanging out with freinds and doing any thing that puts you in the mood or fill up your time is good.

I'm not free of anxiety yet but I found those things helpful so I liked to share! 😃

Dear Stella, I find that if you tell everyone it is just THOUGHTS in your head and NOT REALITY, and you can say to yourself that is what it is and take no notice of them.   I keep repeating to myself that I dont need to listen to these thoughts and that I am in charge.  It really helps.   I talk to my thoughts as though they were children and say things like -"For heavens Sake go away", or "dont be so daft". 

I quote " the pessimist stares at the ground as he walks and loses his way , the optimist walks looking up and trips and falls , while the realist walks looking forward and walks in stride with confidence to his destination "

Hope I can be of some help. I suffered from very bad anxiety for 4 or so years and have been completely cured for 7 or so and it's not coming back.  For a while I felt helpless as I didn't know how to combat it but I just began to study it.  The answer seemed simple but it's easier said then done.  It's clearly all in our head but I would work on staying busy even with bad anxiety and staying focused on something (tried to stay in the present). I would stop avoiding things that I would have in the past and the anxiety began to subside in the trigger type situations. It was very tough and exhausting but I got there.  I suffered from the constant anxiety, panic attacks, constant nausea, you name it.  Once the anxiety began subsiding because I would stay focused on other stuff, I began to gain more confidence.   Everybody can do it, I promise.

I have occasional anxiety, like only a few times a year.  I have recently started meditating (about a month ago) every day and I have found a huge difference in my resting heart rate and blood pressure.  I have high hopes that meditation will help me in the future with anxiety.  I highly suggest everyone try it because it's free and not damaging like meds.  A good app to try is Insight Timer, they have just music, talks, or guided meditation sessions.  It has been a life changer for me.