Heather Rose - 7 Top Anxiety Management Techniques: How You Can Stop Anxiety And Release Stress Today

From time to time we all experiencefeelings of anxiety. Generally it can be described as a sense of uneasiness,worry, fear, dread or nervousness in a person relating to something that isabout to happen or to something that may happen.

The feelings that we get thatassociated with anxiety can be quite mild but they can also be quite intense.Of course this is dependent on the situation the person finds themself in andthe kind of person that they are.

Most of us will have to deal withfeelings of anxiety when faced with things that are unfamiliar or new to us.Plus these feelings will arise when we are faced with a situation that provesto be challenging. The kinds of situations that could cause such feelings tooccur would be when taking a test or going for an interview, even going out ona date for the first time can lead to you feeling more anxious than is normal.Yet even though these situations dont actually place any physical threat onour lives that can still cause us to feel threatened because we are worriedthat we are going to make a mistake.

As anxiety makes us much more alertand focused so that we can head off any potential problems that may come ourway, suffering from a little anxiety can actually help us to do better incertain situations. However if the feelings are too strong then there is a riskthat they can interfere with what we are trying to do. In fact if one isfeeling too anxious there is everything possibility that one will feelcompletely overwhelmed even when faced with a simple task or situation and arenot able to do what is required of them.

Today anxiety disorders have becomevery much part of some peoples lives so that even the most normal reactionsrelating to anxiety can result in them creating doubts in that persons mindrelating to their mental health.

What one needs to remember is that feelinganxious is normal and helps you to cope more effectively with the stress thatmany of us are faced with today. However it only becomes a disorder when theanxious feelings you are having are completely out of proportion to the levelsof stress you are faced with.

In fact what you are feeling whenyou are anxious is a completely normal and natural human reaction that not onlyinvolves your mind but also your body. It is a very important function thathelps us to survive. It is in fact our bodys alarm system that becomes activewhen we perceive that we may be in danger or threatened.

When we perceive that we may be indanger then certain physical sensations occur. Generally when we feel anxiousour hearts beat faster and our breathing becomes much more rapid. Furthermoreour muscles will start to become tense and we feel nauseous and we start tosweat a lot more especially from the palms of our hands. Plus of course we tendto find that our hands and legs begin to tremble. All of these sensations we arefeeling are part of our bodies mechanism to protect us from anything weconsider to be dangerous. The sensations we are feeling when anxious are causedby our bodies producing excess amounts of adrenaline and other chemicals thatcan then help us to move away from the danger we sense as quickly as possible.

These sensations occur very quicklyas soon as we sense we may be in danger. However what you need to be aware ofis that the thinking part of our brains (the Cortex) needs time to process andevaluate the situation to determine if the threat is for real or not and thendetermines how best to handle it. Normally a signal will be sent from our brainthat confirms that there is no real danger and we can relax once more.