“Anxiety is nothing, but repeatedly reexperiencing failure in advance” — Seth Godin
Remember your first stage performance? We are certain everyone must have enjoyed your presence but do you remember how much courage you must have gathered to step onto the stage, that fear, mental stress, nervousness, relentless heartbeat, quick or substantial breathing, numbness, any way you performed and engaged the crowd. In the end, you overlooked all the pressure you have had before the occasion. This is what is termed “anxiety”. We all experience anxiety before any important event or occasion. For instance, job interviews, project presentations, board meetings, and so on. It’s a typically terrifying articulation to the particular circumstance. However, post the occasion everything gets normal. Anxiety isn’t a disorder yet it doesn’t control your mind and start affecting your productivity.
In a recent survey, it’s noted that over 45 million Indian citizens are suffering from an anxiety disorder. Despite this fact, anxiety is largely misinterpreted with anxiety disorder, let’s understand the difference in a brief —
Practice these things to win the battle from your mind or anxiety:
Plug-in your earphones and go for a walk after a stressful day, you’ll realize what exercise does to your mind. If a casual walk can make so much difference, then what if you exercise daily in the morning. Indeed, it helps to improve physical health and gives you a better physique but that’s just one known and popular benefit of it. It has a lot more to give. It boosts mental ability, keeps you fresh and active throughout the day, reduces stress and anxiety, and assists to sleep better.
The problem at the desk? Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Congratulations! Now you’re all prepared to find the solution. This is the magic of meditation. Meditation is a scientifically proven remedy to enhance concentration, helps in introspection, and gives the confidence to fight against anxiety.
If you exercise and meditate daily, that will uplift your patience level and ability to think and seek solutions even in hard times. Answers are always hidden in the question. Only a person with patience and the right state of mind can dig deep down and get the solution. Apparently, if you have a solution in hand, certainly you’ll drop the anxiety.
Nowadays, people have become more solution-oriented. They know if they have the solution there’s nothing to worry about. However, this approach is being used incorrectly. People start finding a solution even before realizing the root cause, which leads to failure and increased anxiety. Therefore, it’s crucial to apprehend the problem first.
A daily routine raises the boredom in life, reduces innovative competency, brings down the thinking ability, and diminishes the concentration level. Hence, it is required to take frequent breaks from normal routine and experience something new. Frequent breaks from your daily life, also help in learning more skills and life lessons that improve your mood, living standards, lessens stress, and anxiety.
It is essential yet difficult to understand the fact that not everything is in our hands, sometimes all we can do is to accept the unfortunate as it is, and let it go. When an individual accumulates the fortitude to accept the circumstance as is, it helps to move on and look into other important tasks. It increases the ability to prioritize jobs, helps in better decision making, and enhances productivity at work.
Only you can understand what specifically triggers your mind and makes you anxious. Introspection is the ideal approach to know what causes you anxiety, and once you understood the problem, you got the solution.
Since anxiety has become a common yet major issue. It is now essential to look into thae matter and find a solution for it. A person reduces their mental ability when anxious. Therefore, you must try these simple ways to reduce anxiety at the workplace and let us know how much this blog benefitted you in real life. Also, share your stories when you feel anxious and how you deal with the situation.