Logic and Healthy Living As Natural Remedies For Anxiety

If you suffer from frequent worrying or full blown GAD (General Anxiety Disorder) you may find it helpful to consider the logic and healthy-living type of natural remedies for anxiety before turning to prescription medication.

Tackling your worries from a logic perspective, considering how you process problems and issues in your life, adopting a habit of questioning your worries and fears and trying a little harder to perceive things in a more positive way can be very helpful.

Oftentimes when a person suffers from constant worry they could be suffering from a kind of cognitive disorder, a generally negative way of looking at things. Here are some examples:

• overly simplifying outcomes: if they aren't absolutely perfect, you find yourself feeling like a failure.
• from the time something bad did happen: misfortune will continue.
• because bad things do happen: you start to ignore the good things and only focus on negative possibilities.
• seeing the positives in life as just invalid coincidences or 'dumb luck'.
• accepting hasty negative assumptions and expectations as 'facts'.
• automatically accepting the worst possibilities as the most probable.
• thinking that how you feel reflects what is going to happen in reality.
• being to hard on yourself and/or others for mistakes.
• feeling like you are responsible for everything that goes wrong.

Logic and Healthy Living as Natural Remedies For Anxiety

Try instead, to focus on positive things that have happened in the past and positive possibilities for outcomes you are faced with in the future. Consider positivity and neutral outcomes and possibilities to be just as probable, if not more so, than negative outcomes.

Stress, over work, inadequate rest, lack of exercise and unhealthy diet can also result in GAD symptoms by unbalancing brain chemicals and allowing stress hormones to be produced. Poor physical condition such as muscle tension, blood pressure and aches and pains can also contribute to excessive worries.

Some very effective lifestyle type natural remedies for anxiety are diet improvements like cutting back on sugar and caffeine and eliminating alcohol and nicotine. Getting enough sleep and exercising for 30 or more minutes a day can also reduce the body's production of stress hormones and instead, encourage the releasing of endorphins and extra energy helping a person to feel better.

It's also good to pair a healthy exercise routine with relaxation sessions. You can do this with either meditation, tai chi, yoga, progressive relaxation techniques and deep breathing.

Also, avoid being 'the strong silent type'. Talking about your fears with others in your circle of family and friends can help reduce the 'threatening' quality of worries and allow you to focus more on more positive things.