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Three Mindful Ways to Calm an Anxious Mind - Mindful
Practice tuning into the senses
In moments of moderate to intense anxiety, the 3×3 practice can come in handy.
Drop into 3 of your senses and name 3 things that you notice about them: the things you’re seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling, or hearing. This can help interrupt the automatic catastrophic thinking that’s fuelling the anxiety.
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Release the critic
Not only is anxiety painful enough, but we often get hit with a second round of self-critical thoughts.
If your judgments make you more anxious, see if you can interrupt your self-critic by dropping into your heart and saying, “May I learn to be kinder to myself.”
Practice tuning into the senses
In moments of moderate to intense anxiety, the 3×3 practice can come in handy.
Drop into 3 of your senses and name 3 things that you notice about them: the things you’re seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling, or hearing. This can help interrupt the automatic catastrophic thinking that’s fuelling the anxiety.
Channel your anxious energy
If your anxiety isn’t severe, you can actually channel that energy into something productive.
For example, if you’re nervously waiting to hear some news, get active—go for a walk, clean, organize, or garden instead.
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Anxiety tends to build over time. Through awareness, we can help minimize its effects.
Our anxiety is trying to help us. Our body is trying to tell us it has new needs. Start noticing what makes you anxious and what takes you out, as well as when it happens.
Meditate to calm your nervous system
Meditation as a practice is useful to tune into awareness and to calm your nervous system.
To start, take a minute or two to pay attention to where your mind wanders. When you're able to begin noticing problematic situations through the practice of awareness, you can stop doing them.
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See with new eyes
Take a familiar object from your home and examine it as if you’ve never seen it before.
Is there something you’d forgotten or never noticed before, or is your experience or reaction altered by your interest?
Notice how objects feel
You could also work with an inner feeling, directing awareness to a part of your body, noticing what sensations are present.
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Change brings uncertainty
Five keys to dealing with uncertainty
- Recognize that there is only so much you can do right now, and that makes you human, not powerless.
- Envision the best, while being realistic. People tend to overestimate the risks and negative consequences and that leads to a lot of anxiety.
- You've faced uncertainty before. Take time to think and reflect on what helped you before.
- Although dealing with uncertainty is hard, there are consequences for not facing it head-on.
- See the Possibility.