🔼: [[Medical Conditions and Diagnoses]], [[⭐️ Emotions]], [[Disorientation and Disconnection|Disorientation]] # Anxiety >“You are afraid of surrender because you don’t want to lose control, but you never had control; all you had was anxiety.” >— Elizabeth Gilbert Anxiety is a [[⭐️ Emotions|feeling]] of danger in absence of threat. It can mean excessively worrying about everyday situations. It seems to come out of no where and can manifest as both physical and psychological symptoms. It looks a bit like this: 😬 <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XB401RfGMlM?feature=oembed" height="113" width="200" style="aspect-ratio: 1.76991 / 1; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></iframe> [[💡 Proactive Protectors]] often help us by keeping a schedule and maintaining routines >"Functional Anxiety is useful. An alarm app for a presentation tomorrow we haven’t worked on. It tells us what we need to know and then it goes away when we deal with it. >Dysfunctional Anxiety takes us uncomfortable and out of the moment for as long as we ignore it." >— Dr. Percy Ballard[^1] ![[Anxiety and Excitement]] ###### Working with Anxiety[^2] - [[🕯️ Breathwork 💨]], especially [[💨 Box Breathing]] can help soothe anxiety. - [[🕯️ Movement Practices 👟]], even [[👟 Walking]] or [[🛠 Dance|dancing]] to [[🛠 Music]]. Movement releases [[💡 Dopamine]], [[💡 Serotonin (5-HT)]], [[Norepinephrine]], and [[Endorphins]] which boost positive mood-states and decrease negative mood-states. - Once the anxiety is soothed we'll be [[🕯️ Unblending|unblended]] enough to evaluate what it was that evoked the anxiety and then communicate with others with [[☀️ Calm]] to address those things. ![[Nutrition for Anxiety]] ![[Supplements for Anxiety]] ###### See Also - [[Social Anxiety]] - [[💡 Death Anxiety]] - [[Health Anxiety]] - Anxiety is low-grade [[Horror]]. It's atmospheric and nebulous, in contrast to [[💡 Fear|fear]] which is about an observable cause or immediate threat. - [[🦮 How to make decisions]] [^1]: [[📖 ✅ Atlas of the Heart (Show)]] Episode 2 [^2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpiWSFcL3-c