Tools for overcoming anxiety and finding inner peace

Have you ever wondered how to cope with uncomfortable emotions like anxiety without getting overwhelmed or shutting down?

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perhaps you've thought, "I just want this uncomfortable feeling to go away before I start working on my recovery."

However, for your nervous system to feel safe and regain energy, you need to process the emotions that keep you cycling back to a survival state of fight, flight, or freeze.

You can't force or bypass the uncomfortable feeling, but you can help yourself feel safe enough to acknowledge that it's there and that it's not wrong or bad. This is the first step in the mind body harmony.

It's challenging to emotionally process when your body is in crisis. Therefore, you want to gently let your nervous system know that you can be with the uncomfortable feeling by using somatic practices that open a little bit of the release valve.

However, somatic practices are not intended to make the hard feelings disappear but to help you feel them without feeling like they're going to take you down.

To heal the mental, physical, and emotional stressors that cause you stress, you need to feel your emotions.

Emotions are energy that is supposed to flow through us, except when we hold onto them and don't know how to ride them out.

Learning how to attune your body, energy, and overcome burnout will enable you to enjoy your life fully.

Although the hard stuff passes, so does the good stuff, and if you don't learn to let yourself enjoy the beauty, you'll miss out on some incredible things.

I often use somatic practices to help me be with uncomfortable emotions and release them.

As I'm doing these practices, I feel safe enough to let what was truly bothering me underneath all that fight, flight, freeze to come to the surface.

I might cry, journal, or get clear on the action I need to take next. Either way, my body, mind, spirit, or nervous system understands a bit more about what it needs to heal in that moment.

Somatic practices refer to a broad range of techniques and exercises that help individuals to connect with and become more aware of their physical sensations, movements, and experiences.

These practices can include mindful breathing, body scanning, yoga, dance, meditation, and other forms of movement or touch-based therapies.

The goal of somatic practices is to cultivate a greater sense of self-awareness and to help individuals learn to regulate their nervous system and emotional states.

By tuning into physical sensations and experiences, somatic practices can help individuals to process and release stuck emotions and trauma and promote a greater sense of overall well-being.