Constant anxiety, anxiety, anxiety, fears - all this prevents a person from achieving their goals. The saddest thing is that it is extremely difficult to get rid of obsessive thoughts and switch to the most crucial moments. Suddenly, hands begin to sweat, heartbeat quickens, it becomes difficult to sit still. Focusing is almost impossible. As a result, such a person often feels unhappy and insecure, failures literally stick to him. What to do, how to stop nervous about and without?
Why are we nervous?
Indeed, why do some people keep calm and composure even in dangerous, life-threatening situations, while others get nervous even over trifles? Causes of nervousness can be both psychological and physiological:
- Psychological causes are associated with personality traits. More than others experience people who tend to overestimate the significance of current events, uncertain, shy, depending on the opinions of others. Most often, problems begin in childhood, when a child is not understood and not accepted by relatives, restricting his or her independence. However, sometimes nervousness appears with age, due to accumulated experience of failures and upheavals.
- Physiological causes - emotional instability caused by diseases of the nervous system. Strong anxiety is characteristic of depressive states, nervousness, schizophrenia, withdrawal symptoms, alcohol and drug addiction. Also, emotional instability can be a sign of vegetative-vascular dystonia. Often appears in insomnia. In all these cases, it is impossible to get rid of nervousness only by changing mental attitudes. It is important to combine such practices with qualified treatment.
Not to mention the additional factors that cause increased anxiety and anxiety: material inconsistency, poverty, illness, prolonged exposure to the sun, noise. It is known that residents of large cities are more prone to experiencing. Excess information, continuous background noise from cars, polluted air put an additional burden on the nervous system.
How to stop worrying about any reason?
For those who have not encountered such a problem, it seems simple. One has only to add self-confidence, learn to be distracted at the right time, and everything, nervousness will remove like a hand. Unfortunately, this is not the case. It’s not easy to fight with oneself and so, and if one feels strongly depressed and insecure in one’s own abilities, then such attempts at self-control will not give any result. What to do?
How to stop being nervous for any reason? First you need to understand that to solve the problem requires an integrated approach. In addition to psychological practices, it is important to take care of your physical health.
Psychological techniques
It is best to conduct such classes in the morning. Training should be regular. So, let's begin:
- Stand near the mirror and imagine a dangerous situation for yourself, think about the problems that worry you the most. Bring yourself to the peak of experiences. Now look at your reflection. How has your face changed? Do you feel tension in your whole body? By effort, get rid of all signs of anxiety. Relax your body, face muscles, smile, show your tongue, wink. This technique is based on the fact that external peace helps to achieve internal peace. The principle of feedback - well-being determines facial expressions, but facial expression determines well-being.
- Arm yourself with a leaf and pen, or better still get a special notebook. Record all your worries and fears. Now think about each item. Try to find the positive aspects of your position. Example: "They may fire me soon. This is a good reason to find a better-paying, interesting job. I’ll be lucky, I will do everything for this!" Write down your positive attitudes, underlined in red.
- Train yourself to practice breathing exercises daily. It should be done 2 hours after meals. Sit on a chair, straighten your back. Inhale air through the nose, filling the lungs as much as possible. Engage the diaphragm, that is, breathe with the stomach (only do not push it out strongly). Inhale for 4 seconds, then hold the air for 2 seconds, exhale slowly (4 seconds). Repeat the exercise 3-4 times, taking a break of 1 minute. By the way, such breathing helps to calm down at a crucial moment.
Simultaneously with the exercises should try to follow the following recommendations:
- Solve problems as they come. Drive away disturbing thoughts about the past and the future. Only the present matters.
- Give up watching TV at least an hour before bedtime. This will help you relax faster, tune in to sleep.
- Accept the inevitable, and think about what exactly is in your power to fix. Make sure that such thoughts do not take too much time. Take half a hour to think about life, preferably in the morning or afternoon.
- Recognize the right to be imperfect. Everyone has some flaws.
- Mark your positive qualities, develop them.
- Remember that everything passes and it passes. After some time, today's problem will not seem so significant and significant.
- Try to laugh more. Watch comedy programs, movies, read jokes, communicate with fun people.
- Whatever happens, take your time. Haste unnecessarily excites the nervous system, the brain literally turns off. If you are worried about something, first of all, you need to sit down and calm down.
- Find the output to the accumulated voltage. Shout, run, do some sport. Accumulated negative can cause stress.
Advice from the author. If you find it difficult to control yourself, carry a bottle of still water with you. This is a proven method that, in its time, helped me a lot to cope with any trifles. In a nervous situation, slowly drink about a glass of water. This triggers the body's self-rehabilitation mechanism, soothes the heartbeat and simply distracts.
We strengthen the nervous system
Healthy strong nerves - a pledge of mental balance and tranquility. If you do not know how to stop being nervous over trifles, then you should definitely listen to the following recommendations:
- Make sure that the food was complete and as balanced as possible. Citrus fruits, bananas, dairy products, apples, legumes, dark chocolate and seafood are especially useful for the nervous system.
- Sip on the vitamin complex. The lack of nutrients in the body adversely affects both physical and mental health. Anxiety over trifles can be a sign of deficiency of vitamins B1, B6, B12, A, C, E, D.
- Sleep at least 8 hours. Full, deep sleep helps reduce anxiety levels. When a person is sleeping, his body self-regenerates.
- Be physically active. A healthy nervous system is impossible without exercise. It is best to strengthen the nerves suitable for brisk walking, running, swimming. In addition, systematic exercises discipline and help to become more balanced.
- More often in the fresh air. Adequate amount of oxygen is required for normal brain function. Especially good for the nervous system affect hiking in the woods, vacation at sea, by the lake, where the air is clean and fresh.
Preparations
If even after the above methods you can not get rid of the constant anxiety, then perhaps you should consult a doctor. Many mental illnesses are successfully treated at home with medications. However, in order for the therapy to be as effective as possible, they should be selected together with the doctor.
You can independently take:
- "Persen";
- "Adaptol";
- Afobazol;
- "Valocordin";
- "Barbovala".
Before use, be sure to read the instructions. Remember that many drugs in addition to sedative, have a hypnotic effect. Therefore, it is best to drink them before bedtime.
In addition to drugs, you can drink herbs. Traditional healers know how not to be nervous for any reason. Thrice a day, brew tea from valerian roots and lemon balm leaves (or mint) in the proportion of 1 teaspoon of dry mix per liter of boiling water. This remedy calms nerves very well.
So, how to stop being nervous? First of all, you need not sit back. Start working on yourself, listen to the advice, and you will definitely succeed. Successes!