When seeking to motivate yourself towards anxiety relief, look no farther than your kitchen table. Sound odd? Actually, you'll need to add a pen, notepad and a chair. What you will do is write down all the things you have accomplished, either in your youth, as a teen, as an adult or just last week.
It might help if you can pull out your school records or your old resumes to see where you excelled.
How is this going to motivate you towards anxiety relief?
Lost confidence is a major component of anxiety disorder. That loss affects you in a number of ways. It destroys your self esteem and sense of worth. It triggers doubts and depression. And it can cause you to lose control of your life. This happens because your anxiety has you stuck in a cycle of fear and panic. Your fear paralyses you to the point you can no longer complete tasks that, prior to your anxiety disorder, were never given a second thought.
Before you can enjoy anxiety relief, you have to rebuild your confidence. It will be tough while your anxiety is still active, but it will help you.
When you have completed your list, write down ways you can use those talents now. Don't worry whether or not your ideas make sense. Let your mind revel in the fantasy. Allow yourself to become completely absorbed in your ideas. Don't be logical; be creative.
In case you are not the type to indulge in daydreaming, here's an example.
Let's say your strength is photography. You thoroughly enjoyed it, received high praise for your work, and perhaps got high marks for it in school. Somewhere along the way, you put your camera down and only use it now during special occasions.
Take that skill and turn on the creativity. How can you use your photography skills now? You could: take one subject (let's say, clowns) and photograph every clown you see. Go through catalogues, newspapers, magazines, and online. Put together your best and submit them to one of the stock photo agencies. You could offer to take photos as a volunteer at a local non-profit group or for a sports team. If you also enjoy gardening or looking at gardens, offer to take photos for your local horticultural society.
There are many ways to utilize your skills, either as a photographer or simply as a person with some great creative ideas.
Now, you're probably wondering what all this has to do with anxiety relief and getting motivated.
By allowing yourself to free up your hidden talents and creative mind, you encourage the rebuilding of your confidence. Where confidence exists, anxiety doesn't. This exercise puts you in control of one aspect of our life - your mind. No longer is it left under the control of your anxiety.
The more you indulge yourself in this activity, the less time you will have to think about your anxiety and the fear that goes with it. Continue this exercise every day, take action on your ideas and most importantly, have fun with it. You will soon see that by being self motivated, you can achieve anxiety relief.
Now that you have seen that you can control your thoughts, it's time to find the right natural anxiety remedy for you. Discover how to do that at Natural Anxiety Remedies where you can read product reviews and more tips to help cure your anxiety. Sylvia is an award-winning journalist who has struggled with and overcome depression, panic and anxiety. Formerly the Community Education Manager with the Canadian Mental Health Association, she's written, "A Guide to Teen Depression & Suicide" and "How To Build Confidence and Banish Anxiety Forever".