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Activities for Anxiety Relief
Alright so you found some sensory items, or used a sensory activity to decrease how anxious you feel in the moment --- but it may not work ALL the time, and you forget - cause you're already feeling anxious, and your thinking brain is turned off.
Time for activities!!!!
Before you stop reading, lol, I'm talking about activities, not activities ..........let me explain.
So we each have a set of activities that we do, which our brains interpret as "feel good" things
- this could be as simple as closing your eyes, and as intense as going to work out for 2 hours.
Think about it ........when DON'T you feel anxious??
For some of us, it's watching television; for others it is reading a book; and for others it's writing.
Some of us make or play music.
Some of us like to craft or draw.
A few of us enjoy working wit our hands.
Whatever it is, the specific activity we do, immediately takes us away from our worries, our fears, our sense of danger/threat.
Okay, so you see the connection?? Yes? No?
You see, having these kinds of activities, on a regular frequency, allows you to diffuse some of that anxious energy -- meaning, when you do these activities, you experience a "good feeling".
This "good feeling" is like a vacation for your anxious mind.
It helps to increase the "feel good" chemicals, which helps the "alarm center" chill out!!!
So the more you do these activities, the more your brain gets a vacation, the less anxious you feel, because you are "releasing" the anxiety.
Think of it like a boiling tea kettle - if you don't "vent it", it will boil over. But if you do have a vent for the tea kettle, the steam gets released. It's still hot tea, true, but it's not boiling over.
Use the worksheets below to identify what your "missing" calming activities are.
Then find a way to do them, at least once per day!!
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