Knowing how to get out of and transform anxious moments is vital for these trying times. Here are five easy anti-anxiety techniques from Melissa Tiers.
BILATERAL SIMULATION
This technique involves stimulating both sides of the brain to stop anxiety. It is absurdly simple yet amazingly effective.
- Grab a ball (or apple or anything you can pass back and forth) and think of something that is causing you some anxiety.
- When you can feel that anxiety somewhere in your body, rate the level of it on a scale of one to ten.
- Now pass the object back and forth, from one hand to the other, crossing the midline, so you are stimulating both hemispheres of the brain. Do this for a minute. Stop. Take a deep breath, and check in. You might note that the anxiety has dissipated.