Natural Anxiety Remedies

Anxiety is a disease through which each of us experiences some day or the other in our life. Upto certain extent it is acceptable and does not cause severe problems. But if it becomes extreme in one’s life then he needs to pay serious attention towards it. An individual who goes through the feeling of nervousness or anxiety in his life without any reason is considered to be suffering from generalized anxiety disorder. The consequences of this disorder are very dangerous. It completely damages the self confidence of an individual and creates problem in other social activities. Hence, if you are suffering from anxiety, here are some of the natural remedies for anxiety. Have a look at them:

* Massage Therapy: Scientific studies have proven that massage therapy is a very efficient natural method to tackle with anxiety. Apart as a natural remedy for anxiety it also serves various purposes. It regulates the circulation of oxygenated blood in the body, relieves pain in muscles and joints. Stroking and kneading are the dominant massage therapy steps. They relieves the pressure in  certain hormones which mainly cause anxiety. Hence, you should try it out.

* Meditation: Some specialists consider meditation as the most efficient natural remedies for anxiety. Meditation is also a convenient way to get over anxiety. One can practice it any where and at any time. However, it is recommended to practice it in fresh air. Meditation mainly increases the focusing power of an individual and does not allow his or her mind to deviate in different places, which eventually helps one to get over anxiety.

* Modifications in one’s diet: Certain modification in an individual diet also helps one to get over anxiety. Green tea is considered as the best natural remedies for anxiety. Green tea provides one with the feeling of relaxation. It has been proven by scientific means that green tea helps in anxiety. Apart from green tea, various other eatables like: almonds, baking soda, oil, onion, orange juice and things like these helps in treating anxiety. So, you should start consuming these things today only.

* Panic Attack Relief: It is another natural remedy for anxiety. This therapy has been practiced on many people and until now we have got success in curing anxiety. This therapy also doesn’t have any kind of side effect. Hence, it is a reliable way to get over anxiety. This therapy was used by our predecessor and from then on it is found one of the natural remedies of anxiety. However, it is recommended to consult your doctor before practicing it.

* Treatment through Exercises: Recently, it has been revealed that Exercises is also one of the natural remedies for anxiety. Regular exercising for just half an hour is enough to treat anxiety. It will also keep you fit and fine and bring the feeling of refreshment in your body.

These are just some of the natural remedies for anxiety. If you are suffering from it, just try it out.

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Passiflora complex is perhaps one of the least known about, yet most effective natural anxiety remedies. You might know this plant better as the ‘Passion Flower’, which is a climber native to South America but easily grown in Europe too.

Passiflora works for reducing anxiety specifically by binding itself to benzodiazepine receptors in the brain and automatically calming us down. There is a risk of addiction to passiflora complex as there is with man made benzodiazepine drugs, yet because passiflora is completely natural, being addicted to it is not harmful at all. It can make you feel drowsy but this often means it’s simply working well to relieve anxiety and users should choose whether they’d prefer to feel drowsy when they take it, or anxious when they don’t. Perhaps only taking this natural anxiety remedy when you know you don’t need to drive or work would be a good idea.

As well as being one of the most effective natural anxiety remedies, passiflora complex can work against depression associated with anxiety and also the exhaustion that so many of us feel after a whole day of being anxious. For anyone suffering from anxiety who is really considering prescription medication I would recommend trying passiflora complex first. According to reports it can often take the edge off anxiety and depression enough so that you can seek cognitive behavioural therapy and the courage to get to the route of your problem without risking side effects from synthetic drugs.

If you or anyone you know has tried passiflora complex, which can be bought from most health food stores, please leave a comment telling us of your experience. It seems that this is a relatively unknown natural anxiety remedy and it’s certainly one we’d like to investigate further. What does it taste like? How long does it take to work? You tell us, we’d love to know!

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Did you know that eating foods containing oats can be great natural anxiety remedies? Neither did I, until my Mum bought home a herb guide leaflet from our local health food store.

Also known as ‘Avena Sativa’, oats have lots of medicinal properties, including being anti-inflammatory and helping skin conditions like eczema and hives. Additionally they have been used to help bad nerves for centuries, as well as helping you deal with stress, easing depression, giving up alcohol or drugs and calming hyperactive children.

You may already know that vitamin B is a great natural anxiety remedy because it helps to repair and protect the central and peripheral nervous systems. Oats are high in vitamin B, so they’re especially good for people suffering from stress, anxiety, depression, withdrawal, exhaustion and hyperactivity. You could simply start the day off with a bowl of porridge, or if that’s not to your tastes, eat a piece of flapjack as a snack before lunch.

For those who really don’t like the taste or texture of oats, there are still some natural anxiety remedies that contain avena sativa that you can use and they are smoothies. Simply put a tablespoon of oats into a smoothie maker/blender, add half a banana, a cup of milk, a few drops of lemon and a teaspoon of honey and blend them together. Add some ice cubes to make it deliciously cold and you won’t be able to taste the oats at all.

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We’ve said before that in order to find the right natural anxiety remedies it’s a good idea to determine the cause of your anxiety and the type of anxiety you suffer from. This can be easier said than done if you’re not sure if it’s your behaviour and thought processes causing the physiological reaction, or it’s a physiological reaction causing your thoughts and behaviour.

Scientific research tells us that it is thoughts and behaviour that cause anxiety and faulty negative thinking leads our bodies to perceive a threat that isn’t there. So where do we go from there? If you know exactly what your faulty thought processes are then you should start working to eradicate them. This might involve counseling or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Perhaps you’d prefer to explore your memories through hypnotherapy if you believe there’s something you’ve repressed, or you’d like to see if herbal remedies will help you to calmly approach certain subjects that stress you out.

One thing is for sure, you should always do research into each of the natural anxiety remedies before you begin using one of them. The key to beating anxiety is doing it yourself and if you don’t feel like pursuing a certain avenue is going to work then don’t do it. Although you must’ve confuse this feeling with fear! A lot of people who go through CBT to overcome phobias will complain that they ‘don’t see the point’ in facing their fear head on because it only makes them more nervous. Bear in mind that this is exactly the point of this kind of therapy and it’s often the quickest, most effective method.

Start your journey to overcoming anxiety by writing out 5 goals to complete. The first could be something very small that you want to achieve in the next hour. The second within the next day, the third within the next week, the fourth within the next month and the fifth a ‘big one’ that you want to complete within the next year. When you’ve completed one goal feel free to replace it with something else, but keep a note alongside each new list of the goals you’ve completed so far. You might find this an addictive process, as you build your confidence through beating anxiety. Look back at your list in one month and feel proud of everything you’ve done so far. You can carry on giving yourself this pat on the back perpetually if you like. Add natural anxiety remedies to your list and see where you get in two months. I’m pretty sure the results will be profound.

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When I first started suffering from anxiety I’d never thought of linking another part of my life with it. A couple of years previously I had been very interested in meditation; I bought crystals, stones, books and tapes to help me out, but my life got too busy and I had no time left to practice any more. Then I began therapy and my counselor suggested that I start again.

I was nervous about going back into the world of meditation when I was feeling so low, but thought that it cant do any harm and it’s certainly a great natural remedy for anxiety. That’s when I came across Lilou Mace’s 4 minute meditation on YouTube. From that, coupled with a meditation exercise I found in a self-help book I created my very own meditation session…

Close your eyes and find yourself in a garden. There are tall trees and a blanket of bluebells on the ground. Sit on a rock bathed in sunlight and tense the muscles in your feet for 4 seconds, whilst breathing in. When you reach the top of your breath, breathe out for 5 and relax your muscles again. Repeat this, moving all the way up your body, from legs, to the abdomen, arms, shoulders and face. When you’ve finished take a breath and look around the garden. On your right there’s a door in the hedge. You push it; it’s very heavy but swings open to reveal you are standing on a cliff. There are railings around the cliff and a gate, leading to some steps. Open the gate and as you start to walk down the steps you can feel yourself sinking lower and your mind relaxing. Each step will be different, 5: you can see clouds all around you, 4: you’re walking down through the clouds and feeling more relaxed, 3: as you come through the clouds everything feels humid, but calm and you can see a huge lake at the bottom of the steps, 2: your feet feel wet as the steps get lower 1: you feel light as you slip into the warm, crystal clear lake water. Take a moment to swim about, float and enjoy the sounds and smells. Think about what it is that you want to gain from this. Set a goal, no matter how small and wrap it up in a bubble on the surface of the water. Spend time making it strong and when you’re ready, send it out into the distance. The lake will carry it. Climb out of the water and climb up the steps, getting more alert as you come through the clouds and reach the top. Come back through the garden and sit on the rock. Open your eyes.

Phew! It’s perhaps a bit cheesy for some of you, or too focused on the visual for others, but it works for me. Take a look around at free meditation videos, read books and talk to other people who meditate. Chances are, without realising, you will create your own idea of what meditation will be and you can use it as a natural remedy for anxiety.

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It’s not the first thing we consider when we realise we have an anxiety disorder, but many people are suffering due to an imbalance in hormones. Quite often women will experience heightened anxiety prior to and during their period, and this is entirely down to hormones which we all know affect our mood. You may be immediately thinking that there isn’t a natural remedy for anxiety, but you would be surprised.

Finding out whether you have a hormonal imbalance that could be causing anxiety is quite easy. You can simply ask your GP or Doctor, or you can order a home swab testing kit that you send away to a laboratory for results. If you do either of these and find you do have an imbalance then don’t just straight on the prescription medication bandwagon.

Generally, gaining hormones or creating a hormonal equilibrium using natural anxiety remedies is far easier than reducing levels of a certain hormone. Those who are low in progesterone can use transdermal progesterone cream; a cream that contains high levels of progesterone that are absorbed through the skin, rather than through synthetic drugs that carry unwanted side-effects.

Even diet can have an effect on hormones. As mentioned in the ‘Changing Lifestyle as Natural Remedy for Anxiety‘ making sure you have lots of omega 3,6 and 9 in your diet can help to regulate hormones that affect our mood. Women may want to take Evening Primrose oil, which balances progesterone and oestrogen and both men and women often benefit from flaxseed supplements, or eating flaxseed which is rich in certain healthy fats. You can find all of these things as your local health food store.

Always remember that you don’t have to choose the prescription medication route, simply because your doctor recommends it or you think it’s the easiest way. These drugs can have negative side effects or be addictive, so before you take the prescription slip to the chemist just take a look online for the possible natural remedies for anxiety and see if you can save yourself a whole lot of bother.

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Something as subtle as changing one of our thought processes can make a huge difference to anxiety and changing our diet and lifestyle can do exactly the same thing. Using food and drink as a natural remedy for anxiety is one of the best ways to deal with the disorder, whilst getting a strong hold of our physical health, too.

Different foods do different things for our brains and there is strong link between Omega 3, 6 and 9 intake and mental disorders such as depressions and anxiety. There are two ways to get omega 3, 6 and 9 – you can eat it in oily fish, nuts, seeds and products that have it added (e.g. some butter and bread) or you can simply take daily supplements (many of which are fantastic natural anxiety remedies) found in your local health food store. Omega 3, 6 and 9 not only help with mental disorders but they reduce inflammation (good for arthritis, eczema and menstrual bloating), balance the hormones and make the skin, nails and hair shiny and healthy.

It’s also important you have a balanced diet, with as little caffeine, alcohol and nicotine as possible. Each of these substances wreak havoc with the mood of an anxiety sufferer, and while people claim a drink ‘calms the nerves’, in the long term it will do the opposite. You might also feel a cigarette calms you down, but compared to a non-smoker your mood levels are all over the place. When you have a cigarette you are calm (because you’ve satisfied your craving) but as time goes on your anxiety rises rapidly, until you have another. A non-smoker has a far steadier mood because the receptors in their brain are not constantly demanding a hit.

A large part of dealing with anxiety via lifestyle is common sense. Drinking 2 litres of coke in one night is going to fill you with caffeine and cause anxiety, but you knew that drinking that much is bad for you anyway. Too much of anything is going to cause problems, whether your mood or your health, so use your lifestyle as an anxiety natural remedy. Eat and drink in moderation and you should start to see a difference.

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