5 Psychological Tricks to Decrease Anxiety in Your Daily Life
<p>Personally, I understand why that is. There are so many factors allowing anxiety to take over people’s minds and how they are living their lives.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/lucasgreenwell/depression-anxiety-stress-scales-responses?resource=download" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>In this survey</em></a> containing around 40,000 responses, nearly 30,000 people experience stress or anxiety in social situations.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/lucasgreenwell/depression-anxiety-stress-scales-responses?resource=download" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Image generated using CHAT-GPT-4.</a></p>
<p>The same people seem to feel nervous and have fears or panic in social situations — <strong>that’s not good.</strong></p>
<p>Over the past couple of years, I’ve been struggling with anxiety and panic myself, and in this article, I’ll share 5 psychological tricks to decrease anxiety in your daily life.</p>
<h1>1 — Battle your negative thoughts</h1>
<p><strong>Negative thoughts flow like water.</strong> Once they start you can’t end them.</p>
<p>Your mind and thoughts work like one-way traffic, so you need to put positivity inside your brain. Start thinking about the good things, the things you want to achieve.</p>
<p>Do anything you can to get your negative thoughts <strong>out!</strong></p>
<p>Often, your negative thoughts aren’t based on any real-life fears but only in your head.</p>
<p>Upon realizing this, strive to replace these baseless, negative thoughts with ones that are not only more grounded in reality but also imbued with positivity.</p>
<p><em>For instance, if you’re worried about an upcoming presentation at work, rather than imagining the embarrassment of messing up, visualize yourself delivering a successful and well-received talk.</em></p>
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