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how do i slow down an upbeat heart rate from anxiety?
I alwaaays fear that i have a heart condition even though i am pefecttttly healthy ! i always fear that something will happen, in this case, i always feel my pulse. everytime i feel it, it's upbeat. i think it's because of my anxiety. i have BAD anxiety. are there any solutions to calm yourself down or are there any ways to get my mind off of it & to let me know that i am ok and that everything will be okay?
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A practiced mental exercise.
Find some time when you can be alone and get silence. As complete silence as possible.
Sit down somewhere comfortable, preferably somewhere you are sitting upright without back support. Close your eyes, and breathe slow and deep.
Now clear your mind. Try to focus on nothing, breath calmly and just empty your mind to a completely calm and emotionally level state. Feel your heartbeat slow as your body relaxes, and try to hold the calm empty you feel.
Practice this daily. At least once, try to find your calm place and hold it a little longer than the day before. During the day, when stressed, try to find that calm place again.
Anxiety is not an instant phenomenon. Its a building process, you cycle yourself through thought processes while it builds to a level that becomes a panic attack. If you can stop yourself at the beginning, empty yourself out for a few seconds, and essentially reboot you can control and with time and discipline reduce or eliminate alot of anxiety related problems.
What you're doing now is to reason with yourself. You let your mind do what it wants to do, and you try to tell it that everything will be OK. Its your mind, and your body. People ignore or under empahsize the links between body and mind, control of one helps control the other. Through practice you can feel and find that calm spot inside yourself more quickly and easily, and its a good weapon to use against yourself when you're freaking out.
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simply breathe. Take deep breath's, so that oxygen can get into your lungs, and into your blood stream, to calm you down. Take deep breaths, and count them to 10, then start again from one if you need. hope i helped :)
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There are many ways to calm yourself down, when you have the time and inclination to think about it. The problem is, you don't know if it is physical or psychological.
Here are some guidelines. First of all, it never hurts to get a professional opinion. It may actually relieve some of your stress to do that.
Next, come up with a couple of quiet activities (really good down time) that you can accomplish anywhere you are when you are experiencing this type of anxiety. Have you every heard anyone joke about going to their happy place. Yeah, its not a joke. It is a real tool for controling things like anxiety, and I would be happy to talk to you further about that with a few more details. Does your anxiety prevent you from participating in normal activities? Are you very worried all the time about many things, or primarily about your health or just y our heart/pulse? Give me a few examples of when your anxiety is at its worst, so I can see which path to send you down to help you.
Eager for your response.
Dear Susie
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