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Fear, anxiety and uncertainty. Symptoms and remedies to deal with them

You may have experienced a strange feeling of anxiety when you are particularly stressed or find yourself in a situation of fear or conflicting emotions.
Anxiety can promote sweating, panic attacks, unmanageability of situations leading you to not be rational and make inappropriate choices.
Faced with these extreme situations, there are methods to prevent or deal with them in order to regain lost calm and find an inner balance.
As not only the body must feel good but also the mind to be able to face the daily vicissitudes related to individual and relational life.

Anxiety: what are the alarming signs

If you want to understand if you are suffering from anxiety, you have to check if among the symptoms that force you there are tachycardia, shortness of breath, tremor, digestive problems, visual and hearing difficulties or all symptoms that portend a more or less intense anxiety attack.
Anxiety is also accompanied by compulsive and obsessive behaviors in its most acute phases as well as a craving for control and persecutory attitudes.
The resulting sense of discomfort not only causes a limit to your ability to understand and want but becomes physiological, leading to health problems including gastritis, migraines, respiratory problems.

Anxiety: what to do if you are in a situation of fear and anxiety

There are several remedies to prevent or deal with natural anxiety or fear crises that you can safely follow at home with no great means available.

Here are some examples:

Breathing exercises

It is an established method, breathing allows you to regain control and psycho-physical balance.
When you feel nervous or think you are getting anxious, take slow breaths, inhale and exhale regularly and then move on to fuller, deeper breaths.
This way you are controlling your body.
The passage of air in the body allows you to hyperventilate and decrease the symptoms of anxiety such as acceleration of the heartbeat and sweating.

Hot bath

Another method that you can use from the comfort of your home when anxiety or fear takes hold of your body is to take a hot bath.
The heat of the water allows you to relax your muscles and nerves and helps you relax, perhaps opting for relaxing beauty routine products.

Massage

You can try to find the lost peace with a good massage to do at home or at a dedicated center, the massage like the hot bath allows you to relax the muscles.

Yoga or stretching

Physical activity helps you to regain lost psycho well-being, in particular yoga and stretching thanks to stretching exercises allow you to reduce the effects of muscle contractures, furthermore the breathing exercises connected to them help to regain lost balance.

Herbal Teas

Before going to sleep or when needed, you can decide to use relaxing herbal teas perhaps with lemon balm or with a hint of melatonin that can help you sleep and relax your muscles.
These are non-chemical solutions without contraindications that do not cause addiction.