Do you know the feeling of living with anxiety?
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is a problem that puts many limitations on our lives.
Anxiety is the physical state that results from fearful thoughts and limiting beliefs about your future. When you think these fearful thoughts, your physical body undergoes many fight or flight reactions which is in preparation for escaping a danger that threatens your life.
Maintaining a state of anxiety takes a lot of physical energy.
So much energy is used up that you don’t have very much left for experiencing happiness, movement, creative expression, fun and play, love or even sex .
Solution for Anxiety
That brings me to the solution that I’ve found to work great for anxiety. I named it SALT. The letters stand for…
Stop
Ask
Listen
Tap
Here is how it works.
First you Stop
When we’re feeling anxious, we do not stop. Instead of stopping, we have a tendency to try to run from the fear.
This first step is simple. Just stop what you’re doing.
Ask
Then ask yourself any of the following questions.
What is scaring me? What’s the cause of this anxiety? What are the thoughts I’m having? What thoughts are under this? What beliefs are causing this anxiety?Â
Listen to Your Answers
Now listen to what your mind answers. The answers may be surprising.
Do not discount or argue with the responses. What you hear may be immature, petty or seem silly to you. You are getting to know the nature of the human mind. And with awareness comes power.
If you write them down you’ll more easily remember them and it seems to have a calming effect. That whiney childish part wants to be heard too!
You will probably be feeling much better already. But doing the last step will help to reverse your anxiety for good and establish new healthier patterns.
Step Four:Â Tap
As the last step, you do EFT tapping. For tapping statements, you use what you heard in the Listening step. You say your answers aloud while doing tapping therapy. Say one statement at each tapping point.
Is EFT tapping foreign to you? Click here for a free EFT manual.
So next time you’re feeling anxious – just add a little SALT!
