Stress And Anxiety

Anxiety disorder generalized symptom sufferers know what its like to face monsters. They face them every day when they face each anxiety disorder generalized symptom that limits their lives.

An anxiety disorder generalized symptom is a symptom that results from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). GAD is a far too common condition that plagues many people.

Characterized by excessive anxiety and worry that are disproportionate to the actual event or circumstances in a persons life, GAD can be a crippling disorder. People with GAD find their lives taken over by fear and worry.

When an anxiety disorder generalized symptom begins to run you life, you have lost your power. These symptoms can include:

--Irritability

--Muscle tension -- shakiness, headaches

--Excessive sweating, palpitations, shortness of breath, and various gastrointestinal symptoms

--Restlessness or feeling keyed up or "on the edge"

--Being easily fatigued

--Difficulty concentrating

--Sleep disturbances (difficulty falling or staying asleep; or restless, unsatisfying sleep)

Anxiety is one of the five main misery monsters that keep people leashed to suffering. If you want to live unleashed from old patterns of negative behavior or pain like that caused by an anxiety disorder generalized symptom, you must find a way to slay your monster.

When you suffer from an anxiety disorder generalized symptom, youve allowed your thoughts to create an unreality in your reality. In other words, instead of focusing on whats going right in your life, youre focusing on whats going wrong.

Western Medicine often treats GAD with sedative-type medications. Anti-depressants are also used for GAD. Some treatment also includes the use of antihistamines, which have a side-effect of reducing anxiety.

Although severe cases of anxiety may require medication, it is far preferable to slay this particular misery monster with the use of your mind.

Your mind is the most powerful healing tool you have. To get your mind to work for you instead of against you (because when youre worrying excessively, your mind is working against you), you must take these four steps:

1. Become aware of your thoughts. Begin to monitor the way your mind works. Really notice how you allow yourself to spin out worse-case scenarios.

2. Every time you catch your mind creating a worry thought, stop, and say, Cancel that.

3. Do at least one complete cycle of a 1-4-2 breathe. A 1-4-2 breathe is breathing in through your nose for a specified count, holding the breath for 4 times the original breathing in count, and breathing out through your mouth for 2 times the original breathing in count. So if you breathe in to a count of 4, youll hold it for 16 and breathe out to a count of 8.

4. Consciously replace your worry thought with a thought about what you WANT to have instead of what youre afraid of having.

These steps may sound simple, but dont be fooled. Theyre incredibly powerful. If youll follow these four steps, you can remove any anxiety disorder generalized symptom.

Find out how to turn your problems into power. Get a free report on how to create outstanding results in your life at http://www.miseryslayer.com Ande Waggener, J.D., is an author and a motivational speaker who shows people how to remove misery from their lives.