The Hack Anxiety Toolbox

Anxiety just like every other challenging experience in life is powered by our beliefs. Rather than simply labeling everything as anxiety and working on that, let's peel back some of the layers to our anxiety to see what really gives it its strength. The more we expose it, the more vulnerable the anxiety becomes to being overcome.

No matter how dreadful our lives may seem right now, especially when our anxiety is active, we've all had wonderful moments in our life thus far. Not only were these moments wonderful to go through when we first experienced them but they're also an incredibly powerful tool in changing the way we look at anxiety and our experience with it.

While anxiety is likely our biggest obstacle in life right now, it certainly isn't our only one. Let's pull our attention to some of our other challenges in life to see what can be done about them. Chances are that they are far more approachable than our anxiety is, and our willingness to do so will also help to make anxiety that much less fearsome.

We all have role models in life and people that we idolize. Most of us even believe that if we were able to embody what they seemingly do, we'd not only be happier but far less prone to anxiety. Let's breakdown what we admire in others and find it within ourselves.

For our first official tool for overcoming anxiety when it strikes, we are going to call on something we are all very easily capable of. That something is being grateful. Let's find out how we can use gratitude to break down an anxiety attack re-give ourselves control over our experience.

For our second anxiety conquering tool we are going to empower ourselves to fully dictate our own experience and surroundings when anxiety strikes. Saying "no" is a powerful stance that many of us struggle to deliver. Let's find out how we can better embrace it and how to use it effectively to overcome anxiety.

Rather than fearing anxiety and wanting it dead, with this tool we are going to let it embrace its status as a villain in our lives. We're going to give anxiety the attention and platform that it seemingly craves and see just how fickle its stance really is. Let's start calling out the bullshit that our anxiety has made seem so scary to this point.

Anxiety is certainly not a laughing matter, but it's also not as serious as it makes itself out to be. It's time to do a little pleasant reminiscing to create a powerful tool that we can all call upon and refer to readily at any point that anxiety decides to strike.

The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) has been used to conquer a number of ailments and challenges in life. I used it regularly when struggling with anxiety and want to share with you how I specifically used it, to help you embrace its power as well. Let's start tapping the anxiety right out of us when it's active within us.

Our words carry a lot of power. That is just as true when dealing with anxiety. It's time we harness the power of our words to rewire our perception towards anxiety and to instead step into the strength that we all know we are capable of.

This tool is particularly powerful for those of us who have a difficult time staying still when anxiety is active within us. It's for those instances when anxiety manages to hijack our ability to sleep or even remain within a space that we otherwise need to be within. Let's find out how we can best overcome this form of anxiety to make this tool readily available to us should this form of anxiety ever strike.

It may seem completely unrelated but one of the strongest antidotes against anxiety is genuine self-love. Self-love however, just happens to be one of the toughest things for most of us to feel. Let's see how we can more easily embody this state of being to keep a kryptonite of anxiety always on hand.

The first key to building a state of being where we are far less prone to anxiety, is to look at what currently makes up our daily life. It's not about dropping responsibility or running from our current way of being, it's about finding ways to make more time for what we are passionate about. Let's start our journey to an anxiety-free long-term experience by assessing and addressing our daily life.

No matter how you tend to experience anxiety it always occurs within our bodies. Let's take some time to look at our physical body to assess what it is trying to tell us and to empower ourselves to take action on it.

Whether or not you consider yourself an organized person, we all create 'To Do' lists. They help to keep us on task and prevent us from forgetting important things. But could 'To Do' lists actually be doing more harm than good to us? And could they actually be contributing to our anxiety? Let's find out how we can continue to use them, but add to them to make them into a tool to overcome anxiety rather than contribute to it.

It's time to get excited about anxiety! Yes, this may sound completely crazy, but it's definitely possible, and for me it was the KO punch in creating an anxiety-free life.