People With Anxiety Disorders

Everyone experiences anxiety, not just people with anxiety disorders. Anxiety is a feeling of worry or nervousness that is unpleasant. Every person experiences anxiety differently and people get it much worse than others. Since anxiety is such a common feeling that humans feel there has been research done to help ones that are feeling this way. A little anxiety is normal and signals danger, but too much anxiety can lead to problems with the body and possibly death.

One may get anxiety when they are about to give a speech, one may when they are in a crowded area, or maybe it could happen to one every morning when they wake up, or even when they are reminded of their childhood. Anxiety is when a….. It can really affect people’s lives and make

daily activities difficult. Anxiety is a common reaction to stress. Anxiety is a sense of fear and apprehension that results in a state of awareness. Unluckily, when one experiences too much anxiety it is not healthy and can make one too anxious. When this happens one’s body is always in fight or flight response and our bodies physically and emotionally have negative effects that seem uncontrollable. This is very scary actions and can really reflect on one’s life.
Anxiety can be prompted because of stress having to do with family history of mental health conditions, personality factors, stressful events, physical health problems, substance abuse, and whatever seems triggering or makes a person anxious.( Annu Rev Clin Psychol, 2008) Anxiety can feel like butterflies in the stomach or it can be more extreme causing “sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, a choking sensation, chest pain, nausea, dizziness, fear of losing your mind, fear of dying, flushing, feeling that danger is nearby, a racing heart (heart palpitations), and feeling an intense need to escape.” (Vann, 2014) Which is the characteristics of an anxiety attack.

When anxieties gets so extreme one feels as if they have no control over their body. It is a scary

happening.
Negative thoughts produce anxiety and release toxins into the body and positive thoughts release positive chemicals into the body so the key is to eliminate negative thoughts and produce positive thoughts, which is easier said than done. Luckily there are ways that help to deal with anxiety. A successful and popular way to eliminate anxiety is meditation. Anxiety is racing thoughts meditation quiets the overactive mind. Meditation is relaxation through psychological or bodily exercise and is done in many forms. It releases tension and makes one feel relieved and satisfied. When one is battling with anxiety they can take a minute and remove themselves from the anxious moment and meditate. Performing meditation when feeling stressed in helpful, but it is recommended that people practice it daily.
There are steps and techniques to the actual meditation process. “It involves concentrating on a simple image or sound while in a comfortable place away from distractions. It can also involve cultivating an open awareness or a more loving attitude toward yourself and others.” (Stress; Treatment, 2005)To get the satisfying outcome while meditating it is important to be in a quiet place. One should be in a comfortable position. It is important while meditating to have an object to dwell on and concentrate on. Going into the exercise it is also key to have a passive attitude. What is happening during the exercise is the mind is quieting and relaxing and one is focusing on one thing. It is calming a busy mind. Meditating can be difficult at first and hard to get used to. It is important that when your thoughts are about to wonder to bring your mind back to focusing mainly on your breaths. The point of mindfulness meditation is not to make our minds blank slates, but rather to accept everything as it is.
It is vital to have a purpose while meditating. You have to know why you are doing the exercise and what is behind the desire? Understand what is so painful in your life that is driving you to meditate? Know that what you are actually disturbed by because it is easier to deal with stress when you know what you are actually anxious about. One should keep in mind what they wants to achieve.
There are many approaches to meditation.

There are many methods online, in books, on the television, and in magazines. It is important to pick the right one for you, the right one that makes you feel good and fits your schedule. Focusing on your breath and body is so important even while not meditating and even while doing daily activities. Meditating can seem time consuming and an annoyance. Make time for the 10, 20, 30 minutes because it will be worth it once it becomes a routine and hard to live without. The more one does it, the more the body gets use to the exercise and you get to know yourself. It is free medicine, why not take the

time?
Meditation is able to regulate mood and this is proven in over 20 randomized controlled studies taken from PubMed, PsycInfo, and the Cochrane Databases. In The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. The results in the study “support the safety and potential efficacy of meditative practices for treating certain illnesses, particularly in nonpsychotic mood and anxiety disorders. Clear and reproducible evidence supporting efficacy from large, methodologically sound studies is lacking.” (Arias, 2006)
Panic attack are not fun. They are very scary and one feels as if they have no control over their body. Meditation helps reduce symptoms of someone with a panic disorder. In a research published in the American Journal of Psychiatry the results were that 20 of the 22 patients diagnosed with anxiety disorders had reduced substantially after 3 months of meditation and relaxation training. (Am J Psychiatry, 2006) The two test that will be researched agree with the topic stating that meditation helps with anxiety.
The variable that will be studied in the experiment is the level of anxiety and the meditation exercise. Anxiety is the problem and meditation is what is helping the problem. The independent variable will be the mediation process and the independent variable is the anxiety level. The participants will be tested before on their anxiety level and then they will mediate and then they take the same test after. Expectedly, the test results will produce less anxiety in the participants. Hopefully, the patients are more calm and relaxed after the meditation and do not feel so anxious.