Tips For Eliminating Anxiety

• Eat Clean and Cut the Panic
• Meditation and guided visualization
• Splash cold water

Eat Clean and Cut the Panic 

Healthy meals are key to cutting back on anxiety when unpleasant circumstances crop up at work. Easy snacks such as French fries and Ice cream might help you get through a long shift but will not help in keeping the stress away. Food items such as avocados, almonds, and broccoli, are renowned for Omega-3 fatty acids, folic acid and vitamin B6, vitamin C as well as magnesium. Incorporating these nutrients into your daily diet will help regulate your blood pressure and manage cortisol levels. With improved nutrition you will be better placed to handle stress and while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Meditation and guided visualisation

Another tool that is being used by nurses these days is guided visualization or meditation to relieve stress. Guided visualization works together with meditation and theoretically they stem from the same thinking. Through guided visualisation, you imagine a picture or a situation that is positive which counteracts the negativity in your thoughts that brings on the anxiety.  The relief in meditation comes when what you focus on long enough takes up your attention. Thereby your attention is shifted elsewhere rather than focusing on the tension which causes the anxiety.

Splash Cold water 

Splashing cold water on the face is an old home remedy to calm the nerves but it does the trick. The thinking is that the cold water splashed on the face creates a shock effect with a sense of relief to nerves that are stressed and tensed.