 Hello, love bugs and welcome back to my YouTube channel If you're new here, I'm Sarah and I help teach people how to find inner happiness through fitness and spirituality and today we're gonna talk about anxiety because I feel that it's something that so many of us I mean Like 99% of us go through even if it's less or more chronic and especially in the last two years with everything going on With this virus on top of our every day. Just stress inducers So I wanted to sit down here and talk with you guys about how to reduce your anxiety How to kind of get rid of it and how to just relax and feel better within your own body So anxiety often stems from us either thinking about the future thinking about the past and in general just our thoughts just overtaking us and sometimes we get into the spiral and it just feels like it can't stop and you've thought it's coming from all these Different directions and you just can't stop and you almost feel like you don't have control So the main thing we want to do here is slow our mind down slow our thoughts down and Simultaneously, we want to ground ourselves and feel good in this present moment. So How do you know if you're not feeling grounded or if you're feeling anxious? You know, it's very different for everyone and it can come at all different times of the day So for me, it's when I kind of feel like I'm on autopilot that I'm kind of just going through the motions that I'm not having a lot of highs or lows or Really just I don't even know how to explain it. Just really feeling like like really feeling mundane really not getting Excited or happy or feeling positive and it's when I feel very Disconnected disconnected from myself Disconnected from others and just kind of disconnected from life and for me If I'm feeling that way in general like if I've been feeling that way for a week or a month or whatever There's two things two things that I know that I've learned Always make me feel better always reduce my anxiety always just give me more peace and that is sitting longer in prayer and Meditation when I feel connected to God or For you if it's God or a universe source, whatever I feel very scattered and just not in my body not in myself And so when I sit in prayer and I sit in meditation, I connect more with God I connect more with myself and I'm just more in the present moment So if you're more in the present moment You can't be anxious because you're not freaking out about the past. You're not worrying about the future You're just here now So those are the two biggest things I would say that if you're feeling anxious in a general sense not necessarily in this moment, but in general Sit in meditation whether it's two minutes. I did a five-minute one last night and felt so much better and Pray or you know be grateful. Thank the universe. Thank God for what you have and just kind of go from there And a lot of times we feel the most anxious right in the morning like right when we wake up And when we're trying to go to bed and you I'm sure you've been there when you wake up in the morning And all of a sudden your thoughts start racing and you're like I have to do this day I have to do that today. I did it like I oh, what's my list today? Oh, I have to do this And oh my gosh, how am I gonna get this done and I'm tucking my phone. I'm reading through social media You're getting anxious about that So my biggest tip for you in the morning Before you do anything before you check your phone before your feet hit the floor lay there and Either in your mind or out loud Think of three things you're grateful for and this could be anything it doesn't have to be something huge It could be a person in your life. It could be waking up. It could be oh, I'm so grateful that it's sunny out today I'm so grateful for this air that I'm breathing. I'm so grateful for you know the clean water I have to drink, you know, it can literally be anything a lot of times I end up doing is I recollect kind of what my day was like before and I'm like, okay Well, I was really grateful for this moment with this person or I was really grateful for the hot bath I took last night or I was really grateful for that workout or whatever and this Automatically will reduce your anxiety and set you up in a more positive note For the rest of your day now years ago. I mean we're talking Seven or eight years ago. I was feeling so anxious all the time that I actually was prescribed to Xanax and I Didn't like the way that it made me feel. I didn't like the fact that I was on a medication It wasn't something that I took every single day But it was like an as needed thing and as I've gone through this self-development and spiritual journey something that I truly believe is that Not always but often medications more of like a band-aid. It's more of something that You put over the wound you use to cover up the anxiety or the stress or whatever it is that you're doing And it's not actually taking care of the root problem And so I took it on and off for a few months maybe up to a year I honestly can't remember it was so long ago and I was kind of just like I don't want to do this anymore And so I was trying all these different things especially at nighttime like I have always had issues sleeping at night And I know so many of us lay there I talked to so many people and they just we lay there and our mind just goes and we can't sleep And then if you're like me you get anxious about the fact that you can't sleep Which just spirals and makes it out of control and you just like can't stop And so what I would do what many people I know do is They take a medication or they drink alcohol or they smoke weed or they do something That aids them in going to sleep instead of again actually dealing with the root issue And a lot of this led me to trying more you know natural things to go to sleep such as melatonin But then you're not supposed to take that too often and it's just honestly It's been a struggle of my entire life I remember being like six or seven years old and laying in bed before school and not being able to sleep and like Freaking out because I was like oh my god. I can't fall asleep. I'm not gonna be awake tomorrow I'm gonna fall asleep in class and do that and then like you just drive yourself Freaking crazy and if you do feel like you need to take something that's okay You know, that's okay as long as you're being careful about it It's not something you're doing every night But what I personally found and what I think would benefit you a lot is getting away from those unnatural products such as the Xanax I was taking and getting more involved in Natural products natural things that are made to relax you that work well with your body and aren't changing the chemicals in your body And that's kind of what led me to start dabbling into CBD products and things like that because as a lot Of you know CBD and CBG are not psychoactive ingredients They don't alter the state of your mind, but they do relax you CBD is mostly known for its ability to calm you to relax you to reduce anxiety to reduce pain to calm your mental state and CBG is another non psychoactive Component the kind of more so Regulates our mood so instead of feeling like you're feeling all these emotions and scatter brain in here and there it kind of just Puts it all in one and relaxes you and regulates you and so I want to thank today's sponsor pro canna For this video and I want to show you guys just two products that I've been using a lot the past few weeks That might help you it might not kind of depends on what you know you're looking for but the one I've been using the most Is this product right here? 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So the thing is is When we're trying to reduce anxiety, there's no like one size fits all for everyone So what you want to do or what I've done is I've actually made a list Try to make a list of like, I don't know five to ten things that make you happy that make you feel good That just make you feel positive some of mine are Making YouTube videos Dancing playing games. I love doing crafts. It's something I wish I did more now going with my little kitty Drinking hot tea taking a bath Journaling a lot of times. I really like to sit down and just listen to some relaxing piano music or even if I'm in the car sometimes I'll put something like that on like some light jazz and Just kind of like relax into those sounds And so if you're feeling anxious what you can do is you go back to this list that you have I keep mine in my phone I also have written down in my journal and I'll go through it and I'll be like, you know What what's your intuition? Like what is your heart telling you that you want to do? What's something that's gonna make you happy or feel at least decent in the moment and you go through your little list And you pick want something out pick two things out and do that and get lost in them be in the moment Enjoy the cuddling with your cat or your dog or your child Enjoy the little coloring book that you purchase, you know enjoy a hot bath or a hot tea by the fire and Before you know it you will be more in the present moment You will be more in your body You will feel more connected to yourself and your anxiety will be gone and if it's not gone It'll at least be reduced so I totally understand. I think that So many of us feel so anxious So often and it's something that's really hard to deal with and it's not something that you can do one time I'm like, oh, okay I'm never gonna be anxious again because life is always going to throw these things at us So I just wanted to give you guys a little toolkit a few different things I do in the morning and the evening throughout the day little helper sometimes and Hope that at least one of these things resonate with you so that you can do that and live a less anxious and less Stressful life. I love you guys so much Don't forget to like this video if it helped you and subscribe if you haven't already and don't forget be limblessly yourself