stand up to anxiety
Do better under stress
- Alexander Technique can teach you how to lower your own stress levels. You can use your AT skills to stop reacting to stressors with self-defeating tensing and holding, which give anxiety a lock on your spirit. AT can help you quiet your reactions and choose healthier behaviors, from moment to moment and over the long term.
AT can offer relief from anxiety
- Alexander Techique can help you manage depression and anxiety. And in combination with other treatment options or alone, AT can help you reduce the scope and duration of mood collapses or anxiety attacks by giving you tools to guide your own thinking productively for self-care. You need to use all the tools at your disposal to combat anxiety effectively.
Depression and anxiety are dangerous
- Anxiety underlies 99% of alcoholics' drinking disorders, and research associates it with depressive disorder over 75% of the time. It can adversely affect the nervous system in micromolecular ways.
- This can increase inflammation, amplify pain and accelerate health problems. And these problems can include high blood pressure and high blood sugar, so anxiety can ultimately lead to poor circulation and organ damage.
- Depression and anxiety can also cause you to restrict your own breathing, so your respiratory functioning can be adversely affected as well.
Engage fully in life
- Consulting your doctor is very important. Your physician may recommend anti-anxiety medication, talk therapy or other types of treatment. Addressing the underlying cause of the problem can be critical, because this will prevent the cascade of negative effects that chronic anxiety can unleash. Chemical imbalance is often key.
- But AT can be an invaluable tool, in addition to medication and other clinical approaches, for managing anxiety and depression.
- AT can help you reclaim your wholeness and integrity. So when anxiety threatens to distort your perspective and disrupt your life, AT can make a real difference for the bett