What are Your Mantras to Get You Through Anxiety, Panic, Stress or Despair?

[Freddie Moran]

Title says it all. Please, Dopers, share your words of wisdom.

 

[Charlievee]

"Combat breathing" or rhythmic breathing if you will. That and the basic understanding that one can't change what is happening, but you can alter how one deals with it.

 

[minden4runner]

Bad things do not happen to me. I happen to bad things!!!

 

[rdruss]

If you believe in God, pray to him, see Philippians 4:6,7 and Hebrews11:6.

 

[JLofa]

Life's a joke so might as well laugh

 

[CajunMikeR]

After spending nearly 4yrs deployed in the Middle East and then doing drug ops in Central & South America, I boiled it down to this...

There's nobody trying to kill me, so it's not that bad.

It all boils down to perspective. What most of us get anxiety over really isn't that bad in the grand scheme of things... but we let our mind trick us into believing it's worse than it is (partly because it's stemming from a part of the brain that deals with survival instinct, usually an overactive flight response). A judicious application of logic & reasoning, rather than clouding things with emotion and fear, taking an almost clinical approach from an outside perspective, is almost always the best way to approach a problem. Learning to separate your emotional side from your intelligence is the hard part, but it can be trained.

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[RichinRidgewood]

“It’s 5 o’clock somewhere”

 

[UpDog]

This, too, will change.

 

[Wild Thing]

"Hell, son, you survived your ex. You can survive anything!"

Works every damn time.
:cheers:

 

[scanny]

Enjoy your life now, everything will be worse tomorrow: )

 

[PC1978]

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[Bassturd]

I ride my mountain bike!! I’ll pick my favorite black line and bomb down it as careless and reckless as possible. If I make it down unscathed all is well!!

 

[Adesanja]

There are tons of ways to calm down! Say, I like jogging or meditating. Recently get a lot of relief thanks to Dutch passion. If you have never met this word combination better google it. I get the products of Dutch passion at herbiesheadshop.

 

[spartacus]

Going out in the wilderness in my 4runners.

 

[elsparkodiablo]

I mostly try to do deep calming breaths. If it's not an emergency I'll use exercise / exertion to try to destress if possible - anything I can turn my mind off for

 

[Lex16161]

For me personally, doing different breathing exercises is very important. I honestly worry a lot about how I feel from time to time. I used to get nervous a lot. But now I try not to do that.

 

[GG5thGen]

Deep breathing for me. Also, try to get politics out of my head.

Watching old movies on TV help me relax.

 

[GarySp]

Some but not all of my fellow veterans will understand this, I came back from Vietnam 50 years ago basically intact and have lived by 2 rules.
Rule one, don't sweat the small stuff
Rule two, it's pretty much all small stuff

 

[Jakeepoo3]

Get away from the causes of the problem sparking sporadically throughout your mind uncontrollably. For example society/the herd, negative energy, social media trash, expectations, materialistic/consumer way of life. Go into the forest or whatever natural isolated areas you have alone and connect with your roots, nature. Do this in a spiritual way with a clear mind.

 

[BettysNephew]

Ooon yellymon.