Being Anxious About An Upcoming Event

When dealing with anxiety that is concerning an upcoming event in your life, there are many ways to reduce your feelings of being anxious like changing your perspective of the situation, learning how to relax and having backup plans. The following are some methods that will help you to tame your anxiety:

Changing your negative self talk: Negative self talk are the negative phrases you use when thinking. Examples of negative self talk may be "I know I won't do well tomorrow" or "I am afraid of losing this job". You must train yourself to use positive self talk or at least neutral rather than negative, this can come by training or by using a method life CBT
Emotions are your choice: Don't get amazed to know that some emotions are just a choice, you just happen to have unwanted emotions because you don't have any other choice. By learning how to provide new choices to your subconscious mind you will end up having more control over yourself and over your emotions.

Having backup plans: After all life is uncertain and there is nothing that is one hundred percent guaranteed. If you were worried about a job interview that may make you either win or lose a job or if you were worried about whether you will be able to do well in your presentation, it may be very useful to have a backup plan.
Having a backup plan won't make you feel that your destiny is tied to that event and so may provide a relief of your anxiety. However, sometimes this method may not be possible for example if you were worried because your wife is going to have a baby,there can be no backup plans in this case.
Is the worst possible situation bearable: Its amazing how sometimes we get anxious and worried about very small events like arriving home 10 minutes late. It's pretty useful to ask yourself here, is the worst situation bearable? What will happen if I arrived late? will it be the end of the world?. Thinking that way will make you feel much less anxious especially in events where the threat is really small.
Using relaxation techniques can help you much to be in control of your emotions, you can consider relaxation the opposite state of anxiety or stress,if you got relaxed you can never be anxious at the same time.
There are many relaxation techniques around that you can easily learn,those techniques will help you to induce relaxation whenever you want to.
Using a technique like NLP reframing to view the situation differently can make your anxiety vanish because you will find that you may be gaining more than what you are losing by looking at the situation from a different prespective, and so you may discover that the positive outcome you may be getting is bigger than the worst that could happen. Reframing in simple words is viewing the positive aspects of the situation rather than the negative ones by changing the frame that you put around the situation.
Didn't you notice that sometimes underlying your anxiety is just fear, yes fear, you may be afraid that your boss will shout at you if you got late,you may be afraid that someone rejects you or you may be afaid to lose a job. In such a case you should dig a little deeper to know what is making you fee afraid and so in turn triggers your anxiety, you should dig a little further in order to be able to locate the source of your fears and to face them rather than being anxious about facing them

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