Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer Series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your anxiety.

When anxiety is overwhelming your mind, one of the first things you probably want to do is escape. But you know you can't escape from yourself and you can't run away from the contents of your own head, no matter how strong

the desire to do so. Since we can't escape from our minds the next best thing we can do

is use distraction or diversion to take our minds away from the anxious thoughts that

are causing us physical and emotional suffering.

There are two ways of doing this.

One is a temporary diversion, and the other is a deeper form of diversion

that can help you calm the underlying nature of your anxiety.

The temporary escape is when you grab your phone and start texting people randomly, or you

want to lose yourself in Facebook or TV or you start playing

angry birds just to do something with your fingers your eyes and your mind other

than having to be tuned into how you're feeling. Sometimes we want so much to escape from anxiety that will

distract ourselves with as many things as we can. You might sit in front of the

TV while texting and scrolling through your friend's Facebook feed all at the same time, flicking from one

to the other, just trying to keep your mind away from anxious thoughts and the horrible physical

sensations that go with them.

While this screen focus diversion may serve as a temporary escape, it won't help you feel better in the long term,

because the nature of this type of diversion is jarring to your nervous system

and it can feed back into your anxiety.

As we've previously discussed, one of the causes of anxiety is an over-stimulated

and over-sensitive nervous system.

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