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DIY Mental Health: Using Hand Gripper for Anxiety Management
This is not
some amazing discovering I chanced upon – keeping your mind, hands and feet
busy is one of the oldest tips from the game called controlling your anxiety
levels. However, it is not often understood. Many folks believe that anxiety
levels can be controlled when you are really busy. When your mind and body are
totally occupied by something that does not leave any room to obsess with
thoughts that take a toll. Anxiety
is something that builds-up in quite, yet-to-be-described and loud ways. One common
factor along these many ways of anxiety symptoms surfacing is that you are in a
state of agitation, somewhat irritated, perhaps a bit angry too and you are
trying to control
the thoughts to overtake your mind. You don’t want an explosion of emotions
at the workplace or when driving during the rush hours. This is when some
people try the easy way out, i.e. taking medicines like Valium, that slow down
the thinking patterns, creating a false sense
of calm.
Using Gripper to Keep a Grip on Daily Life
A better way to handle this negative energy that needs to be
exhausted in some way is doing something right away that occupies the nervous
system. Essentially, get yourself moving. Now, at the work-desk, at the office
or when commuting in public transit, this is almost impossible. You cannot
block the thoughts entirely unless you are a yoga genius and you cannot get
physical. This is why I have just ordered a hand-gripper from Amazon. The palm-sized
tool is meant to sharpen your muscular development along the forearms but it
serves a great purpose of immediately diverting all the attention to slightly
hard, and therefore effective, action of pressing down and releasing. This might
sound similar to breathing in and exhaling slowly but the two activities are
entirely different.
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