Optimal Anxiety: Getting Out Of Your Comfort Zone

Anxiety is a psychological detrimental disease. Therefore, anxious people suffer from unstable psyche. Anxiety constitutes “not only amusements but whole ways of live have been cultivated that alleviate the restlessness or unease that any intimation of a

Anxiety is defined as the body’s natural response to danger, an automatic alarm that goes off when you feel threatened, under pressure, or are facing a stressful situation. A little bit of anxiety can actually help a person stay attentive and on track. If we did not feel a certain level of pressure at a job or school, then perhaps we wouldn’t care about it as much. We might slack or leave a few loose ends that may cause us to fall behind. A little bit is actually beneficial, but unfortunately there are people who have to deal with anxiety as part of a mental illness or disorder. There are different types of anxiety which include: general anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and social phobia.

Everyone experiences some form of anxiety within their life. Anxiety is highly individualized; meaning that each person who experiences

Every time you try something new or confront something that makes us anxious. This new experience becomes familiar and you lose the fear to do it. By this we can accomplish new challenges in our life and cope better to unfamiliar situations.

Alternatively Hadley (1995) puts forward the view that contrary to popular belief, anxiety actually arises out of thoughts of potential danger and not the actual danger that produces the symptoms of anxiety. In support of this view the document by Chrysalis states that “feelings of anxiety come from apprehension or fear, the source of which is not always recognisable”. Feeling anxious at certain times in our life is a normal instinctual response that serves as a protection to aid survival. It teaches us to avoid dangerous situations and in this way is a learning process however the subconscious can sometimes work overtime resulting in response to all situations that feel remotely similar to the one that has made us feel anxious in the first instance (Chrysalis 2010 1-5 pp7). This document describes how anxiety will affect our whole being, our emotions, our behaviour and our physical health. Anxiety becomes a problem when its level rises above normal and interfere with a person’s life, associated physical symptoms include, trembling, tense muscles, churning stomach, nausea, diarrhoea, headache, heart palpitations, pins and needles, sweating or flushing (Chrysalis 2010 1-5 pp7). These feelings coupled with the physical symptoms experienced make a person want

When people think of their environment people think of their immediate surroundings; however, one's environment goes beyond and further into the psychological connection to one's personal environment. To further explain, Gallagher discusses three different aspects of The Power of Place: Outside In, Inside Out, and Synchrony. The book opens doors previously unnoticed about psychological ecology. From reading the book one learns that settings influence behavior more than the personalities of most people.

Anxiety is losing yourself from reality and being disconnected from the present moment,other people, and yourself. It can keep you from doing things you want to accomplish in life. Achieving your goals is tough enough, but if you suffer from anxiety it becomes even more difficult. I was spending every day worried about how

Anxiety affects each one of us from time to time. It just seems to come with the territory. Most often, though, we simply manage to shake it off and get on with our life with no real harm done.

Anxiety is a common occurrence and emotion in everyday life. Yet there are several individuals today who suffer from great pangs of anxiety and feelings of panic at such extremely high levels that it becomes quite debilitating. A normal, everyday environment can become so overwhelming that the day itself can stop dead in its tracks while the sufferer rides through the wave of intense emotions and thoughts which seem to be going a million miles a minute and showing no signs of stopping or slowing down.

of keeping society controlled. Keep them happy, keep them entertained, and it becomes much harder to want to leave your comfort zone. When one is already uncomfortable there is at least negative reinforcement as a motivator for a better future. The idea of living a life where having

     Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress. It helps some one deal with a tense situation in the office, study harder for an exam, keep focused on an important speech. In general, it helps some one cope. But when anxiety becomes an excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations, it has become a disabling disorder.

Overtime, individuals develop their own unique way of reducing anxiety. These individuals may use positive strategies such as, exercising, reading, and dancing, or negative strategies such as, crying, yelling, and smoking.

INTRODUCTION: Even though stress negatively affects physical and mental abilities. Stress is the cause of tensions, overwork and increasing demands. Generally, the Anxiety is a part of our life. We live with it, manage it, or more all stress over it. Our lifestyle, the region in which we live, the economy, and our occupations can result in a lot of anxiety. Not everybody manages the same level of anxiety and there are a few elements that can affect our lives and reason us to have higher or lower anxiety levels. (Feldman, 2009)

Comfort zone is securing people in a place where they feel themselves safely away from circumstances in life. The individuals can feel safe what they want, but they are damaging themselves in certain ways. They will adapt to the comfort life which, it will make it difficult for them to overcome comfort zone. This is a major problem for society because it prevents them from accomplishing goals like make important business decisions, socialize with people, denied internship opportunities feeling they are uncapable of handling certain tasks, etc. All the elements listed are taken away from people because they want to secure themselves in a safe zone where they would not tolerate with responsibilities. They are not aware they are damaging

(because anxiety plays an important adaptive role – without it we would not survive), but