What alternatives do you use to cope ...

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Registered: 03-11-2004
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Thu, 03-03-2005 - 9:17am

What alternatives do you use to cope with anxiety, excluding meds & therapy?



  • exercise, including yoga, tai chi, etc.
  • hypnotherapy
  • relaxation
  • breathing exercises
  • vitamins, herbs, supplements
  • meditation
  • positive thinking
  • massage
  • a combination, please feel free to post
  • other, please feel free to post


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Registered: 09-01-2004
Thu, 03-10-2005 - 4:31pm

Exercise is huge for me - it really does help. I also use some breathing exercises to control my heart rate that I picked up from yoga that really help. When anxiety is particularly bad, I combine the breathing exercises with some visualization that my therapist taught me. I breathe in, imagining that my body is filling with beautiful golden light and, when I breathe out, I imagine pushing that light out of the pores of my body, sweeping away all of the bad and scary things.

Seems to help.

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Registered: 03-11-2004
Fri, 03-11-2005 - 8:10am
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