Knowing the difference between stress and anxiety is mandatory for anyone and everyone who suffers with anxiety and or panic attacks.

I am always surprised to hear how few people actually know the difference..

Check out the video below. It is an important one..

Ben

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Transcript

ANXIETY OR STRESS

Hey Its Ben, How are you doing? Hope you’re having an awesome day. Today is super important because I want to show you the difference for talk specifically, both the difference between anxiety and stress , and where they sit and what people relationship to that is.

So, one of the most important things to know in regards to this is that most people look and they want to so move and off course there is definitely difference between anxiety and stress but the truth is there is not a massive difference between the two , and I really get in that the other thing is really important to know there is that virtually everybody in this world either experiences anxiety. Not regularly but they experience anxiety or they have experience anxiety one time and other important to know you have serious challenges with anxiety don’t worry about it is very very common. In fact, with that said , virtually everybody in world experienced anxiety, at one time another, the best way to understand peoples relationship to stress to anxiety is with this chart here.

So over here on this side have no stress to other no experience of stress at all then we have little bit stress here we have some high stress up here and what happen as stress becomes a chronic thing something that happening all of the time. It starts to move people into the experience of anxiety from anxiety of course. Anxiety on high would be a panic attack .So; someone is experiencing a panic attack it is the farthest end of this scale you can possibly imagine regards to anxiety. It is the highest level of anxiety you could possible experience. As opposed to most of the time, maybe you’ve never experienced panic attack before you certainly do experience high anxiety you were just feeling huhhh, you’re just feeling like your body is just completely vibrating, you’re just not sure what to do with yourself you’re just huhhh feeling that feeling that is totally different from panic attack.

A panic attack is right that place where you, your heart is beating almost steady in your chest you feeling your both exploded or die at any particular moment and you just concerns what happening inside your body that act is a panic attack. of course, we bring it down a couple of auction stress is that thing we feels when there is a too much going on a little bit of over worm a little bit too much going on our life we feels like we can necessarily handle everything that is happening for us off course we go back from their there really isn’t stress so, we all experience time of life , when there is no stress at all may be its bring where you are on vacations may be is just in your chilling out, may be when you’re reading a book or relaxing or first thing in morning late at night whenever it is for you we all experience time when there is no stress whatever.

There is no pull on us or, just challenge or nothing to overwhelm us there is nothing to feel us to not enough to handle, whats going on. And of course we all experienced the feeling stress. Stress is something that things get little bit warming or too much going on we feels we can handle it but may be not and then off course stress become up more chronic experience it goes over to anxiety. So what happens is that not so much stress is not just happens you know all the time, all the time, all the time constantly and then turn into anxiety and every body is experience of this flowchart that say is completely different .

Now I want you to know, that I am not saying, just you experienced anxiety you going to experienced panic attack that is not a case at all you may ever experience anxiety or high stress but important to know is the fact that this is sensationally the way we have good understanding about what anxiety or stress are is that stress on high is anxiety , anxiety on high is panic attack so, as we start to move specific stress from our lives we tend to pick some less anxiety, so it means you go and remove all the stresses from your lives no , not necessary but what I’m saying is this is that is something in your life is likely stressing your little bit your other things are so may it’s a good idea step back take a break from those things or least to able to have specific coping techniques to allow you to feel more powerful and be able to handle those things in your lives that stress you out.

Things that make you little bit kind of borderline anxious. The other thing is important to know here is that anxiety and stress are feelings that we feel. Is that internal experience not an external experience so of course, raises the questions: What is the big difference between anxiety and stress? The biggest difference is our own experience of the stress, of the anxiety meaning this if you are some that has ability to handle the great deal of stress is not seriously problem for you , you feel the stress just like huhh, okay, I can handle this I can get these thing done, it’s over warming but i am able to cope up, I am able to make it happen, I am able to get through little chunk of stress here, Anxiety on the other hand something that is more chronic is something that is higher is a little bit stronger and it creates specific thought pattern in our mind and have tendency to loop in circles where is with stress that doesn’t necessarily happen.

In the anxiety, we have the tendency to loop around inside our own mind and in regards of their thoughts that make us feel stuck or trapped or really feel for or really challenge over warmed or totally be well done or we feel of great deal of guilt or resent or shame so, always, sudden from experiencing stress or anxiety , anxiety is little bit more intense , and from the intensity of anxiety moving along it brings you to panic attacks , panic attacks on the other hand are something that we all feel that we simply cannot cope with.

Years and years and years ago when I first moved from Calgary, I had a roommate, Ahhh I have never seen anybody deal with stress the way this guy did. He was the manager of really big hotel downtown and it was quite impressive, he was coming home in his suit and tie, strip down his clothes. Not that I watched, we won’t talk about that, but he strips down from his suit and tie, he put on his running shoes, pair of shorts, and everyday he would go for a run. When he got back, you know we make dinner and chat about the day. What was interesting there was, I have never seen anyone deal with stress the way this guy did for him, it never turned into anxiety, it never turned it into anything that was too much he never turned anything that was just a chronic difficult thing, because he did that things here in regards to stress that kept it within the realm of stress.

As suppose something that is turned into anxiety so if you’re someone struggling with anxiety one of the thing that can I tell you, I certainly found that it was really helpful for me is exercise. Now I am sure you heard from many different people but exercise is a massive shifter, a massive changer in regards to anxiety and the reason why is because it just as whole lot of things to your body. First thing is it oxygenates the body, secondly, it detoxifies the body and helps to move a lot of stuff that we not necessarily need. The third thing that it does it helps the reorganize your electrolyte system in body, meaning that if you drink a lot of water and you have a lot of salt sometimes, you get all kind of bloaty not feeling very good when you exercise. It has the tendency to get rid of the salt you don’t need and get rid of the toxins again that you don’t need and help to re organize your fluids in places we need them too. As opposed to having them sit in places subcutaneously just underneath the skin or within the fat we want to store within our muscles and all the places that suppose to be.

The other way it’s really helpful, it is from the energetic stand point, so it just not give you more energy, which in a lot of cases those people who experiencing anxiety and saying look, “I don’t want more energy I want to be able to calm down”, well, exercise help you calm down as well. The reason why is because it opens up all the energy channel in your body. Now if may be the word energy, channel is little bit fru fru and little bit out there for just think and terms of ancient Chinese medicine where they speak in terms of the acupuncture meridian system that runs to your body, maybe that is little bit too out there, but that’s ok. The important thing is that when you are exercise it changes the energy flow of your body to make you feel dramatically better.

So, I hope today is helpful let me know if I help out in any way please do share with this your friends help people who are struggling with the anxiety share this video with them I really appreciated I am sure they would too. hope you have an awesome day I will talk to you soon See ya!.

Ben

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