{"id":3246,"date":"2021-11-23T18:38:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/the-unexpected-spiritual-practice-that-majorly-eased-my-anxiety\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T18:38:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:38:51","slug":"the-unexpected-spiritual-practice-that-majorly-eased-my-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/the-unexpected-spiritual-practice-that-majorly-eased-my-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unexpected Spiritual Practice That Majorly Eased My Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindbodygreen-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/c_fill,w_700,h_400,g_auto,q_85,fl_lossy,f_jpg\/org\/kzsl3afyikwb5lsb3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Up until this point, the stress in my life had been mostly mental stress and frustration concerning the planet. I felt helpless and as if so much was out of our control. All this uncertainty, isolation, and separation took a toll on me. My system shut down and put me in a state of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect I&#8217;m not alone in feeling this way; there is research to show that\u00a0by late 2020, 37% of Americans had symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder. And during the continued pandemic, about 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. have reported symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder.<\/p>\n<p>After spending 24 hours in the ER, before I left the hospital, the nurse asked me, &#8220;What is your plan as you leave? Did this experience teach you anything?&#8221; I responded with a full heart, &#8220;A major re-evaluation of my life is in order, starting with radical self-care and adding in a nourishing daily routine. I will no longer let the things I can&#8217;t control, control me.&#8221; She hugged me and responded, &#8220;You deserve your own care and love. You are worth it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I will no longer let the things I can&#8217;t control, control me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I knew I needed to change my lifestyle and stop obsessing about things I couldn&#8217;t control.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/spiritual-practice-that-eased-my-anxiety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until this point, the stress in my life had been mostly mental stress and frustration concerning the planet. I felt helpless and as if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}