{"id":24631,"date":"2020-09-25T13:11:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24631"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T18:22:12","slug":"3-things-you-can-do-when-youre-feeling-anxious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24631","title":{"rendered":"3 Things You Can Do When You\u2019re Feeling Anxious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>This article is written by <a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselingcenter.org\/team-bios\/#mickenzie\">MicKenzie Crowley<\/a>, M.A. from the BCC staff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re experiencing anxiety \u2013 you are not alone! Everyone experiences fear. (Ps. 56:3b-4). <a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselingcenter.org\/#ref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You \u200b<strong>may be used to anxiety<\/strong>\u200b and have experienced it for a long time. I have experienced anxiety throughout my life at different points, not understanding what I was experiencing!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes\u200b <strong>anxiety<\/strong>\u200b \u200b<strong>sneaks up<\/strong>\u200b on us and catches us off guard. Maybe there\u2019s a random trigger you didn\u2019t expect, symptoms of stress you haven\u2019t experienced before, or a difficult situation you\u2019re in the middle of right now. Although experiencing anxiety feels overwhelming, there are ways to respond to fear well, and there are ways to learn the source of your fear.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>1. Slow down your body<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Often when we\u2019re feeling anxious it shows up in our body. Scripture teaches that we will experience fear and our bodies will react to emotions (Mark. 16:8, 2 Kings 6:15-18, Prov. 12:25, 1 Kings 19:1-18).<\/p>\n<p>You might notice:<\/p>\n<p> Breathing starts to be difficult or shallowHeart rate might start to raceFeeling sick to your stomach, or other symptoms <\/p>\n<p>When we notice these changes, we need to \u200b<strong>slow down our body and breathe:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>4-7-8 Breathing<\/strong><br \/><em>First, exhale completely through your<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is written by MicKenzie Crowley, M.A. from the BCC staff. If you\u2019re experiencing anxiety \u2013 you are not alone! Everyone experiences fear. (Ps. 56:3b-4). [1] You \u200bmay be used to anxiety\u200b and have experienced it for a long time. I have experienced anxiety throughout my life at different points, not understanding what I was experiencing! Sometimes\u200b anxiety\u200b \u200bsneaks &#8230; Read More<br \/>\nThe post 3 Things You Can Do When You\u2019re Feeling Anxious appeared first on Biblical Counseling Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":24633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[868,800],"tags":[870],"class_list":["post-24631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-center","category-selected-authors","tag-for-those-seeking-hope","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BCC-Favicon-150x150-2.png?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24635,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24631\/revisions\/24635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}