30 Day Anxiety Challenge, Day 15: Do Something Nice For Someone
Congratulations! Today is Day 15 which means you have made it halfway through the 30 Day Anxiety Challenge! It is quite an accomplishment to have come this far! Today also kicks off week 3 of the program.
Don’t forget to mark off your success from Day 14 on your Anxiety Challenge Tracker.
Now, let’s get started with Day 15 of learning how to manage our anxiety and panic!
DAY 15 CHALLENGE: Do Something Nice For Someone
How To Meet Todays Goal:
Today, do something totally unexpected for someone else – essentially, a random act of kindness. It can be for someone you know or a total stranger. It can be something free or something purchased. The choice is totally yours.
How It Helps Anxiety:
With anxiety we often get so caught up in our own head. By helping out someone else, you are taking a step out of your brain and focusing on bringing kindness to another person. Studies show that performing compassionate acts for others actually improves symptoms of anxiety and depression.
As anxious people we are often quite cruel to ourselves. By helping other people, we are reinforcing the steps needed to be compassionate which ultimately teaches us how to be more compassionate to ourselves. Helping others makes those people feel good, which helps to build self esteem. Doing a kind act also helps build relationships, which has numerous benefits for those of us with anxiety and panic.
Wrap-Up:
At the end of the day, we as anxiety sufferers need to practice more self compassion. We need to un-learn the nasty and harmful habit of constantly judging ourselves. Through showing compassion to others, we mute – at least temporarily – the voice in our heads that can constantly judge us because the focus is no longer on us.
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Additional Resources:
Article: How Helping Others Can Relieve Anxiety and Depression (Psychology Today)
Article: Compassion Deflects Social Anxiety (MSU)
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