What are some ways you deal with anxiety?

I watch podcasts and gameplay walkthroughs. A lot of vloggers play Minecraft. Something about it is so calming. It's easy and free on Youtube. I'd recommend Achievement Hunter, personally.

I deal with anxiety by challenging my mind using brain games. I also color mandalas, draw and paint, anything to keep my mind occupied and level.

Take deep breathes. Get your mind off of everything by doing something you enjoy. Draw, write, sing, etc.

Take a deep breath. Find 5 things you can see, 4 you can hear, 3 you can touch, 2 you can taste, and 1 that you think is pretty. Try to focus on other things.

I try and take deep breaths to help me calm down and if that doesn't help I just sit down and RELAX! I don't think about anything and I start to clear my mind.

It used to be that no matter what techniques I tried, nothing could take away my anxiety. It was like I was drowning, and breathing exercises/meditation would drain the water down to my shoulders, but once I stopped focusing 100% so I could actually *do* something, the water would rise back up, and I was drowning again. The only thing that made my anxiety manageable has been medication. Medicine, for me, is like a buoy. I can grasp on that buoy, climb onto it so that less of me is in the water. There's still anxiety, but the techniques that didn't work (or barely worked) before are now enough to help me climb back on that buoy when a wave knocks me off. I can *live*. Not everyone has access to medical help for psychiatric problems, but if your anxiety is bad enough that it harms your daily functioning, then you should consider it. I knew others would give plenty of techniques, so I wanted to focus on this aspect.

With anxiety, anxious breathing is a huge factor which affects how we’re feeling at the present. A way in which I have discovered to help chill out is ‘calm breathing’ Here are a few steps to try and follow; 1 – Sit or lie down comfortably. Close your eyes if you wish. 2 – Breathe slowly and steadily in through the nose for a count of 4 seconds. 3 – Hold your breath in for a count of 2 seconds. 4- Breathe out slowly and steadily through your mouth for a count of 4 seconds. 5 – Repeat this for a few minutes. Calm breathing is extremely useful in changing the way we feel. When we breathe, we take in oxygen that is used by our body, which creates carbon dioxide which we breathe out. When we are breathing regularly these two levels are balanced. But when we are anxious breathing, out breathing rate increases. We take in more oxygen and breathe in more carbon dioxide than usual; however the body isn’t working any harder than it would (for example, when exercising) and so there isn’t any extra carbon dioxide being produced and we’re breathing in extra oxygen. Calm breathing helps to regulate this, for any more information please do feel free to contact me 

There cant ever a way to deal with something if you don't have the will to want to deal with it. You firstly have to accept that being anxious is just going to be harmful for your self. When you do, you just have to follow two simple.. If you do that properly, you'll feel better. Just close your eyes and BREATHE.