What is Anxiety & How Can Kava Kava & Meditation Help?
Modern day anxiety relief.
What is Anxiety? Anxiety is a general term used to describe several anxiety disorders that cause nervousness, fear, apprehension, and worrying. These disorders affect how a person feels and behaves, and they can manifest real physical symptoms. Today there are plenty of modern prescription drugs that one can take to alleviate symptoms of anxiety, however, symptoms will continue to arise unless one can quiet their mind and eliminate chronic worrying and fear. Kava kava is an all natural herb used to reduce stress and anxiety and creates a relaxed state of mind. Meditation, when done properly will trigger the relaxation response and is an effective way to quiet one's mind as well as enable a person to plant suggestions into the unconscious or subconscious mind. Kava-Traction combines the benefits of kava kava with the principles of the law of attraction in order to enhance meditation. This meditation technique will absolutely melt away stress and anxiety and will create a feeling of relaxation and well being.
Anxiety can be characterized into these groups. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic attacks, phobia's, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), social anxiety and separation anxiety. Although the symptoms of each of these varies slightly, the underlying cause is fear and worrying.
Generalized anxiety disorder (or GAD) is characterized by excessive, exaggerated anxiety and worry about everyday life events with no obvious reasons for worry. People with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder tend to always expect disaster and can't stop worrying about health, money, family, work, or school. In people with GAD, the worry often is unrealistic or out of proportion for the situation. Daily life becomes a constant state of worry, fear, and dread. Eventually, the anxiety so dominates the person's thinking that it interferes with daily functioning, including work, school, social activities, and relationships. Panic attacks are a type of anxiety characterized by brief or sudden attacks of intense terror and apprehension that leads to shaking, confusion, dizziness, nausea, and difficulty breathing. Panic attacks tend to arise abruptly and peak after 10 minutes, but they then may last for hours. Panic disorders usually occur after frightening experiences or prolonged stress, but they can be spontaneous as well. Phobia's are an irrational fear and avoidance of an object or situation. Phobias are different from generalized anxiety disorders because a phobia has a fear response identified with a specific cause. The fear may be acknowledged as irrational or unnecessary, but the person is still unable to control the anxiety that results. Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by thoughts or actions that are repetitive, distressing, and intrusive. OCD suffers usually know that their compulsions are unreasonable or irrational. Often, the logic of someone with OCD will appear superstitious, such as an insistence in walking in a certain pattern. OCD sufferers may obsessively clean personal items or hands or constantly check locks, stoves and windows. Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is anxiety that results from previous trauma such as military combat, rape, trauma or a serious accident. Social anxiety is a type of social phobia characterized by a fear of being negatively judged by others or a fear of public embarrassment. This includes feelings such as stage fright, a fear of intimacy, and a fear of humiliation. Separation anxiety is characterized by high levels of anxiety when separated from a person or place that provides feelings of security or safety. Sometimes separation results in panic, and it is considered a disorder when the response is excessive or inappropriate.
Anxiety can be characterized into these groups. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic attacks, phobia's, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), social anxiety and separation anxiety. Although the symptoms of each of these varies slightly, the underlying cause is fear and worrying.
Generalized anxiety disorder (or GAD) is characterized by excessive, exaggerated anxiety and worry about everyday life events with no obvious reasons for worry. People with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder tend to always expect disaster and can't stop worrying about health, money, family, work, or school. In people with GAD, the worry often is unrealistic or out of proportion for the situation. Daily life becomes a constant state of worry, fear, and dread. Eventually, the anxiety so dominates the person's thinking that it interferes with daily functioning, including work, school, social activities, and relationships. Panic attacks are a type of anxiety characterized by brief or sudden attacks of intense terror and apprehension that leads to shaking, confusion, dizziness, nausea, and difficulty breathing. Panic attacks tend to arise abruptly and peak after 10 minutes, but they then may last for hours. Panic disorders usually occur after frightening experiences or prolonged stress, but they can be spontaneous as well. Phobia's are an irrational fear and avoidance of an object or situation. Phobias are different from generalized anxiety disorders because a phobia has a fear response identified with a specific cause. The fear may be acknowledged as irrational or unnecessary, but the person is still unable to control the anxiety that results. Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by thoughts or actions that are repetitive, distressing, and intrusive. OCD suffers usually know that their compulsions are unreasonable or irrational. Often, the logic of someone with OCD will appear superstitious, such as an insistence in walking in a certain pattern. OCD sufferers may obsessively clean personal items or hands or constantly check locks, stoves and windows. Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is anxiety that results from previous trauma such as military combat, rape, trauma or a serious accident. Social anxiety is a type of social phobia characterized by a fear of being negatively judged by others or a fear of public embarrassment. This includes feelings such as stage fright, a fear of intimacy, and a fear of humiliation. Separation anxiety is characterized by high levels of anxiety when separated from a person or place that provides feelings of security or safety. Sometimes separation results in panic, and it is considered a disorder when the response is excessive or inappropriate.
