21 Day Anxiety Challenge
Calendar created with material from loveandmarriageblog.com
(Full Transparency: All credit for Anxiety Challenges go to loveandmarriageblog.com!! Thank you for your wonderful work! i’m reposting it here because I think it’s a great idea from which we can all benefit!)
Sometimes Facebook isn’t all bad.
I was scrolling through and saw one of my Facebook Friends post a link to a 21 Day Anxiety Challenge. I love challenges and I love thinking of new ways to work on anxiety. I saw a cute calendar link but only an article but wasn’t able to find a calendar, so I made one myself (see above).
The 21 Day Challenge gives you an idea each day, something to try, to quell your anxiety. It takes 21 days to form a habit, so the 21 Day Challenge mark also allows you to work consistently, for 21 Days, giving attention to anxiety. This reminds us that working to feel better, in any way, isn’t something that just happens, but is something we work towards.
Maybe try all of the 21 Challenge and see which one works for you! Maybe you will fall in love with meditation. Perhaps this will serve as a reminder for how rejuvenating it is to be outside or to create something. I love the idea of making a stress ball (Day 16 and link is here) which you can use over and over again in moments of high stress or anxiety.
Try it out and maybe mark each day, somewhere on the calendar, or in a journal, what “number” your stress is at each day, using a 1-10 scale (10 being the most anxious and 1 being almost no anxiety at all). Maybe you will notice at the end of the challenge that the number on your calendar has decreased and that YOUR HARD WORK on the challenge has gotten you there! Let me know how it goes!
Here is a list of the daily challenges (again, taken from loveandmarriageblog.com
Spend 20 minutes outside.
Spend 20 minutes outside
Color a page in a coloring book/Paint/Draw/Create
Write down five things you are grateful for.
Get hydrated.
Play music and dance.
No social media day.
Take a long bubble bath.
Ten minutes of meditation.
Do your favorite cardio exercise for 20 minutes.
Go to bed early.
Start a good vitamin regimen.
Snuggle an animal.
Mediate.
Look up Hygge and learn more about it.
Try a relaxing essential oil blend.
Pick a time of day that will be just for you.
Do something you are good at.
Make a list of your anxieties.
Comment on each anxiety with something you can do to calm it.
Journal to reflect on and celebrate your success!