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5. Stretch Your Comfort Zone
Changing your thoughts is important and so is changing your actions. When anxiety starts to creep into your life, it begins to shrink your comfort zone. Over time, you will find yourself less willing to engage in behaviors and activities that were a source of fun because anxiety convinces you that something bad will happen.
Rather than fight this scenario with your thoughts, fight it with action. By getting out and doing the pleasurable activities that seem uncomfortable, you will stretch your comfort zone, and you will lower anxiety in the meantime. Anxiety’s goal is to get bigger, stronger, and more pervasive. Spending time changing your behaviors will take away its power.
If you suffer from COPD you may be concerned that physical activity will worsen your symptoms.
