Let me start by making an analogy that I think best describe the situation. When emotions are most of the time suppressed, they get stored in the subconscious’ bottle of the mind. Overtime, when the subconscious bottle is full, they burst out. The bursting out of emotions from the sublime subconscious mind results into a psychological tremor and intense physical discomfort.
On one hand, the subconscious mind is a super sensitive detector that copies all expressions (joy, excitement) and unexpressions in the waking stage such as self denial, unexpressed feelings, and many other psychological distresses. On the other hand, it is also like an infinite hard disk drive that stores all the data taken out from the events in the waking stage.
In normal cases, dreams (sleeping state) release emotional tension by expressing the most longed for desires which is suppressed during the waking state. It also defies logic and rationality as it tends to rumble and jumble all things in one basket. In abnormal cases, when someone is highly and intensely anxious during the waking state without having enough channels for release of tension, one will desperately not achieve emotional balance which in the end, produces a great deal of disequilibrium in the body and mind, or to put it wholly, no peace of mind.
Anxiety at night is a mere rumination of the your mind and body from your restrained rudimentary desires / longings. To put in perspective, anxiety at night is in all ways unpleasant, horrific, distressing and at worst, can cause emotional breakdowns.
Anxiety at night oftentimes occurs in the sleeping state. Completely in a different plane of consciousness, the individual feels confused and ardently frightened. Waking up from an anxiety at night is worst as it tends to put your vague sources fears into reality. One may feel unimaginably scared if not breaking down.
To help you out with this dilemma, here are some possible things you can do:
1.) Maintain a healthy lifestyle – exercise, eat fruits, vegetables, avoid fast food products and switch to alternative medicine whenever there’s not need for pharmaceuticals
2.) Take time to breathe fresh air in the morning. If it happens that you work at night, take sometime to do deep and slow breathing. Breathing always help relieve emotional worries.
3.) Learn to face and fight your anxieties. To make things concrete, whenever you feel that your anxiety is about to attack, face it rather than fleeing from it. Remember that your mental abilities are always stronger than any kind of fear. Human beings are able to transcend time and space with pure thought, there’s just a bit of prerequisite practice to achieve this.
4.) Do not eat too much and if possible, eat less at night. This will help you have digested food stuff before sleeping and prevents you from having such attacks.
You see, all four are perfectly doable. Learning how to conquer your fear with proper knowledge and action is the best way to deal and liberate yourself from Nocturnal monsters like anxiety at night.
