Holistic Treatments for High Functioning Anxiety

In this series about High Functioning Anxiety and as mentioned in the first blog post on High Functioning Anxiety, High Functioning Anxiety is a term that typically refers to someone who experiences anxiety while still managing daily life quite well.


The Dangers of High Functioning Anxiety if you ignore it and keep it untreated have been discussed in previous blog.

Conventional Medicine treatments that can help with High Functioning Anxiety and their accompanying side effects have also been discussed in the previous blog.

Holistic medicines such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Bazi Fengshui, Yoga Meditation view of High Functioning Anxiety are also discussed.

What can holistic medicines such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Bazi Fengshui, Yoga Meditation offer to help treat High Functioning Anxiety from the root cause?

Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment on High Functioning Anxiety

Acupuncture, herbs and various other treatment modalities in Traditional Chinese Medicine can help the body to rebalance in accordance to the imbalances that resulted in the symptoms of High Functioning Anxiety. You can read more about how TCM can help with anxiety in my previous blog post on Everything you need to know about Anxiety.

More importantly, TCM treatment for High Functioning Anxiety is not just focused on the Heart but also the Kidneys which are both highly depleted in such patients. With that, the factor of fear of appearing as losing it all in the external facade of success and also the feelings of anxiety and insecurity will be addressed and resolved at the same time with the right techniques and skills of the physician.

Read more about Acupuncture for Time Abundance here.

Bazi Fengshui Remedy on High Functioning Anxiety

If Seven Killing Star is active in an unfavorable way for the individual in the natal chart or that it is during the year or luck cycle that the Seven Killing Star is present for the individual, the compulsion to succeed and fight through with aggression will be prominent.

It will be important to have other elemental stars such as HO, DR, IR, EG to be present to help mitigate the effect of 7K. If not actions of HO, DR, IR, EG need to be done to lower the effect of 7K.

Examples of mitigation remedies will be to be grateful and appreciative of what you already have achieved, be expressive about your internal struggles by speaking to someone you can trust.

With Fengshui, positioning of the work desk in sectors of Heavenly Doctor and Stability will help to reduce the aggressiveness of the individual having High Functioning Anxiety.

Yoga Meditation Remedy on High Functioning Anxiety

Metta meditation or loving kindness meditation is one practice that can help with not just simple anxiety but high functioning anxiety.

The core of the problem for high functioning anxiety patients stems from lack of self love, feelings of unworthiness and a deep sense of insecurity.

Metta meditation if done right will inculcate kindness and compassion towards oneself and allow the high performing individual to take it easy on oneself and be vulnerable to seek help.