Holistic View on 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.

So what can Holistic medicines such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Bazi Fengshui, Yoga Meditation view of High Functioning Anxiety?

Traditional Chinese Medicine View on High Functioning Anxiety

Traditional Chinese Medicine sees anxiety as an emotion related mainly to the Heart. You can read more about this in my previous blog post on Everything you need to know about Anxiety. 


However for High Functioning Anxiety, not only is the Heart the main organ involved, the Kidney is another organ that is in high deficit for this condition.


This is because patients on high functioning mode are usually on the fight-and-flight response and adrenaline is constantly running though their system so that they can be on optimal performance mode all the time. However this adrenaline rush is upkept by the energy from the Kidney which governs life essences and core life force.


Therefore High Functioning Anxiety patients usually have a mixture of syndromes which presents as Heart and Kidney energies being imbalanced. Heart fire is usually excessive which results in symptoms such as heart palpitations, irritability, frustrations, mind racing. Kidney yin and yang are usually deficient which can show up as symptoms such as insomnia or poor sleep, hot flushes, night sweating, low libido and a constant feeling of fear and worry.

Bazi Fengshui View on High Functioning Anxiety

The Seven Killing Star will usually result in the individual having the characteristics of being aggressive and empowered with the drive to execute every plan that one can get the chance on. When this Star is active, it is important to them to have tried than to actually succeed, a signature characteristic of High Functioning Anxiety patient. The Star can be inherent in the body constitution of the individual or depending on timings of luck cycle be activated when the right timing is reached in the individual’s life.

Yoga Meditation View on High Functioning Anxiety

For patient with High Functioning Anxiety, the chakras that may be out of balance are usually sacral and solar plexus chakra.


High Functioning Anxiety has a certain degree of addiction and compulsion for keeping everything together and striving for perfection, which when the sacral chakra is imbalanced such presentations can be prominent.


High functioning anxiety patients are usually running on adrenaline which can also deplete and bring about imbalance in the Solar Plexus Chakra. Fears, eating disorders, anxiety, loss of control are experienced in a out-of-balance Solar Plexus Chakra individual which are also symptoms of High Functioning Anxiety sufferer.

So what exact treatments are there to help with High Functioning Anxiety with Holistic Medicines such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Bazi Fengshui, Yoga Meditation?

Read on in my next blog.

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