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Sigyn is the Norse goddess of fidelty, loyalty, strength of will, and love.
She is the wife of Loki, and mother tosonsNari and Narfi.
These are ways I personally honor Sigyn and my personal associations with offerings and her. If you have something negative to say keep it to yourself, these are personal and work for me.
When you feel like you no longer have the strength to keep fighting, summon that strength and fight on in honor of Sigyn.
Use the runes Sowilo, Uruz, and Nauthiz in your craft or altar.
Spend the day taking care of someone in need whether it’s a sick friend, a retirement home, or a shelter.
Go for a hike that includes in a caver or climbable rock formations.
Decorate your home or garden in milk thistle, mugwort, sweet flag iris, willow, tulips, or cherry blossoms.
Honor her sons Narvi and Vali.
Worship her for the goddess she is, too often she’s only referred to as the Wife of Loki when she’s so much more.
Add something constructive to you self care routine(start one if you don’t have one). It can be reading a self growth/help book, journaling, or doing well being wheels weekly.
Light incense or candles of floral scents, something soft that reminds you of her. I personally associate her with jasmine, irish moss, and orchid.
Wear/decorate your home in pastel colors, dark brown, and black.
Leaver her offerings in a dish or bowl. I’ve personally found that she deeply loves gathered moon water(river, rain, etc) in her little glass bowl.
Wear or decorate with the crystals rose quartz, sodalite, lepidolite, and clear quartz.
Learn first aid or take a class on the Red Cross Center(USA).
Check in with loved ones and make sure they’re doing okay.
Leave her food offerings of butter, potatoes, sweet wine, bread, mushrooms, chocolate, or mac and cheese(UPG).
Listen to music that makes you feel calm and connected to the North. I like Lynn Hilary(thanks @whichwitchami), Celtic Women, and Freyja Catherine.
Be loyal to whatever you love when you feel you do not have the strength to do so and offer that to Sigyn .
Sigyn was the norse goddess of fidelity. She was the wife of the trickster god Loki and the mother to Narfi and Váli. Her name means victorious and she is often depicted holding a bowl over Loki in his punishment, to catch the venom of a serpent to prevent it from burning him.
A lot of the time when people give advice intended to relieve anxiety, they suggest doing “relaxing” things like drawing, painting, knitting, taking a bubble bath, coloring in one of those zen coloring books, or watching glitter settle to the bottom of a jar.
This advice is always well-intentioned, and I’m not here to diss people who either give it or who benefit from it. But it has never, ever done shit for me, and this is because it goes about resolving anxiety in the completely wrong way.
THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO when suffering from anxiety is to do a “relaxing” thing that just enables your mind to dwell and obsess more on the thing that’s bothering you. You need to ESCAPE from the dwelling and the obsession in order to experience relief.
You can drive to a quiet farm, drive to the beach, drive to a park, or anywhere else, but as someone who has tried it all many, many times, trust me–it’s a waste of gas. You will just end up still sad and stressed, only with sand on your butt. You can’t physically escape your sadness. Your sadness is inside of you. To escape, you need to give your brain something to play with for a while until you can approach the issue with a healthier frame of mind.
People who have anxiety do not need more time to contemplate, because we will use it to contemplate how much we suck.
In fact, you could say that’s what anxiety is–hyper-contemplating. When we let our minds run free, they run straight into the thorn bushes. Our minds are already running, and they need to be controlled. They need to be given something to do, or they’ll destroy everything, just like an overactive husky dog ripping up all the furniture.
Therefore, I present to you:
THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO WHEN ANXIOUS
–Go on a walk
–Watch a sunset, watch fish in an aquarium, watch glitter, etc.
–Go anywhere where the main activity is sitting and watching
–Draw, color, do anything that occupies the hands and not the mind
–Do yoga, jog, go fishing, or anything that lets you mentally drift
–Do literally ANYTHING that gives you great amounts of mental space to obsess and dwell on things.
THINGS YOU SHOULD DO WHEN ANXIOUS:
–Do a crossword puzzle, Sudoku, or any other mind teaser game. Crosswords are the best.
–Write something. It doesn’t have to be a masterpiece. Write the Top 10 Best Restaurants in My City. Rank celebrities according to Best Smile. Write some dumb Legolas fanfiction and rip it up when you’re done. It’s not for publication, it’s a relief exercise that only you will see.
–Read something, watch TV, or watch a movie–as long as it’s engrossing. Don’t watch anything which you can run as background noise (like, off the top of my head, Say Yes to The Dress.) As weird as it seems, American Horror Story actually helps me a lot, because it sucks me in.
–Masturbate. Yes, I’m serious. Your mind has to concentrate on the mini-movie it’s running. It can’t run Sexy Titillating Things and All The Things That are Bothering Me at the same time. (…I hope. If it can, then…ignore this one.)
–Do math problems—literally, google “algebra problems worksheet” and solve them. If you haven’t done math since 7th grade this will really help you. I don’t mean with math, I mean with the anxiety.
–Play a game or a sport with someone that requires great mental concentration. Working with 5 people to get a ball over a net is a challenge which will require your brain to turn off the Sadness Channel.
–Play a video game, as long as it’s not something like candy crush or Tetris that’s mindless.
THINGS YOU SHOULD DO DURING PANIC ATTACKS ESPECIALLY:
–List the capitals of all the U.S. states
–List the capitals of all the European countries
–List all the shapes you can see. Or all the colors.
–List all the blonde celebrities you can think of.
–Pull up a random block of text and count all the As in it, or Es or whatever.
Now obviously, I am not a doctor. I am just an anxious person who has tried almost everything to help myself. I’ve finally realized that the stuff people recommend never works because this is a disorder that thrives on free time and free mental space. When I do the stuff I listed above, I can breathe again. And I hope it helps someone here too.
(Now this shouldn’t have to be said but if the “do nots” work for you then by all means do them. They’ve just never worked for me.)
This would’ve been great an hour ago
If your anxiety includes rapid heartbeat for no reason then it may help to exercise! It helps for me because I’m focused on whatever moves I’m doing and breathing, and it gives my heart rate a reason to be that high so that I can start the slow cooking down process and (hopefully) bring that heart rate down with it. Look up a quick cardio workout on YouTube or something and just do it in your room!
This is so, SO true.
All ‘doing something relaxing’ ever did for me was give my brain MORE free time to FREAK THE FUCK OUT.
I like how this boil down to grabbing something then tell the brains weasels to GO FETCH YOU PIECES OF SHIT
I mean.
That’s basically it tho.
YES THIS. When I was home on maternity leave with ptsd and postpartum anxiety ripping through me I made myself a list of things to do to keep myself active and busy instead of just dwelling on the awful.
Holding the Bowl 