Avoid Panic Attacks - One Vital Step Can Bring Relief
One of the most helpful techniques in dealing with a panic attack is to step out of your body and look at how your body is reacting.
It's helpful because it can make you feel a little more distant from what is actually happening in your body.
At the beginning of a panic attack your body is preparing for a perceived danger even though you may not actually be in any danger.
I used to feel that everything was getting extremely bright and I had a really heightened sense of everything being close to me.
When I look back on it now I know it was just that my body was in this preparation for danger mode.
At this point your body does a lot of things.
First adrenaline starts to pump into your system preparing you for a fight or to run; your heart races and you may feel like you're going to pass out but of course you never do or at the least the chances of that happening are very low.
As you look at your body's reactions it's easier to say to yourself "oh my body is preparing for a panic attack even though nothing is going to happen".
What you accept that the panic attack is just your body's reaction that is feeding off your fear, it is easier to stop the attack from progressing any further.
So, the next step is to look at where your thoughts of anxiety and panic attack come from.
If you can reduce the intensity of that thought, then you will go a long way to stopping a panic attack from going any further.
When you have an anxious thought, there is usually a normal pattern to what happens next.
First you are probably startled by the thought and you move into a phase of contemplating the thought.
When you have a fearful reaction to the thought of shock wave is produced throughout your nervous system which is most intensely felt in your stomach.
There are a huge number of nerve endings located there.
The intensity of your reaction to the thought produces a cycle where you re-examine the anxious thought over and over again.
The result of this "looping" thought is that the intensity of your reaction to it is greater and greater and your awareness increases and more anxious shock waves are produced throughout your body.
Now is the time to start talking to your body and remove yourself from the usual reaction where you spend the rest of your day thinking about the anxious thoughts.
Ask yourself these questions: -Why am I thinking this? -Can I get rid of this feeling? As you do this, it is important to embrace the thinking and not try to push the thought of panic away from you.
Embrace your panic and simply think about it, think about what it means to panic, look at your body's reaction to the panic, the feel of feeling in your stomach and recognize that as panic.
When you do this you will gradually find that the panic itself begins to disappear, the anxiety will dissipate and you will recognize that the whole process has just been something you have been thinking about.
Nothing more and nothing less.
If you repeat this process every time you will gradually come to believe and accept that a panic attack is something you can control with your thoughts.
It's helpful because it can make you feel a little more distant from what is actually happening in your body.
At the beginning of a panic attack your body is preparing for a perceived danger even though you may not actually be in any danger.
I used to feel that everything was getting extremely bright and I had a really heightened sense of everything being close to me.
When I look back on it now I know it was just that my body was in this preparation for danger mode.
At this point your body does a lot of things.
First adrenaline starts to pump into your system preparing you for a fight or to run; your heart races and you may feel like you're going to pass out but of course you never do or at the least the chances of that happening are very low.
As you look at your body's reactions it's easier to say to yourself "oh my body is preparing for a panic attack even though nothing is going to happen".
What you accept that the panic attack is just your body's reaction that is feeding off your fear, it is easier to stop the attack from progressing any further.
So, the next step is to look at where your thoughts of anxiety and panic attack come from.
If you can reduce the intensity of that thought, then you will go a long way to stopping a panic attack from going any further.
When you have an anxious thought, there is usually a normal pattern to what happens next.
First you are probably startled by the thought and you move into a phase of contemplating the thought.
When you have a fearful reaction to the thought of shock wave is produced throughout your nervous system which is most intensely felt in your stomach.
There are a huge number of nerve endings located there.
The intensity of your reaction to the thought produces a cycle where you re-examine the anxious thought over and over again.
The result of this "looping" thought is that the intensity of your reaction to it is greater and greater and your awareness increases and more anxious shock waves are produced throughout your body.
Now is the time to start talking to your body and remove yourself from the usual reaction where you spend the rest of your day thinking about the anxious thoughts.
Ask yourself these questions: -Why am I thinking this? -Can I get rid of this feeling? As you do this, it is important to embrace the thinking and not try to push the thought of panic away from you.
Embrace your panic and simply think about it, think about what it means to panic, look at your body's reaction to the panic, the feel of feeling in your stomach and recognize that as panic.
When you do this you will gradually find that the panic itself begins to disappear, the anxiety will dissipate and you will recognize that the whole process has just been something you have been thinking about.
Nothing more and nothing less.
If you repeat this process every time you will gradually come to believe and accept that a panic attack is something you can control with your thoughts.
