DEALING WITH PANIC ATTACKS AND SIGNS OF ANXIETY

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If you have panic attacks or signs of anxiety, it may help to comfort you that you are not alone! You’re not even one in a million. In America, it is estimated that almost 5% of the population have signs of anxiety.

For some, it may be the infrequent panic attacks that only crop up in particular situations-like when having to speak in front of others, while, for other people, it can be so frequent and recurring that it inhibits them from leaving their home. Frequent panic attacks often develop into what medical physicians refer to as an “anxiety disorder.”

Treating Signs of Anxiety

There are many ways of coping with an anxiety disorder. Some may not work for you, but others just might. It helps to know some of the most common coping techniques for dealing with panic attacks when they begin.

Your first step is to recognize when a panic attack is about to begin. When you have enough of them, you start to really pay attention to the tingling sensation, the shortness of breath, and the disconnection from the real life around you.

Many people I talk to wonder what that disconnection is like. They have a hard time understanding it. Those of us who have panic attacks are all too familiar with it. It’s like you can look at a solid object and see that it is there. You know it’s there, but a part of your mind doubts that it really IS there.

You may find yourself reaching out to touch that object just to be sure. You feel like you’re not a part of the world around you. It’s as if you are just a spectator in your own life with no control over anything around you.

Believe me, this is a horrible feeling.

So how do you start trying to combat your panic attacks? What if I told you the trick to ending panic and anxiety attacks is to WANT to have one. That sounds strange, even contradictory, doesn’t it? But the want really does help push it away.

Does this mean that you should be able to bring on a panic attack at this very moment? Absolutely not! What it means is that when you are afraid of something – in this case a panic attack – it will more than likely appear and wreak havoc. When you stand up to the attack, your chances of fending it off are much greater.

If you resist a situation out of fear, the fear around that issue will persist. How do you stop resisting-you move directly into it, into the path of the anxiety, and by doing so it cannot persist.

Alternative Methods of Handling Signs of Anxiety

In essence what this means is that if you daily voluntarily seek to have a panic attack, you cannot have one. Try in this very moment to have a panic attack and I will guarantee you cannot. You may not realize it but you have always decided to panic. You make the choice by saying this is beyond my control whether it be consciously or sub-consciously.

Another way to appreciate this is to imagine having a panic attack as like standing on a cliff’s edge. The anxiety seemingly pushes you closer to falling over the edge. To be rid of the fear you must metaphorically jump. You must jump off the cliff edge and into the anxiety and fear and all the things that you fear most.

How do you jump? You jump by wanting to have a panic attack. You go about your day asking for anxiety and panic attacks to appear.

Your real safety is the fact that a panic attack will never harm you. That is a medical fact. You are safe, the sensations are wild but no harm will come to you. Your heart is racing but no harm will come to you. The jump becomes nothing more than a two foot drop! It’s perfectly safe.

Anxiety causes an imbalance in your life whereby all of the mental worry creates a top-heavy sensation. All of your focus is moved from the center of your body to the head. Schools of meditation often like to demonstrate an example of this top-heavy imbalance by showing how easily the body can lose its sense of center.

The key to overcoming panic attacks is to relax. That’s easy to say but difficult to do. A good way to do this is to concentrate on your breathing making sure it is slow and steady. One of the first signs of a panic attack is difficulty breathing, and you may find yourself panting to catch a breath. When you focus on making those breaths even, your heart rate will slow down and the panic will subside.

Breathing more slowly and deeply has a calming effect. A good way to breathe easier is to let all the air out of your lungs. This forces your lungs to reach for a deeper breath next time. Continue to focus on your out-breath, letting all the air out of your lungs and soon you’ll find your breathing is deeper and you feel calmer.

Ideally, you want to take the focus off the fact that you are having a panic attack. Try to press your feet, one at a time, into the ground. Feel how connected and rooted they are to the ground.

An even better way is to lie down with your bottom near a wall. Place your feet against the wall (your knees are bent) and press your feet one at a time into the wall. If you can breathe in as you press your foot against the wall, and breathe out as you release it, it will be more effective. You should alternate between your feet. Do this for 10 – 15 minutes or until the panic subsides.

Use all of your senses to take full notice of what you see, hear, feel, and smell in your environment. This will help you to remain present. Panic is generally associated with remembering upsetting events from the past or anticipating something upsetting in the future. Anything that helps keep you focused in the present will be calming. Try holding a pet; looking around your room and noticing the colors, textures, and shapes; listening closely to the sounds you hear; call a friend; or smell the smells that are near you.

Many people strongly advocate aromatherapy to deal with panic and anxiety. Lavender can have an especially calming and soothing effect when you smell it. You can find essential oil of lavender at many stores. Keep it handy and take a sniff when you start feeling anxious.

Try putting a few drops of lavender essence oil into some oil (olive or grape seed oil will do) and rub on your body. Keep a prepared mixture in a dark glass bottle for when you need it. You can even prepare several bottles, with a small one to carry with you.

Other essential oils known to help panic and panic attacks are helichrysum, frankincense, and marjoram. Smell each of them, and use what smells best to you, or a combination of your favorite oils mixed in olive or grape seed oil.

You may want to prepare yourself BEFORE a panic attack happens. When you’re not in a panicked state, make a list of the things that you’re afraid will happen. Then write out calming things that tell you the opposite of your fears. Then you can repeat these things to yourself when the panic starts to come.

Prepare a list of things to do in case of panicked feelings, and it will be ready for you when you need it. Fill it with lots of soothing messages and ideas of calming things to do. I find this to be a very helpful tool and am never without my small notebook that has these positive affirmations in it.

Panic can be a very scary thing to go through, especially if you’re alone. Preparing for when the panic comes can really help reduce the panic, and even sometimes help to prevent it.

Another great tool to combating signs of anxiety and stress is to use visualization. Visualization is a great way to treat panic attacks.

Free Yourself From Panic Disorders

By Renee Pullman

Most of us experience some form of anxiety on a daily basis. Even so many are unable to appreciate the plight of those who suffer anxiety or panic attacks. These attacks suddenly are upon the victim and put them out of control with a variety of symptoms including heart attack, suffocation, and many more. When the attack is over the symptoms end and there is no physical damage, yet life is disrupted and the victim is left with a fear of future attacks. There is a way to treat and overcome panic attacks.

Fear Unleashed, Panic Attack Physical Symptoms

These attacks can come out of nowhere. This is perhaps the most difficult part about panic attacks. Here you are going crazy trying to figure out why you are losing control and what is triggering the fear, the chest pain, and all the rest. It is also possible that a medical condition unleashes the fear and you should check on that. But if otherwise you have a clean bill of health then it’s time to find a treatment that will help you break free of these panic attacks forever.

Reducing stress is one of the effective treatments for panic attacks. Stress reduction can also have an overall positive effect on your health. Relaxation can do things for you like reduce blood pressure and generally make you a happier person. Breathing exercises like those taught in Yoga can go along way to help you. If you consider that stress is the gasoline that drives the panic attack car, then you can see the real benefit.

Panic Attacks And Meditation, The Relaxation Response

Meditation is a good way to reduce stress. There is Yoga meditation based on breath but there are also simpler, effective ways to meditate. Dr. Herbert Benson published a book called “The Relaxation Response.” Dr. Benson describes a simple method that releases stress and thereby helps to physically heal the body. Using this method you sit upright and breathe out – breathe in – breathe out and each time you breathe out you say the word “one.” Stretch it out like: “Oneeeeeeee. “Say it either to yourself or aloud and as you continue to do this work on slowing your breathing by making your breaths in and out longer. Continue for 20 minutes or so and do it everyday. You will find your stress going down and your life improving.

Reducing stress will help is a good way to begin to treat and overcome panic attacks. As you begin to feel an attack coming on go into your breathing and repeating the word one. This will distract you and help break the anxiety cycle that brings on full blown attacks. As you practice this you will be able to remain panic free for longer and longer periods of time.

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By Renee Pullman

There is good news if you suffer from panic and anxiety attacks: you cannot only improve the situation but you can eliminate panic and anxiety attacks without drugs using a new form of panic therapy. Most people with panic and anxiety attacks are given prescription drugs. These drugs often fail to work and they dull the mind and knocks them into a walking zombie state while the drugs try to suppress the panic and emotions. Often patients are taken through a series of drugs while the doctor tries to find “the one” that will be the miracle cure. It all seems like a big experiment rather than medical science.

Some doctors and medical researchers are now seeing a newer panic therapy that may work better. If you are not comfortable on medication then this may be an approach for you. This new panic therapy is without drugs and instead of knocking you silly so your attacks are not as severe, it helps you notice the cues that say that the attacks are about ot happen and which will allow you to learn to avoid them. Anxiety and panic attacks are caused by stress of modern living and by observing them you will discover there is always a trigger.

Behavior therapy allows you to see and use these triggers, it allows you to see what the triggers are about. Over a short time will allow you to be able to handle the emotions and anxiety. The best part is after you learn to see these triggers, to see these precursors to panic and anxiety attacks you will be able to curb the emotions and the panic attacks. This progress will stick. It is not something you lose and have to learn over and over each day as you do with drugs which must be taken everyday to put you back into that dull state that suppresses the feelings. The behavior panic therapy sticks resulting in a cure.

You are much more likely to be successful using this kind of panic therapy. You can go through the training at your own speed and pick up the methods that work best for you. You will learn that one of your biggest problems is fear of impending attacks. You will learn to notice the triggers and handle the attacks at a much lower level of emotion and push them off. No matter how intense the feelings are you will be able to manage them and make progress. Soon the attacks will stop being an issue.

Interrupt the cycle of fear and bring your life back into your hands. Interrupt the never ending terror that drugs cannot address. Drugs can bring you to a level of functioning and perhaps that is progress for you but is it the life you want?

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By Renee Pullman

Anxiety attacks or panic attacks are some of the most misunderstood conditions. Often people shut themselves away because they also develop a social phobia. Sufferers are often accused of faking the condition because it makes no sense to many around them. This is especially true if the condition has lasted over months or years.

If you suffer anxiety attacks or you are close to someone who does then perhaps you are confused about all of the treatment options. Maybe you have tried various things and yet the problem persists and you don’t know where to turn. With therapy, drugs, and medication behind you perhaps it’s time to turn to a natural cure.

Anxiety attacks can ruin your life, it is an emotional roller coaster. The attacks can cause physical symptoms, physical pain, high blood pressure, tingling sensations, pounding heart, and even heart palpitations. The longer the problem persists the worse it may get you may even fear dying.

The natural approach to anxiety attacks asks you to look at where your fears are coming from, finding what causes panic. What do you think about, what are you doing when they come. Can you find common triggers for the attacks, can you notice when the attacks begin and what is going through your mind as they begin? It also involves learning not to fear the attacks. Regardless of what your mind is telling you, you are perfectly safe and you need to program yourself to remember that in the midst of your attack.

There may be several triggers for your attacks – have problems backed up at work, is something causing you to feel overwhelmed? Are their people you don’t want to face? These things can lead to worry and trigger an anxiety attack.

Worry solves nothing and most of the time the thing you worry about never happens anyway. Worry usually shuts people down and shutting down means any potential problems are not being addressed. Sitting idly by and torturing yourself with your mind will not change anything. To change anything you have to take action. Take note of what’s going on and how it makes you feel but realize that if there is a real issue behind things you will need to do something to fix it.

Finding an anxiety cure that is right for you possibly means trying different methods until you find one that works. That said, you can save a lot of time by doing research and see what effective treatments are working for others, what different methods work to cure panic anxiety attacks.

I invite you to learn more about an anxiety cure and how to stop anxiety panic attacks (it is not always the logical process that we expect).

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What is the best treatment for panic attacks?  How do you start trying to combat your panic attacks? What if I told you the trick to ending panic and anxiety attacks is to WANT to have one. That sounds strange, even contradictory, doesn’t it? But the want really does help push it away and this is fundamental in the treatment for panic attacks.

>> How To Stop A Panic Attack …In Less Than 5 Minutes

Does this mean that you should be able to bring on a panic attack at this very moment? Absolutely not! What it means is that when you are afraid of something – in this case a panic attack – it will more than likely appear and wreak havoc. When you stand up to the attack, your chances of fending it off are much greater.

If you resist a situation out of fear, the fear around that issue will persist. How do you stop resisting-you move directly into it, into the path of the anxiety, and by doing so it cannot persist and this will help treat the panic attack.

In essence what this means is that if you daily voluntarily seek to have a panic attack, you cannot have one. Try in this very moment to have a panic attack and I will guarantee you cannot. You may not realize it but you have always decided to panic. You make the choice by saying this is beyond my control whether it be consciously or sub-consciously.

Treatment For Panic Attacks, The Dilemma

Another way to appreciate this is to imagine having a panic attack as like standing on a cliff’s edge. The anxiety seemingly pushes you closer to falling over the edge. To be rid of the fear you must metaphorically jump. You must jump off the cliff edge and into the anxiety and fear and all the things that you fear most.  The treatment for panic attacks is counter-intuitive.

How do you jump? You jump by wanting to have a panic attack. You go about your day asking for anxiety and panic attacks to appear.

Your real safety is the fact that a panic attack will never harm you. That is a medical fact. You are safe, the sensations are wild but no harm will come to you. Your heart is racing but no harm will come to you. The jump becomes nothing more than a two foot drop! It’s perfectly safe.

A Final Word About The Treatment For Panic Attacks

Anxiety causes an imbalance in your life whereby all of the mental worry creates a top-heavy sensation. All of your focus is moved from the center of your body to the head. Schools of meditation often like to demonstrate an example of this top-heavy imbalance by showing how easily the body can lose its sense of center.

Learn More About The: Treatment For Panic Attacks

To Be Continued…