Tips for Overcoming Panic Attacks: Finding Cures For Panic Attacks- Part 3 of 4
When you’ve become more comfortable with these thoughts, you’ll find that even if you have them, it doesn’t matter. How you react to them is what determines whether or not you will have an panic attack. You should remember that you’re not the only one who has these thoughts. In fact, everyone does, it’s just that not everyone reacts the same way.
By learning to casually ignore your anxious thoughts, you will give yourself the power to free yourself of your anxiety and the physical reaction that can often go with that anxiety, you are on your way to finding cures for panic attacks. Just because you are an anxious person doesn’t mean that you have to be trapped with your negative thoughts, you can train yourself to not react to thoughts that cause anxiety and learn to overcome your panic attacks.
Here’s a for instance: You’re having a great day, when all the sudden you have a thought that makes you fearful. You automatically react to the thought physically and in an effort to calm yourself, you try to push the thought back down in your consciousness. This causes the original thought to keep surfacing again and again, which keeps triggering the symptoms of anxiety again and again. Instead, try to tell yourself, this is a fear of (fill in the blank). I am not going to worry about it, I am going to control it. I won’t react to this fear, but I will let it stay and just see it for what it is.
You’re doing great, until that same, nasty thought comes back. Only this time, its teeth are bigger and more bad things can happen from just this one little original thought. Remember that you are in control. It’s like when you’re afraid of the dark. If you continue to hide under your covers, you will continue to be scared. But if you confront the darkness and say, “I am not afraid of the dark, there is nothing there that can hurt me,” then you feel empowered and suddenly, all the shadows settle back down into what they are - shadows.
It is the same thing with thoughts. Just watch them pass by and do not react, then go back to whatever it was that you were doing, this is the anxiety cure. By just observing your fears, you are empowering yourself and taking control over your thoughts and.
PS.Read my personal story on how I cured my severe anxiety. See My Anxiety Story
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