Social Anxiety Treatment: Controlling Panic Attacks in Social Situations
Last time we talked about gratitude, and I wanted to continue that conversation and how it relates to social anxiety treatment. Lets continue with the exercise:
…..Some days, you might not feel the same way about some things as you do about others. If you don’t get the glow from thinking of your children, that’s okay, some days you might not. Focus instead on something else that makes you feel gratitude. You’re after the feeling in your chest. When you have this feeling, it offers you an unmistakable lightening of your emotional state. You should feel your mood lighten immediately. You should do this exercise alone so that you will be better able to focus and let the feeling last as long as you can. Keep going until you feel you can’t keep it going any more.
This can take as much or as little time as you like. You don’t have to put a time frame on it. It’s not about how long it takes, but how well you establish the connection between your heart and your mind so that you can be more able to rid your mind of the anxiety that plagues it.
When you know how to do this well, you should make sure to practice it daily. You can do it in the car (don’t close your eyes), at your desk, before you go to bed, or whenever you feel that you need a release of social anxiety. With more practice, your heart will get used to feeling this way and be able to feel this way within moments after some time.
The more you learn to do this exercise, the easier you will find it is to use it whenever you’re feeling stressful and anxious. When you take a couple of seconds to get the grateful feeling, you’ll begin to surprise yourself by the shift in your stress levels and the reactions of people around you. By taking a couple of seconds to perform this exercise it can completely change the outcome of interactions in stressful situations. You should especially practice this exercise before you walk into a social situation, or a conflict or misunderstanding between yourself and others. Give it a try, but don’t give up if it doesn’t work for you right away. Try it every day for two weeks and see if you notice a change in your ability of controlling panic attacks.
Hopefully you agree that this exercise is something that can be a worthwhile addition to your daily routine. By making this one simple lifestyle change, you will likely find that you make improvements on your quality of life. So take a moment to enjoy a free, simple gift in your life and see if you notice a change.
If it doesn’t work, you’ve lost nothing and if it does work, you’ve managed to gain a little bit of peace and well being in your ability to cope with social anxiety.
PS.Read my personal story on how I cured my severe anxiety. See My Anxiety Story
Social Anxiety Treatment and using Gratefulness to Cure for Panic Attacks
Anxiety causes us to feel top heavy, or bogged down by their constant worrying. All the negative, worrisome thoughts have caused an imbalance of focus. So, a person who suffers from social anxiety disorders can feel like they cannot focus on anything but their anxieties. You can move out of this mental fog by focusing on your heart, instead of your head. By deliberately shifting your attention to the way you feel, or your heart, you’ll begin to find that anxiety begins to slip away and your mental fog will slowly begin to clear.
If you’re not sure how to make the switch between mind and heart, start by feeling gratitude. Make sure to acknowledge that which you are grateful for. Maybe you’re doubtful, and I understand, but would it change your mind if I told you that it’s been scientifically proven that by regularly practicing gratitude can change your body chemistry so you feel more peaceful in your body and mind?
After 15 years of scientific research, the Heart Math Institute has proven that the art of gratitude can and does dramatically reduce stress and improve individual and organizations performance in their daily activities. Fortune 500 companies are beginning to use the art of gratitude to reduce work related stress and a natural remedies for anxiety. I will go over the technique with you briefly in one easy exercise to that you can begin practicing the art of gratitude today. See if you don’t feel lighter and more peaceful by doing this exercise. The idea is for you to gain a better sense of perspective in all areas of your life, including those that are troubling to you. By focusing on your emotions, or your heart, you will feel your anxiety begin to lift from you. This is also a major technique and cure for panic attacks. This is one of the most effective social anxiety treatment available.
Before you begin this exercise, plan on being alone for a little while.
Close your eyes and pay attention to the area of your heart.
Imagine you feel that area begin to warm. As it warms, imagine that you feel that warmth radiate outward into the room. Place your hand where the warmth is. Feel it glowing and giving off warmth for a couple of minutes. This exercise is intended to melt away your social anxiety. Focus on something in your life that you genuinely appreciate. This can be anything, your family, for instance. Focus on the things that really make you feel grateful. If you really appreciate what you are focused on, you should feel a response from the area of your heart in the form of a warm sensation. You might even smile. As long as you get a warm feeling in your chest, it doesn’t matter what you think of.
This shouldn’t be something that you find yourself struggling with. Just think of something that you are grateful for. Maybe it’s your kids, your significant other your dog or cat. It could be that you have a home. Whatever makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. We all have things to be grateful for, so don’t spend too much time searching, go with whatever pops into your head first. We’ll continue this exercise in my next post.
PS.Read my personal story on how I cured my severe anxiety. See My Anxiety Story
Looking for A Social Anxiety Treatment? Effective Natural Cures For Anxiety
When you are fighting anxious thoughts, there is a very valuable tool that you may have never even considered. It’s not a social anxiety treatment that is exactly mainstream yet, but it is more effective than many other techniques out there. It is gratitude.
Gratitude is one of the best natural cures for anxiety. Many people report feeling cut off from the world around them when they are battling anxiety. It can be frustrating and distressing when you feel detached from reality, because you begin to fear that you’ll never feel normal again. While this is common and in most cases, caused from anxious thinking, to the person who is experiencing it, the feeling can be nearly debilitating.
If you suffer from panic attacks or anxiety disorders of any kind, you probably spend a lot of your day monitoring yourself. You might think, do I feel okay? Are my thoughts okay? You may even ask yourself if you feel edgy or secure. This is something I refer to as “Checking In”.
By checking in, you are always making sure that you are feeling okay. The reason people with anxiety disorders constantly check in with themselves is because anxiety is powerful and can affect both the mind and body. Many people say that they can handle the anxious body, but the anxious mind is much more difficult for them to deal with.
When you suffer from anxiety, you might feel like your mind is surrounded by a thick fog. Life is hard to enjoy because you’re always seeing the world through the anxious thoughts and feelings that surround you.
Anxiety can steal all the fun from your life and make you feel like you aren’t connected to the world and your life. Maybe you’ve tried different social anxiety treatments, but none of them have worked. Maybe you’ve not tried any before now.
Anxious thoughts block you from having fun and getting to fully experience your life. When a person who suffers from anxiety disorder feels this way, it can cause them to feel separate from the world.
By feeling separate, they begin to feel isolated and this can be very distressing. It becomes a cycle when you start to be afraid that you’re losing touch with yourself.
How can you clear the fog and get back in touch with yourself? What are your options when it comes to self help anxiety with social anxiety treatment? We will get to the answers in my next post. Until then take care.
PS.Read my personal story on how I cured my severe anxiety. See My Anxiety Story
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