Remedies for Panic Attacks: Discover Tricks for Coping With Panic Attacks

July 4, 2009 by Michael · Leave a Comment
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Are you desperately searching for remedies for panic attacks? Do you wish you knew the trick to coping with panic attacks? Does the idea of a panic attack make you want to panic? Does it seem like you’re nearly paralyzed with the fear that you will have a panic attack? Once you’ve had a panic attack, you worry that you might have another one at any second. The fear is that you’ll have another panic attack and that it could push you over the edge. The idea of another panic attack is so scary that many people alter their whole lives so that they don’t have to worry about having another one. Maybe you’ve looked all over for remedies for panic attacks and cures for anxiety and found nothing that helps you, but still you look, as you should.

If you suffer from panic attacks, the act of everyday living can become really, really scary to you. You might become afraid of driving, leaving the safe zone of your home or any situation that draws attention to you and your actions. By being constantly afraid of doing these things, you can develop a naturally high level of anxiety and this can lead to feelings of anxiety, making it more likely that you will have a panic attack.

You should know that there are cures for panic attacks. Panic attacks and anxiety can not only be remedied, but also can be eliminated by just following a few simple steps no matter how long you’ve had a problem with these feelings. This is not just from personal experience, it’s also from having helped thousands around the world with these same problems.

Think about this:

What separates a person who’s been cured of panic attacks and those who haven’t been is that the person who’s been cured of panic attacks is not afraid of them. Now, what if you were told that ending panic attacks has one simple trick, would you believe me? Well, it gets better. Consider that I told you that the trick was to want to have a panic attack. Would you think I was nuts? Probably. But, hear me out. By wanting to have a panic attack, you are immediately stopping the fearful anticipation of the event itself. Suddenly, the likelihood that you could suffer a panic attack right at this moment dwindles to nothing.

There is a saying that goes: what you resist persists. This is how you can look at your fears. By resisting a fearful situation, that situation will persist.

If the remedies for panic attacks are so simple, how do you stop resisting your fears?  By getting directly in the face of that which makes you anxious and stopping your fear from persisting because you get rid of it by confronting it. In other words, your fear of having a panic attack cannot grow if you are asking for a panic attack.   It just won’t happen because you are inviting it, instead of dreading it.

This way of thinking is know as cognitive behavioral therapy and its pretty powerful stuff.  If you want to learn more about how CBT can work visit my story at My Personal Anxiety Story.  We’ll talk more specifically about this coping technique in my next post. Until then, take care

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Controlling Anxiety: Coping With Panic Attacks While Public Speaking

May 31, 2009 by Michael · Leave a Comment
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Express yourself and your topic more forcefully and show your audience, and yourself that you can do this.  By controlling anxiety in this way, you are using it to your advantage to deliver a killer speech.

You’ll look more alive, be more energetic and more in the moment.  Your anxiety will inevitably drop, it always does and when you get a break, ask for more anxiety, because you want more of the feelings.  You are interested in them, but not threatened by them.

Okay, so this seems like an awful lot to be thinking while you’re trying to focus on a presentation, but you’ll find that it’s really not.  You would be amazed at how many different thoughts you can have while you’re speaking, none of which are related to your task at hand.  This is about taking on a new attitude of confidence in yourself and getting rid of your fear of speaking.

If your main fear of speaking is caused from a feeling of being trapped, then you should work on some mental releases that you can do before the speech.  Coping with panic attacks while onstage means you need to prevent panic attacks from happening in the first place.

If your speaking engagement allows you to turn attention back into the audience for feedback, etc. make sure to factor in these opportunities when planning your speech.

You don’t have to use these breaks if you don’t need them, but many people who suffer from anxiety these to be great cures for anxiety.  They find that having opportunities where they can take attention from themselves for a moment is a great way of controlling their anxiety.

It seems to make their task of speaking a little less daunting.  You may be able to do something like having people introduce themselves or offer some time for questions.  Sometimes, these diversions aren’t possible, but anytime you can create a break, even a brief break, can lessen the trapped feeling you might be having from being in the spotlight.

PS.

Read my personal story on how I cured my severe anxiety. See My Anxiety Story

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Controlling Anxiety: Anxiety Tips for Public Speaking… Continued

May 28, 2009 by Michael · Leave a Comment
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For every person, there is always a turning point where you move from being generally anxious to having a panic attack.  In the case of public speaking, this point might be when you think to yourself that you won’t be able to handle speaking in front of people.

Just one split second of self-doubt can send you spiraling into the anxiety and panic attack web.  The adrenaline begins to rush and your anxiety begins to attack you like waves.

You can, however, control your anxiety, by reacting with confidence that speaking in front of a group isn’t a threat to you, you’ll be able to stop the anxiety and avoid a panic attack.  Coping with panic attacks isn’t about controlling your body, it’s about harnessing the energy in your mind, and deflecting it into something more positive.

This new approach can be a powerful tool when controlling anxiety because you’re acknowledging your fear of speaking.  You’ll feel nervous, and you’ll go with it and the sensations in your body, but they will go right out and won’t center themselves in a way that you cannot get free of them.

Usually, the hardest part of public speaking is the beginning, but if you can get through that, you’ll probably become much more comfortable as you continue with your talk.  You have not let yourself down by feeling nervous, you’re human, it’s natural.

Think of the worst of your anxiety symptoms.  It could be your general sense of unease or losing your breath.

You will have an automatic reaction that tells you that you are going to have a panic attack at first.

You might think, “not now”, I cannot have this happen now.  It’s at this point that most people confirm that they are having a panic attack because of the way they are feeling.

This is how your thoughts create a cycle of anxiety that can lead to panic attacks and can cause you to blow your presentation.

Im often asked for anxiety tips with public speaking.  What I tell the person is next time, you have that “not now” thought, let it pass and follow it up with a thought like, well, I was wondering when you would show up.  That’s okay, because I am not scared of you at all.  You can’t hurt me.  I am safe and I will be safe.

By not pushing all of your energy down into your stomach, you will be able to move past it.  Your body will be feeling slightly excited, which is how it should feel while you’re giving a speech, so you take that energy and put it to good use.   Add it to your presentation in the form of positive emotion for the topic on which you are speaking.

Don’t push the extra energy into your stomach, put it into your presentation.

PS.

Read my personal story on how I cured my severe anxiety. See My Anxiety Story

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Natural Remedies for Anxiety: Coping with Panic Attacks- Part 3 of 4

May 16, 2009 by Michael · Leave a Comment
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When you suffer from a setback, it can feel like you’ve just taken a major step backward.  This can feel so daunting and make you want to give up, but you should know that usually when you have a setback, you generally will experience rapid progress on all different levels if you completely engage yourself with your protective side.

Your setback can prove to be an opportunity if you are willing and able to create a new relationship with your protective self, which will help to cement your recovery.

By teaching your protective self that you really are safe and encouraging it to take all of the healing steps with you, you are fully empowering yourself to end your anxiety problems.  This is the only true form of natural remedy for anxiety that you will find and it does take work.  All of your energies will be headed in the same direction, so you won’t have the conflict of another side of your personality.

When you find you’re having a setback, you need to persevere though it and work to ensure that you are successful in ending your anxiety problem.  Stay confident and keep it strong by building it stronger and stronger by reflecting on every time you have succeeded.  Keep playing your successes in your mind each night when you start to go to sleep.  Remind yourself of all the panic attacks you’ve endured and anxious times you’ve had, but you still kept on with it.

One of the most frightening things a person can go though is a panic attack and when you have an anxiety disorder you are no stranger to feeling like you’re dying.  Coping with panic attacks is huge to deal with and it takes nearly super-human strength to continuously deal with an anxiety disorder.  You should be proud of your panic attacks and that you’ve gotten though them, you found a cure for panic attacks.  You’re not a coward; you are a survivor of terrifying experiences.

To top it off, it’s likely that you kept going on with your life.  You kept going to work, picking the kids up from school and continued living, all while you felt like you were dying.  You should build on the fact that you are here now and you wake up every day to a new day.

By having all these memories of panic attacks and incidences of anxiety, you will have an endless resource for strength.  Write them all down in and effort to make them more real to you.  Read them over every day and keep a diary of your progress.  Did you make a trip across town and not panic?  Put it in your progress diary.  Did you have a day where you totally forgot that you even had an anxiety issue?  Put that in your progress diary.  Keep looking these over whenever you feel like your protective side is going to try to take over again.

PS.

Read my personal story on how I cured my severe anxiety. See My Anxiety Story

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