Friends,
Do you fear the arrival of another panic attack?
People who have experienced panic attacks often
go around with a grave sense of unease that
at any moment, they will experience a major panic attack.
It's a fear of the ultimate panic attack that would
finally push them over the edge.
This leads people to make changes to their
behavior in order not to do anything that might
trigger a panic episode.
When people feel this way, simple daily tasks can
become big challenges. Some people start to fear
driving their car in traffic. Others fear leaving their
safe zone or simply any situation where they have
responsibilities to perform.
This state of apprehension keeps a person's anxiety level high,
leading to feelings of general anxiety.
If you are such a person I hope to put your
mind at rest. Panic attacks as well as general anxiety
(even when not accompanied by panic disorder)
can be eliminated in simple steps regardless of how
long the anxiety has been a problem.
I am speaking not just from my own personal experience
but from having worked with thousands of people
right around the world.
Here is an important observation:
The key difference between someone who is cured
of panic attacks and those who are not is really very simple.
The one who is cured is not afraid of panic attacks.
I'll try to show you how to one of these people as well.
What if I told you the trick to ending panic attacks
is to want to have one!
That sounds strange but let me explain.
A simple trick to ending panic attacks is wanting
to have one because the wanting causes an
immediate diffusion of the anticipatory fear.
Can you have a panic attack in this very second?
No !
You know the saying "what you resist persists."
Well that saying applies perfectly to fear.
If you resist a situation out of fear, the fear
around that issue will persist.
How do you stop resisting?
You move directly into the path of the
anxiety; by doing so it cannot persist because you
process the fear out through your emotions.
In essence what that means is that if you
voluntarily seek out a panic attack you won't have one.
Try in this very moment to have a panic
attack and I will bet you cannot... Yes, I know
the idea of calling on a panic attack is scary at
first but play with the concept and watch
what happens.
You may not realize it but you have always
decided to panic. You make the choice by
thinking "this is beyond my control." "These
scary sensations are beyond my bodies control."
It may help if you imagine that having a panic
attack is like standing on a cliff edge.
The anxiety, it seems, is pushing you
closer to falling over the edge. Each time you
fight back using poor "coping strategies" the more
desperate you feel.
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 a panic attack to appear.
Your real safety is the fact that a panic attack
will never harm you. That is medical fact.
You are safe, -Yes, the sensations are wild and
uncomfortable, but no harm will come to you.
Your body is in a heightened state
but no harm will come to you.
The jump becomes nothing more
than a two inch drop! You are safe.
You always were.
Think of all the panic attacks you have had to date
and come out the other end. Was there any lasting
physical damage to you, other than the
mounting feeling of panic?
Now you are going to approach this problem differently.
You actively seek out the attack like an adventure
seeker. Take the opposite approach.
YOU bring it on!!!
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