Do you suffer from nagging anxious thoughts? Do you fear losing control to your anxious attacks? Do you live in almost constant fear of the next attack, dreading the nausea, dizziness, chest pains, feelings of unreality, feelings that something is seriously wrong with you, feelings that it's impossible to control your thoughts? If you do, you're not alone - and the good news is, YOU CAN SAY GOODBYE to these fears.
In this article I'm going to share with you some very powerful tips on how to calm panic attacks and eliminate them from your life once and for all.
What can be done for people who suffer from repetitive anxious thoughts? In order to understand this, it's important to understand how the cycle of fear during a panic attack works.
Usually, it starts with a small anxious thought.
Once this thought flashes across your mind and you contemplate it, your fear sends a shock-wave through your nervous system, and you feel that fear start to build upon itself.
Because the feeling keeps getting stronger, you start to focus more and more on it, thinking "What's wrong with me? Why can't I stop these scary thoughts?" This just perpetuates the cycle of fearful thoughts, and before you know it, you're having a full-blown attack.
Here's how to calm panic attacks easily and take back your control...
The most important thing you can do when you start to feel a panic attack coming on is NOT force the thought away.
Let the thoughts in.
The key to calming panic attacks is not to stop the anxious thoughts from occurring, but to change the way you react to them when they happen.
Everyone experiences feelings of anxiety, it's how we react to them that separates someone who experiences panic attacks and someone who doesn't.
Once you can change your reaction to the anxious thoughts, you can take back control.
Practice following these 4 simple steps...
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Invite your fearful thought in and observe it 2.
Label it (that's a fear of x, or whatever) 3.
Step back and watch the thought as it passes by, without judging it 4.
Move your attention back to what you were doing before the thought occurred The key is to see your anxious thought for what it truly is - just a thought, and nothing more.
Realizing this stops your mind from running away with your sanity - now you're calling the shots, and you're in control.
This technique will be tough the first couple of times, but stick with it.
Once you practice and get better at this, you can even start to invite panic attacks to happen, because you'll know exactly how to deal with them.
Your fear will quickly begin to evaporate, and you'll realize that being panic attack free can be your reality.