Panic Attack Tips
Listed below are some tips that will help you to minimize some of the symptoms you experience during high anxiety and panic attacks.
It must be remembered that these are not a cure; they are simply first aid tips to assist your body in dealing more successfully with your inappropriate anxiety.
Before you can eliminate anxiety from your life completely, it is important to understand that the root cause of the anxiety needs to be addressed.
The root cause is found in the part of the brain that is responsible for the anxiety response. This can be adjusted, quickly and easily in order to provide a permanent elimination of your anxiety disorder.
As with all well-oiled machines, the human body requires fuel in order to function correctly and this is supplied in two forms; food and air. As we all know, the quality of air that we breathe is vital to the health of the human body. Polluted, smoky, or stale air can lead to a variety of health problems.
It is very easy during times of stress to neglect the correct breathing. Our autonomic nervous system subconsciously becomes affected by muscular tension and other stress reactions, which alert the breathing patterns that we take for granted.
These changes are not dangerous, but they are enough to upset the normal body chemistry associated with good health. As blood oxygen and blood carbon dioxide levels rise and fall under stress, certain systems become affected which can sometimes cause severe and disturbing symptoms; these are visible as panic, anxiety and stress.
Listed below are a few examples of diversion tactics to use when having a panic attack:
* Splash your face with cold water. This will produce the dive reflex and cause your brain to send messages to your body to slow down.
* Count down from 100 as fast as you can and repeat this over and over. Distractions such as maths or anything else that occupies your mind will help you to relax.
* Listen to your favorite music and sing along to it.
* Tell yourself "this has never hurt me, it has never hurt anyone else, and it never will."
* Tell yourself that what you are feeling are sensations; nothing more than that, sensations never hurt me.
* Watch a comedy on the television and laugh out loud.
* Don't look at yourself in the mirror.
* Gently slap your cheeks and dance around.
* If it occurs in the night, get out of bed, turn on the TV, get a drink, and keep moving.
* Talk to someone, or telephone someone, but do not discuss your anxiety.
* Do something physical if possible.
* Do not sit down! Keep moving.
Anxiety is caused and perpetuated by an organ in the brain by the name of Amygdala. When this organ becomes disrupted is causes us to experience a higher level of anxiety that is appropriate.
By addressing this disorder head on, the anxiety disorder can be turned around, quickly and permanently. All that is required is that you as the anxiety sufferer implement the method. It really is that simple!
It must be remembered that these are not a cure; they are simply first aid tips to assist your body in dealing more successfully with your inappropriate anxiety.
Before you can eliminate anxiety from your life completely, it is important to understand that the root cause of the anxiety needs to be addressed.
The root cause is found in the part of the brain that is responsible for the anxiety response. This can be adjusted, quickly and easily in order to provide a permanent elimination of your anxiety disorder.
As with all well-oiled machines, the human body requires fuel in order to function correctly and this is supplied in two forms; food and air. As we all know, the quality of air that we breathe is vital to the health of the human body. Polluted, smoky, or stale air can lead to a variety of health problems.
It is very easy during times of stress to neglect the correct breathing. Our autonomic nervous system subconsciously becomes affected by muscular tension and other stress reactions, which alert the breathing patterns that we take for granted.
These changes are not dangerous, but they are enough to upset the normal body chemistry associated with good health. As blood oxygen and blood carbon dioxide levels rise and fall under stress, certain systems become affected which can sometimes cause severe and disturbing symptoms; these are visible as panic, anxiety and stress.
Listed below are a few examples of diversion tactics to use when having a panic attack:
* Splash your face with cold water. This will produce the dive reflex and cause your brain to send messages to your body to slow down.
* Count down from 100 as fast as you can and repeat this over and over. Distractions such as maths or anything else that occupies your mind will help you to relax.
* Listen to your favorite music and sing along to it.
* Tell yourself "this has never hurt me, it has never hurt anyone else, and it never will."
* Tell yourself that what you are feeling are sensations; nothing more than that, sensations never hurt me.
* Watch a comedy on the television and laugh out loud.
* Don't look at yourself in the mirror.
* Gently slap your cheeks and dance around.
* If it occurs in the night, get out of bed, turn on the TV, get a drink, and keep moving.
* Talk to someone, or telephone someone, but do not discuss your anxiety.
* Do something physical if possible.
* Do not sit down! Keep moving.
Anxiety is caused and perpetuated by an organ in the brain by the name of Amygdala. When this organ becomes disrupted is causes us to experience a higher level of anxiety that is appropriate.
By addressing this disorder head on, the anxiety disorder can be turned around, quickly and permanently. All that is required is that you as the anxiety sufferer implement the method. It really is that simple!