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"Just because everyone else is anxious does not mean you have to be anxious." Doris Jeanette

 

Panic Attack, Anxiety Help Question

My life is ruined with anxiety attacks and panic attacks. Is there any hope for me? Lisa in Australia

 Natural Anxiety Help Answer

Doris Jeanette, Psy.D

First, let me congratulate you on being aware of your anxiety. Most people live in denial. 

Since you experience anxiety you are more aware and more evolved than the people who live in denial. This means you are a big step ahead of people who are denying their anxiety.

Panic attacks and anxiety attacks occur when you get caught up in your irrational, out of control thoughts. Anxiety and panic attacks are similar, with panic being more high pitched than anxiety.


In the old days --that is what I call my post doctoral training at the Behavior Therapy Unit at Temple Medical School in the 1970's with Joe Wolpe, MD, Father of Behavior Therapy-- we used systematic desensitization.


With systematic desensitization we taught people to relax their body and then imagine the things they were afraid of in small steps until they were no longer afraid. Flooding was another technique. We exposed people to the anxiety stimuli all at once until their anxiety diminished.


Both approaches are effective in helping you unlearn maladaptive anxiety responses to certain situations. Use desensitization on your own any time, it is safe. But be careful with flooding, you can make your anxiety worse if you avoid the stimuli before your body returns to relaxation.

Both systematic desensitization and flooding reduce surface phobias, stress anxiety and GAD symptoms which are already in your conscious mind.

However, these techniques do not deal with the source, the root cause of what makes you anxious in the first place. Neither does the new kid on the block, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, which teaches you to think positive thoughts.

Having to think about thinking is probably the reason Cognitive Behavior Therapy has a 80% recidivism rate according to the last study I just read. Thinking keeps you in stuck in beta brain waves.

If you are in the midst of an anxiety attack or a panic attack right now you need to take immediate action to help yourself.

You need to stop hyperventilating. Properly attending to yourself in the moment will reap big dividends.

Stop Your Anxiety Attack and Panic Attack Now.

The first lesson in the multimedia ecourse, "Overcome Anxiety Naturally" teaches you how to stop your anxiety attacks with a simple, sure method we used at the Behavior Therapy Unit. You can download the first lesson immediately to learn more about how to stop anxiety attacks. Click here for anxiety and panic attack help.

While it is important to stop your anxiety attacks, it is also important to prevent them!! You can learn the steps that lead up to your attacks and what to do to prevent them.

I want a permanent and long lasting anxiety treatment which is natural and drug free.

If you agree and want to achieve relaxation and enjoy life, the first thing you need to do is get to the source of what makes you anxious. Ask yourself what is causing your out of control mental anxiety state in the first place.

Remember, if you deny your anxiety, there is no way you can help yourself.

Everyone on the planet has some static in their nervous system some of the time.

For example, take the Dali Lama who meditates 8 hours a day. Imagine the Dali Lama at your dinner table during the holidays.  I know he would get anxious if he spent a few days surrounded by your family dynamics!

If you did not let him meditate for 8 hours, his anxiety would certainly increase. If he had to go to work on Monday to make money, his anxiety would increase.  If he did not have a Divine given, high status, his anxiety would be greater than it is.

Everyone has anxiety and everyone needs to learn to relax more. Drugs do not get rid of anxiety or panic so learn to reduce anxiety naturally.

My body energy approach moves beyond verbal therapy, talk therapy, and psychotherapy. None of these talk methods touch the chaos in the lining of your stomach or the conditioned responses in your muscles.

To succeed, you need to learn how to live in your body and focus on the source of your anxiety.


Anxiety is like lightning. In nature lighting is immediately grounded.  In humans, your anxiety is not grounded. You let your out of control thoughts go on and on.

Your anxiety panic energy flies all over the place scaring you and everyone else to death. This is why your anxiety disorder, GAD or social anxiety problem becomes a serious mental health problem, emotional health problem and physical health problem.

If lightning in nature really did fly all over the place, the real world would be chaotic and it would be very, very scary. But reality is not chaotic and scary.  No, it is not. Lightning does not fly all over the place.

Nature immediately grounds lightning. The real world is not out of control. You need to bring yourself back into a safe, natural, sane state as soon as possible.

Your energy needs to be literally plugged into the ground for you to be safe. Just like the electricity in your wall, you need to get grounded, immediately.

Do not let your out of control energy continue to scare you or anyone else.

Out of control energy is dangerous. When you are not aware of the ground you are walking on, you are going to experience panic and anxiety. This is the reason you have anxiety. Your anxiety is telling you, you are out of balance.

If you are in a train headed over the cliffs you know you are in real danger. It is up to you to slow down your train and get back on the tracks.

You can learn to keep your train on the tracks and stop your irrational thoughts from ruining your life.

Get Overcoming Anxiety Naturally Help:

Take the affordable Overcoming Anxiety Naturally online course. Click here, "Overcoming Anxiety Naturally, anxiety course."

Or join Dr. Jeanette's Overcoming Anxiety Naturally in person class in Center City, Philadelphia. Click here for more information.

Or hire Dr. Jeanette as your personal, anxiety coach: click to write her or Call 215-732-6197.

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"Just because everyone else is anxious does not mean you have to be anxious." Doris Jeanette

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