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.
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While
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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.
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