How to Over Come Panic Attacks For Good
The first thing you need to do when anxious thoughts and feelings come on you is to not attempt to force them aside.
Allow the thoughts to enter.
Understand that these thoughts will never completely go away.
What you can do is change how you react to them.
This is the only way you will ever rid yourself self of them.
How you react is the one thing you can control and determines how each occurrence will be defined.
Once you learn how to control your reaction, it does not matter whether the thoughts occur or not because you will know how to handle them.
There isn't a person in this world who does not, at one time or another, experience momentary thoughts they would consider frightening or unnerving.
But there is a difference in the way the average person reacts and the one who gets caught up in the cycle of thinking these thoughts over and over in their mind.
The average person sees these thoughts for just what they are - temporary feelings of anxiousness that will pass.
But an anxious person already has a higher level of anxiety than the average individual who is able to brush these thoughts off.
As the thoughts enter the anxious persons mind, the anxiety is intensified.
This sets the cycle of fear into motion.
Again, the only way this cycle is broken is by how you choose to react to the fearful thoughts.
Learn to identify a fearful thought and see it for what it is - just one of thousands of thoughts that will enter your head throughout the day.
When you feel a fearful thought coming on, allow it to enter and promise yourself that you will not react to it.
Identify the thought and allow it to flow.
Do not try to block it out or force it from your mind.
If it the thoughts and feelings become more intense and you begin to ponder even more frightening possibilities that you had not considered before, repeat the steps.
Try to look at the thoughts as from an outside or neutral perspective.
Observe the thought, acknowledge it, and let if flow.
Then get back to what you were doing beforehand.
This practice is obviously easier said than done.
But it can be done.
As you practice this more and more, fear will loosen its grip on your reactions to the thoughts.
You can handle these thoughts.
By allowing the thoughts in, instead of resisting them, the fear loses its ability to dictate your reaction to them.
Trying to avoid or pull away from the fear is what allows the fear to increase and brings on the associated tension within your system.
Instead of trying to make the thoughts go away by force or saying to yourself that you can't handle it, take the thoughts on head on.
Invite them in.
Observe them and label them while doing your utmost to not react.
Allow the thoughts to enter.
Understand that these thoughts will never completely go away.
What you can do is change how you react to them.
This is the only way you will ever rid yourself self of them.
How you react is the one thing you can control and determines how each occurrence will be defined.
Once you learn how to control your reaction, it does not matter whether the thoughts occur or not because you will know how to handle them.
There isn't a person in this world who does not, at one time or another, experience momentary thoughts they would consider frightening or unnerving.
But there is a difference in the way the average person reacts and the one who gets caught up in the cycle of thinking these thoughts over and over in their mind.
The average person sees these thoughts for just what they are - temporary feelings of anxiousness that will pass.
But an anxious person already has a higher level of anxiety than the average individual who is able to brush these thoughts off.
As the thoughts enter the anxious persons mind, the anxiety is intensified.
This sets the cycle of fear into motion.
Again, the only way this cycle is broken is by how you choose to react to the fearful thoughts.
Learn to identify a fearful thought and see it for what it is - just one of thousands of thoughts that will enter your head throughout the day.
When you feel a fearful thought coming on, allow it to enter and promise yourself that you will not react to it.
Identify the thought and allow it to flow.
Do not try to block it out or force it from your mind.
If it the thoughts and feelings become more intense and you begin to ponder even more frightening possibilities that you had not considered before, repeat the steps.
Try to look at the thoughts as from an outside or neutral perspective.
Observe the thought, acknowledge it, and let if flow.
Then get back to what you were doing beforehand.
This practice is obviously easier said than done.
But it can be done.
As you practice this more and more, fear will loosen its grip on your reactions to the thoughts.
You can handle these thoughts.
By allowing the thoughts in, instead of resisting them, the fear loses its ability to dictate your reaction to them.
Trying to avoid or pull away from the fear is what allows the fear to increase and brings on the associated tension within your system.
Instead of trying to make the thoughts go away by force or saying to yourself that you can't handle it, take the thoughts on head on.
Invite them in.
Observe them and label them while doing your utmost to not react.