Panic Relief
I know the feeling. It comes all of a sudden. Your heart starts beating faster. It’s like a pounding in your chest. Your breathing speeds up and gets shallower. Your stomach gets tied up in knots, and you start feeling dizzy. Everything goes a bit blurry. These are symptoms of a Panic Attack, I used to get them all too often, and that’s when I sought Panic Relief.
Panic or Anxiety Attacks don’t usually come out of the blue, but they are generally caused by a great amount of stress in our lives. When we are constantly anxious and stressed, it only takes a small trigger that raises up our level of stress, and bang! Suddenly we are having a full blown Panic Attack.
This is when you know it’s time to seek Panic Relief. Often the case, when you have an Anxiety Attack, that it increases your overall levels of stress.
Particularly if it is generally a certain situation that triggers it, such as driving down the highway, or flying in a plane, or any other generally harmless situation. You become afraid of this situation, and begin to avoid it.
You also become afraid of just having a panic attack. This means that you are constantly more anxious and more prone to something peaking your anxiety levels and having another attack. It becomes a vicious circle.
So how do we go about getting Panic Relief and really kicking Anxiety to the Curb? Here are some quick tips, called the AWARE technique:
A – Accept Your Anxiety
You need to take acceptance that you are anxious, and not try to fight it or stress about the anxiety itself. This is a key step in Panic Relief, as fighting against a Panic Attack will only make it worse.
W – Watch Your Anxiety
Start taking notes on when you feel the most anxious. Is it certain times of day, certain places, or doing certain things?
Try to consistently talk through the anxiety. Rate your anxiety out of 10 as you feel you are having or about to have a Panic Attack. This gives you a focus and helps distract you from the thing that is causing the anxiety.
Note how long the anxiety lasts too. Having track of these things gives you a sense of ownership of the anxiety and helps you predict and start to control it.
A – Act with the Anxiety
If you maintain focus and action through a panic attack, it will lessen it and often stop it sooner. Another key aspect of Panic Relief is distraction and continuing with activity really helps this as does the rating system described before.
R – Repeat the above
To assist with the Panic Relief and consistently improve your results, keep repeating the above steps – Accept, Watch and Act (AWA). This will give you focus and thoughts to repeat instead of focusing on the anxiety itself.
E – Expect the Best
Realize that the anxiety won’t last and it does not control you. You are a valuable and worth human being and good things will happen for you. Maintaining a positive outlook and practicing this regularly, including thinking of things to be grateful for, will play a vital role in your Panic Relief and overcoming anxiety.
So there you have one technique to act on and use to help you with Panic Relief to overcome Panic Attacks.
There are other more powerful techniques and methods you can use to get a more powerful hold over your panic / anxiety and beat it into submission. I’ve used them myself, along with thousands of others. You can get more information and great advice here.
