Why Dealing With Anxiety Should Be A Priority For You, If You Want To Get Your Life Back
If you suffer from anxiety or know somebody who does, I dare suggest that dealing with anxiety is matter of priority.
This is because this condition can gradually ruin your physical and mental health if allowed to continue unmanaged and unchecked.
A lot of people suffer from one form of anxiety or another and sometimes they are unaware they are. It is estimated that about 5% of the population suffer from some form anxiety requiring intervention.
Some of the symptoms of anxiety and panic attack include pounding heart, fast heart beat, sweating, trembling or feeling shaky, palpitations, nausea, feeling of choking, shortness of breath, hot flashes or hot flushes, feeling of an impending doom and you invariably become aware you are losing control of the situation.
It is important to note that these symptoms can start unprovoked and without warning. You may not even understand you had just had an anxiety or panic attack especially with your first one or two attacks as you will think it is something else.
You will most probably mistake your first anxiety or panic experience for a major medical emergency.
Most people invariably have an attack when they least expect it...and because they have never had one before, they think of the worst possible scenario.
This is made worse by the fact that you are likely to have a feeling of an impending doom and you actually see yourself losing control and your heart pounding away. A lot of people mistake it for a heart attack and I don’t blame them at all.
You may experience your first attack in a supermarket, in a church, in the office, at home, at a meeting, during an event in a sports center or stadium, in a car park, whilst driving, at a friend’s house, in fact anywhere, totally unexpected.
If you’ve experienced an anxiety panic attack, then you will appreciate the fact that, it is a very nasty, awful phenomenon.
Can I reassure you here that, as we speak, there is no evidence to suggest that an anxiety or panic attack will do your physical body any harm. The event is not necessarily life-threatening. Yes, be reassured your physical body will not be harmed.
However, your mind will likely be troubled by the event...and this is where you most likely need help in dealing with anxiety.
Why?...because the unusual manner a panic attack or anxiety attack comes about nearly always plants a seed of fear of repeat attack in one’s mind.
Yes, the fear of another anxiety panic attack is the most likely reason you will experience another attack...and another. You’ve got to end that vicious circle!
So How Do You Deal With Anxiety?
Control Worries
First of all, stop worrying. The more you worry about certain upcoming events or worry about having another attack or keep having negative thoughts, the more you are likely to bring on a panic attack.
Undue worries lead inevitably to stress and stress causes anxiety. Big Time.
Those worries are unproductive and you should learn to think in a structured positive way.
Breathing It Out
If you sense an attack coming on, do the breathing exercises. Take in a deep slow breathe through the nose, hold for about 2 seconds and breathe out slowly through the mouth.
Think relaxing thoughts whilst you are doing these breathing exercises. A picture of a nice, calm, beach with beautiful white sand and a blue sea is a classic image to have and can prove helpful.
Relaxation
One other immediate exercise you can institute immediately is to tense your shoulder muscles for about 10 seconds and relax them gradually. Repeat that as often as possible whilst maintaining your relaxing thoughts.
Edmund Jacobson discovered several years ago that physical relaxation and anxiety panic attacks were directly related. He theorised that if you learnt to relax a group of muscles that are tense, then you will practically reduce your levels of anxiety.
This is the premise of this relaxation technique which helps you in dealing with anxiety.
How To Eliminate Anxiety For Good
Now those techniques above would work to stop an attack especially if the problem is not long-standing.
...But, what can you do banish anxiety out of your life forever and get rid of that fear of having another attack for good?
If you would like to learn about more advanced and powerful techniques or how stubborn anxiety and panic attacks can be dealt with, click here to watch this video presentation.
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