Woman Cures Panic Attacks With Hypnosis

Nikki Durrant, a woman in Rowardennan, Scotland was cured of panic attacks related to driving by using hypnotherapy.

When she took her first driving test she broke down into a full fledged panic attack. She continued to have panic attacks whenever she tried to take the driving test.

Finally out of desperation she went to a Hypnotherapist and passed her driving test with flying colors. She also reported using a slow-breathing technique to help prevent a panic attack while in the car. Control of breath has been proven to be effective at reducing a persons stress and inducing relaxation.

More information on Hypnosis and how to use it to cure panic attacks to come...

Exercise Just As Effective As Psychotherapy Against Panic Attacks, Studies Show

Studies have shown that by jogging for 30 minutes, 3 times per week, you can stave off anxiety and depression just as effectively as psychotherapy.

This further shows my theory that often anxiety and other negative emotions have more to do with the lifestyle you live than psychological disorders, and by changing your life, your environment, your daily habits - you can change your psycho-emotional states and reactions.

Healthier eating habits may also help a person to cope better

Could you just be bored?

In all honesty some people have panic attacks simply because they have far too much time to think about things. They have lives which have become boring, they have all day to sit around fantasizing about horrifying scenarios because they have nothing else to do.

Boredom can very often be the source of an overactive imagination that leads to anxiety and panic attacks because your thinking about things too much.

The solution? start creating a happier life for yourself. So how do you create a better, happier, more fulfilling life and end one of the root causes for anxiety?

Focus on passion. When we are in a state of passion we enter into the moment, we go back to basics and the negative emotions plaguing our minds are erased. Find what you love and if you dont know - just think about what you enjoy most. What have you done in the past for pure pleasure?

Start doing more of that. Bring happiness and joy back into your life by building a daily life you enjoy. An exercise that helps many people is to create a vision for themselves of what they would like their average daily life to look like. Heres how you do it:

Just imagine you had a magic wand and could change your daily life to be any way you wish.

What would it look like?
What would you do?
Who would you do it with?
How would you feel?

Were not talking about one perfect day but rather your average daily life. An average day. Write that down in as specific of detail as possible. Its okay if you have trouble getting started or cant think of a lot - just begin with what you want to bring into your life.

Next, if you will spend the first 5 minutes when you wake up in the morning thinking about and meditating on that vision - I can guarantee you within the next 6 months you are going to see dramatic, positive changes in your life. I do not know of a single person who properly applies this method who does not experience positive, dramatic changes in their life. It may take a little bit but the effect is truly positive and a persons life is inevitably moved forward.

Please try this out for yourself, it changed my life, I know it will to yours too if you let it.

The Power of Your Mind and the Source of Panic Attacks

There is a simple secret which has permeated through the ages. It has been discussed in various books of religion, in self-help books, in the 'secret' and many others. It is not the law of attraction.

The source of any form of anxiety is ALWAYS the same. It is your thoughts. Your thoughts have inordinate power and more importantly, the quality and content of your thoughts determines your emotions.

Learning to run your own brain instead of being run on auto-pilot is the key to self mastery and control over anxiety, fear, anger or any other emotion you wish to develop. Many people with anxiety also suffer from a combination of perfectionism and a lack of personal boundaries. When experiencing anxiety it is often because we are stressing over things beyond our control and trying to control them.

On some level those who have anxiety are trying to induce a panic in order to control or change some undesired outcome in the world around them. Trying to perfectly control your life and control the world around you is a guaranteed formula for anger and stress.

The reason why we feel anger and stress over things like this is because we try to control something that is not 100% within our control. It is true that we have partial control over the world around us. However, it is only partial.

So the problem starts when you become emotionally attached to a certain outcome in the world around you and if you fail to achieve that outcome - panic can ensue. This is also a part of a lack of self-confidence and a fear that they cannot handle whatever undesirable outcome they are thinking about.

The key to self-mastery is controlling your thoughts. Our thoughts are always the cause of our emotions and when we learn to change our thoughts we can stop feeling anxiety instantaneously. Have you ever been angry and then something hilarious happened - only to burst out laughing and no longer feel angry?

The reason why your emotion changed was because your thoughts changed. So to begin - think about this:

What are you grateful for?

Force yourself to write out at least 3 things you are grateful for. Next,

What are you happy about?

Anyone, anyone can find at least three things they are happy about. And...

What do you like about yourself?

It is very hard for us to feel both confident and anxious about ourselves at the same time. If you will focus your mind on what you are confident about, then you will notice dramatic changes in your personality and emotions.

This is part one of a multi-part series on changing your thoughts in order to alter the results you experience in your life

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Nelson Mandelas Favorite Poem May Help Defeat Your Panic Attacks

Nelson Mandela used to read the poem Invictus everyday while he was in prison for 20 years. He said it helped to give him strength and courage to continue on in spite of difficult circumstances. If you recite this poem whenever you find yourself having a panic attack, you too may find the strength to defeat it and control it.

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Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Third Motivational Video To Help Overcome Anxiety

This third video is a short one by Nike but I think its a rather helpful one to give you motivation and courage to overcome and defeat your panic attacks

Second Motivational Video To Help Overcome Anxiety

This is another powerful video that may help you to overcome your feelings of anxiety and defeat panic attacks

Motivational Video To Help Overcome Anxiety Attacks

This video may be helpful for you to watch to overcome panic attacks

Remedies For Panic Attacks

Here are some remedies you may try to cure your panic attack symptoms:

1. Progressive Muscle Relaxation

This is similar to meditation but is preferable for those who experience panic attacks. Often when having a panic attack its too difficult to focus or meditate. So instead using progressive muscle relaxation can work wonders for helping a person to relax.

How it works is by focusing your mind on each part of your body, then imaging that part of your body as a piece of concrete. You lie down on a bed or sit in a chair, then starting with your legs you imagine each part of your body as concrete. Then finally you imagine your whole body frozen as concrete.

This helps to relax the body and when the body is relaxed the mind is as well

2. Comedy

Going to see a comedy show or watching YouTube comedy videos can work wonders for helping a person to exit a state of panic and enter into a more relaxed state. It may not cure the panic attack but it will enable you to enter into a more rational and calm state - allowing you to tackle the source of the panic far more easily.

Use this to help you gain leverage and get to the next step to wrestling the anxiety under control.

3. Acting

Perhaps one of the most powerful ways to resolve a panic attack is to act as though you did not worry about whatever causes you to feel panic. Just like an actor in a play, spend 5 minutes acting as though you were completely fine with whatever was causing the panic attack. Your just acting, its like playing when you were a kid and pretended to be someone else. Just act the part of someone who does not have panic attacks and just pretend.

Indulge in this for 5 minutes and you will notice dramatic changes in your results.

What To Do About Panic Attacks

Many people experiencing panic attacks are in terrible amounts of stress and psychological pain. Of course, if you have arrived at this site, you are desperately searching for a way to stop this torture.

#1 The first thing you need to do about your panic attacks is change something that you do. Its doesnt matter what, just start changing something.

Go out and do something fun, get your mind distracted, do something different than your routine. It is because of the way you think about things right now that you have panic attacks. The first step is start changing your environment.

Often people who have panic attacks are bored or have farrr too much time to think about things. Get distracted! Find things that you enjoy that distract you from thinking about anything else.

#2 Change your state. We are working towards getting you ready to take your panic attacks head on, but before we do that we need to get you out of that state so you can view things more objectively.

Watch funny videos to change your thought-emotional content and bring yourself out of that way of thinking.

#3 Once you have changed your state and are staying busy to keep you from always thinking about things we are going to implement a practice to help you.

Panic attacks stem from worrying. Worrying stems from thinking about future possibilities. So the way to counter this problem is to get back into the moment.

What you do is notice tiny, minuscule details about the world around you. Begin by looking at your arm or hand. Notice every tiny hair on it.

Look at your skin, notice the finite details.

Do that for about 30 seconds, taking in every subtle detail about what your looking at. Now you are back in the present moment.

When you find yourself trying to get into a worrying state, just observe something very carefully in the present moment and focus all your attention on the present. Then you will get better and better at being in the now and not trying to constantly live in a worry-panic state about the future.

What Causes Panic Attacks?

I am going to explain the root cause of panic attacks in most people.

How a panic attack works is through giving irrational thoughts power. In most cases and for most people when they have irrational thoughts they do not believe them. For example the idea that a pink elephant is sitting right beside you - you can think about it, but you do not believe that idea and so it has no power.

However, with some people - for one reason or another they have an irrational thought and either believe it or believe it could be. This leads to excessive worrying and if its allowed to play itself out, panic.

The first important thing you must understand about your panic attacks is why you are worrying about these irrational thoughts or why you give them power.

Now, you do not worry about a pink elephant being beside you, or other irrational ideas. However there is an irrational thought or a set of irrational thoughts that for one reason or another you have come to believe in.

The key is to tear this set of thoughts apart and understand first and foremost, why you are giving these thoughts power.

• What are you trying to accomplish by doing this?

• Why specifically are you giving these thoughts power as opposed to all the other irrational thoughts you could give power to?

• You dont worry about many things that other people might worry about, so why do you choose to worry about these specific irrational ideas?

When you start to understand yourself and the underlying causes, you can begin to initiate change and growth.

Control Panic Attacks

You can easily control panic attacks by learning to master a few simple keys

First is understanding the process your mind goes through in order to reach a state of panic. In order to do that, open up your word processor and answer these questions:

What thoughts do you think when you are having a panic attack?

What emotions do you feel when in a panic attack state?

How does this begin?

What thoughts trigger it?

Where can you stop this set of thoughts & emotions from happening?

What thoughts could you think that would make it impossible to think the thoughts that trigger a panic attack?

Help With Panic Attacks

Here are some helpful ways you can get your panic attacks under control:

1. Get talking about whats in your head

Often what gives these nasty ideas creating panic attacks power is that they are in your head. If you get these ideas out, get talking to other people - you will see a different perspective on the ideas. Once you start getting these ideas out to other people, they will help you take away the power these thoughts have.

Often irrational thoughts only have power so long as we keep them inside, and when we get them out then other people can help us to work through the irrational thinking.

2. Go for a jog

Going for a run helps to dramatically relieve stress and releases serotonin into your blood, providing a stress relieving effect. Its also excellent at distracting your mind from what is causing the panic attack and putting your mind-body into a different state. One which is more relaxed and prepared to take on whatever is causing you to go into a state of panic.

The best way is when you find yourself entering into this state of mind, just put on your shoes and get out there running. Run until you exhaust yourself if you have to, get your mind off of the thing causing panic and onto running.

3. Do something you love

Often when we are in a high state of stress, one thing that helps to eliminate that is to surround ourselves with positive emotional experiences. Whether you enjoy seeing movies, reading books, playing sports or doing music - find something that you can enjoy which will change your emotional state.

The key is to end the looping that is going on in your head. When in a state of panic we continually play the same thoughts and images over and over again in our heads. When you do something that introduces positive thoughts and emotions - then you can eliminate the panic attack.

Focus on finding positive emotional experiences that can bring you out of the negative emotional state.

4. Watch Comedy

Its very hard to feel both afraid and playful at the same time. Get yourself watching some standup comedy and start laughing at yourself. Find things to enjoy about life and learn to relax.

Causes Of Panic Attacks

If you are suffering from panic attacks, dont be alarmed, there is a solution.

The first thing you need to understand about how panic attacks work is in the words of Marcus Aurelius

"Men are not disturbed by things but by their evaluations of things"

Golden Key To The Causes Of Panic Attacks #1 - Panic comes from the thoughts you hold in your mind

You can quickly put yourself into a state of panic or calm by use of your imagination. When you enter into a state of panic you allow your subconscious mind to run free with its imagination creating all sorts of horrifying scenarios.

The way you are talking to yourself and thinking about things in a state of panic is one of extreme negativity. When you are under a state of panic you are constantly focused on ONE possible scenario, usually extremely unlikely - and ignore any evidence contrary to it.

In short when experiencing a panic attack a person narrows their mental focus to one specific horrifying set of images that they loop continuously in their mind. They play these images over and over again without considering other possible scenarios.

For example, it is possible you could be struck by lightning by sitting at your computer right now, what can prevent you from going into panic about it? Information and beliefs contrary to it. You have lived your whole life without being struck by lightning and so it becomes unbelievable to you that you would be struck by lighting sitting at your computer.

What panic really is, is excessive worrying. Its being unrealistic in your negative evaluations about what could be.