How to cure your panic attacks through drinking tea

It is commonly known that drinking tea and coffee can make you more anxious if you are prone to panic attacks. The caffeine in tea and coffee affects our nervous system in a way that might feel similar to when you are experiencing a panic attack. People with panic anxiety generally therefore feel that avoiding those kinds of drinks makes them feel a bit calmer. Chocolate also contains caffeine and can make you feel sensations similar to anxiety especially if you have had dark chocolate. For me this became a bit of a dilemma because I love both chocolate and coffee!

Rooibus Tea – cure to panic attacks?

Well it isn’t really a cure on it’s own, but it will definately give you the opposite effect of normal black tea or coffee – namely a relaxing experience. The African tea Rooibus that is known for calming the nervous system, alleviating colic and helping against allergies is the perfect drink for anxious people. It is also full of antioxidants that helps clean out the toxins in your body. Rooibus has a distinct herbal flavour almost nutty flavour at first, but with some milk and sugar you get used to the taste quickly and it does relax you. It has a deep red colour and is sometimes called red tea. But there are often other plants included if you buy ”red tea” so go for the Rooibus only option.

Chamomile Tea – cure to panic attacks?

Chamomile is probably the most known tea to have a soothing effect on your nervous system. It is given to newborn babys to aliviate tummy ache and is often given as a night time drink to make you sleep better. If you like the sweet taste of chamomile you have here the perfect alternative to Rooibus. I would say though that I find Rooibus more effective in relaxing a worried mind.

It has also been proven that holding cups of hot tea gives you the sensation of safety and calmness!

Peace

Cure panic attacks through breathing

I am sure most people know that you can calm your body through breathing. You can also use breathing as a mean to cure your panic attacks through knowing how to control them. The air that we inhale into our lungs feeds our blood with oxygen and so makes the whole marvel that is our body mechanism work. The body knows that oxygen is vital for its survival and it will do everything it can to keep our breathing going. Why is this important to know?
Well it namely is so that the breathing goes before everything in our body. For example if you are really close to throwing up you can stop yourself by breathing slowly. Why? Because the body priorities the breathing.

How can we use breathing to cure panic attacks?

By telling our body that we need to breath and it will shut down every other action in order to take care of the oxygen. It’s that simple. So just like any other tool presented in this blog the breathing on its own doesn’t actually cure panic attacks but in combination with all the small tips on this blog you will soon be able to control and later cure your panic attacks.

What breathing techniques are there?

There are many but I have chosen to take up what is called “whale breathing” It is a technique used in Yoga and it is very potent when it comes to calming your body.

How do you whale breathe?

First you want to either sit straight in your back but still comfortably or lie down on your back. Then you start taking notice of your normal breathing through your nose. Notice if your breathing is shallow or if you are breathing down into your diaphragm. If you are calm and breathing slowly you can count till 9 on your inhalation if not start by counting to 7.

Here’s how you whale breathe.

You inhale and exhale though your nose.

You inhale slowly with little air counting to either 7 or 9.

You hold your breath counting to 2 and then you exhale slowly with little air counting to 7 or 9 depending on what you started with. You hold for 2 and then inhale again and so forth.

The reason I say you should inhale and exhale with little air is that if you take a too big breath you are not going to be able to count as far.
Then there is another thing you have to do when you whale breath…. You have to draw the breath down towards the back of your mouth inside your nose so that you almost make a snoring noise. This is the sound of the whale! The reason you are making that sound is that you when drawing the air downwards you will be able to draw your breath even if you have a blocked nose. It is also very useful to control that your breath is slow. If you try to breathe this way fast, your air gets stuck in the back of your mouth. Try it! Basically it is just a way of controlling that your breathing gets into your lungs slowly so that the body has time to take care of the oxygen that you so kindly provide for it.
It has a powerful effect on panic attacks and if you continue breathing through the attack. Concentrating on the breathing only, you notice how your body feels calmer and your mind lets go of all the racing thoughts.

Why has it an effect on the thoughts?

Because when you count, your mind is up taken by the counting – as we know the mind can only concentrate on one thing at a time. We just have to teach it to obey us! Good luck!
And if you have the opportunity, you should definitely try Yoga – have you ever heard about a Yogi with panic attacks?

Cure your panic attacks through affirmations

So I have talked about thinking through a line of thoughts and not get stuck on one thought like a stuttering record. So now it is time for some affirmations. An affirmation is a way to talk to your subconscious (see this post) mind to make it change how you feel. Basically you are telling the subconscious mind good things to make you feel good. It can look like this: “I am happy, healthy and wealthy, I am happy healthy and wealthy, I am happy healthy and wealthy“

what does an good affirmation look like

An affirmation can, or should be repeted over and over again and must always use a positive language if you want a positive effect. You must also state it in the present because you want to feel in the present. If you say “ I will be happy healthy and wealthy” your mind just records that as something it will do in the future – and as we know, the future never arrives… We must also never use negative words. An affirmation like “ I am no longer anxious” will not work as your subconscious brain relates the word “no” as a negative and “anxious” as a negative. The effect will then probably be the opposite of what you want. Learning to speak to your mind, with the right vocabulary is very important. I will take up the use of language in a future log, but for now let’s concentrate on positive affirmations.

Cure your panic attacks through positive affirmations

Here’s a few examples:

“I am happy, healthy and wealthy”

“I am in control of mental state”

“I am calm, relaxed and mentally stabile”

“My inner strength is immense”

“I love and I am loved”

I am sure you can come up with some more that fits your thought better. When I used to have an anxiety attacks I would sit down and write down as many affirmations as I could on piece of paper as writing them down keeps you busy enough not to side track on unhealthy thoughts. Remember the anxious person is often very lazy with actually doing something about his or her anxiety, perhaps thinking that nothing helps. That line of thought is wrong…. It is proven that actually doing something to distract the anxiety helps.

It is important to do affirmations when you feel an attack coming but they are also great for prevention of attacks. It is proven that you learn better when you are calm and we are learning to change our way of thinking. And during a panic attack, calm is probably the last thing you are. I therefore suggest that the best time to speak to your subconscious mind is just before you go to sleep. Then you are (hopefully) calmer and more susceptible to affirmative influences and hypnosis. So why not repeat an affirmation over and over again before you go to sleep every night. And you will sleep better and wake up anxiety free! Tomorrow I will talk about breathing exercises to calm yourself down.

The tools I provide in this blog, I believe, is the only way to cure your panic attacks and anxiety and If you want further help and a whole study course in the subject you might want to try the Linden Method that I sort of promote in this blog (I get a little fee if you click on this link and then buy the product on the Linden page, enough for me to keep this blog running.) It is a well known and very effective method that has cured 100.000 or more of their panic attacks and anxiety. It costs $109 that you might perceive as a lot of money but if you think about it, what is 109 dollars in comparison to the anxiety you are experiencing and if there was a pill for 109 dollars that cured your panic attacks and anxiety completely – wouldn’t you buy it??? Anyway the Linden Method offers a full money back guarantee if you are not happy with the product, although I can guarantee you will be.

Cure your panic attacks and bad thoughts with “think through”

So if all your feelings stem from your thoughts you might want to start sorting out what you are thinking about.

Are you thinking thoughts that are creative and healthy?

Most likely the answer to that question is: NO, otherwise you wouldn’t’ be reading this blog. Perhaps you already know that you should be thinking positive thoughts but your brain just won’t allow it. Fair enough.

So if you are stuck in a bad thought pattern how do you break out of it?

You are going to have to start reasoning with your brain. It’s not very easy to begin with but you will soon get the hang of it.

So how do we start?

Well first we must think through our thoughts – often a panicked person get stuck in one line of thought. For example “I might get poisoned if I eat an apple without washing it” the thought pattern for an anxious or panicked person looks like this: I’m going to get poisoned from eating that apple, I have already touched it and maybe it’ll go through my fingers into my bloodstream and then I will get poisoned, I’ll probably will panic about it, ok, now I am panicking, shit I might have got poisoned already, I am feeling a bit funny, I wonder what it is, It’s the intoxication coming, I’m going to get poisoned, I can feel it, I’m getting poisoned. And on it goes.

What about if we changed that line of thought to this:

I’m going to get poisoned from eating that apple. Ok, so I think I am going to get poisoned from eating that apple. Did I eat the apple? Yes. How big is the likelihood of someone getting poisoned from eating that apple without washing it? Very small as apples are made to be eaten. What if I still get poisoned? Well I have to go to hospital. OK. So then what? I will probably feel really bad and have like a panic attack when I go. Ok so then what. That would be really bad. Maybe, but will it kill me? NO. Ok then, so I am going to feel shit for a few hours and then it will go away. Is that the end of the world? No. Alright then what was I worrying about in the first place.

This is an example of thinking trough a thought pattern and not getting stuck in “what if I get poisoned”. Anxious people often fail to see the big picture and need some help in sorting out their thoughts to be able to see that.
The first step to getting anxiety free is to think through your thoughts the faster you can take care of your bad thoughts the faster you can start thinking good thoughts.

This was the first think lesson in the series: Cure your panic attacks by nailing your bad thoughts ass!

Check back tomorrow for another tip!

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway 8-CD set: Dynamic Techniques for Turning Fear, Indecision, and Anger into Power, Action, and Love is a good book/CD-set on how to do start thinking with better control. Susan Jeffers describes the matter in easy terms and if you do the exercises they really make a difference on your thinking patterns. She talks about our chattering monkey… that voice inside our head that makes us think bad thoughts, and how to shut it up!

Cure your panic attacks with this simple message…. Be positive.

You probably have heard those two words a thousand times but the reason they are worth repeating is because their meaning is the only way to keep sane. I understand that we are not all “happy pigs” laughing through our day not letting anything budge our state of blissful happiness… Me, I both wish I was a “happy pig” and I don’t. Happy pigs live their little lives without developing or really getting to know themselves or others. They exist almost without knowing it themselves like a spoke in the wheel that someone else (higher being, society, religion or whatever) is controlling. When they die they either just become a pile of dirt or repeat the whole scenario in a new life, depending on you see things. The troubled mind however has to deal with stuff that actually makes you wiser and more mature. One might say you have the upper hand in the long run if you have a “troubled mind” as getting through anxiety, depression and OCD will make you a much stronger and more balanced person. A person that knows how to control his or her own happiness and cure his panic attacks! Isn’t that awesome! This sound so shallow I know… I need to go into more depth.

So, back to those words… Be positive.

Does those words cure panic attacks? Yes!

The importance of those words comes when we get to know our brain.
But first here’s another famous quote: “I think therefore I am”
Those words spoken by the famous French philosopher René Descartes makes very much sense in this argument. In interpreting them we have to begin with looking at what they mean. The way I interpret them is “I exist because I think” If I didn’t think I wouldn’t exist. It’s that simple. To others, I might exist even If I was in a coma – but not to me.

So what does that tell us?

Well that our thoughts create our life and existence. So if our thought creates our existence we should be able to control our existence completely right? RIGHT!

Curing our panic attacks by controlling our thoughts

Controlling our thoughts is a lot easier to say than to do. Yes I know.

But to begin with we need to know how our thoughts work, or actually how our brain works.

I am going to try to explain in very few words how a thought becomes feeling in our body and try to make it understandable. It is so that all our feelings in the body stem from a line of thoughts. That’s a fact based on the “I think therefore I am” statement. If you know you are alive you do feel, so that fact makes sense. Are you with me?

Now to the brain…

Good and bad thoughts

We have a conscious and a subconscious brain. Fact. The subconscious brain takes care of all our bodily functions such as metabolism, breathing, cell production, the heart pumping the blood and healing of cuts and bruises of our skin etc. The subconscious brain is very good at its job and works 24 hours a day on keeping us alive. It built the body and takes care of it without need for instructions. The conscious mind is the bit we use to think with. It is the conscious mind that tells the subconscious mind how to react in different situations. For example by seeing something that we perceive as dangerous the conscious mind sends a warning up to the subconscious mind that in return triggers the adrenaline so that we can run away from the danger. The subconscious does not reason, it simply carries out the instructions from the conscious mind. We can’t really expect it to reason either as it has so many other things to take care of. This cooperation works very good when our conscious mind sends the right signals to the subconscious mind, but what happens when the conscious mind doesn’t make the right decisions? Well since the subconscious mind doesn’t reason it simply carries out the instructions of our thoughts. So when we think that something really bad is going to happen when we leave the house in the morning or better put – we believe that something bad is going to happen when we leave the house in the morning, because our subconscious mind doesn’t reason, it takes our warning as reality and makes us feel very bad. So if we are convinced about something, good or bad, the subconscious mind thinks that’s the law and abides. Another example is you thinking you’re getting a heart attack when you are having a panic attack – and se and behold, your heart is starting to beat double beats… Why… Because you told your subconscious mind you were having a heart attack and it simply obeyed your wishes… So you are already controlling your subconscious mind with your bad thought. Now to the good part… You start controlling your thoughts and you will control how you feel.

A lot of my information on the subconscious mind I have got from this book

if you click on the book and buy it, you too can become a master of your subconscious mind. Joseph Murphy is one of my favorite writers on the subject and this book will change your life guaranteed!

Or.. Stay tuned for how to control your thoughts tomorrow!