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 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!

Welcome to cure panic attacks 2.

Really the site should be called cure panic attacks you too! Because this is where you find out how to cure your panic attacks without medicines with nasty side effects or 3 years of therapy that will cost you a fortune.

Yes it is true there is a way to cure panic attacks!

Yes there are many tools available for you to use in combating your panic disorder I will take up a few on this blog. But before I start telling you about it I want to tell you a bit about myself. I first started experiencing panic attacks after having my first child. When my boy was about one year old we went to a restaurant. And after eating a piece of bread I suddenly thought I was going to die. I do not kid you! It felt as if I couldn’t focus my eyes on anything and the world was spinning around me. I looked down and it felt as if I was going to fall over. I was shaking, sweating and my heartbeat was racing. Then the adrenaline started to flow in my spine and I got repeated rushes running up my spine as if I had taken some horrible drug that took over my body. I literally thought I was having some sort if seizure. I ran out to the car with everyone in the restaurant looking at me as if I was crazy. My husband paid and ran after me. We called a doctor and described the symptoms and he said that it was a common panic attack. Well that’s how it all started about 9 years ago.

What did the doctors say to me about panic attacks?

My husband and I had private medical care so I got the best help in the country for my panic problems. I went to high class therapists, cognitive behaviour therapists and hypnosis. It all helped a little bit but not getting rid of the panic attacks. The mystery for me was the strange the way they had started. It was literally as if something snapped and at a flick of a button, that suddenly, I had panic attacks. All the doctors wanted to explore my life before the panic attacks… They were saying – surely you must have had some tendencies towards this behaviour before… But the truth is no I hadn’t. I had always been a very confident woman that would say to anyone with panic attacks or anxiety “pull yourself together” or “stop that nonsense now” Well I know now, that saying those kinds of things is not very helpful and will only make the person more insecure, as happened to me.

Panic attacks stop you living your life

What happened to me with my panic attacks was that I more and more started to make my comfort zone smaller. I was afraid to go to places away from my neighbourhood – going to the supermarket was shear hell for example. I started thinking that things that I ate would trigger a panic attack or anxiety. I stopped drinking coffee and tea as they would make my anxiety level higher. I didn’t eat chocolate or any sweets. I only ate what I called “safe foods” that was plain foods like bread, rice, eggs or carrots. I read the labels of everything I bought in case there was something that I imagined would trigger the anxiety. As you can imagine my whole life was controlled by the anxiety and panic attacks. Basically I thought anything could trigger a panic attack. For instance If I had seen a fly on the bred bag, on the plastic, not on the actual bread, I wouldn’t eat any of that loaf in case that fly would have contaminated the bread with something that might trigger the attacks. If I dropped a garment of clothing on the floor taking it out of the washing machine I would rewash that whole load to make sure nothing that might trigger a panic attack had got into the fabric to later get absorbed by my skin to give me a panic attack. You might see how incredibly twisted and complicated my life suddenly became. Because I was constantly living in fear I also avoided anything that would make me scared which included watching the news on TV or any film with something remotely scary in the storyline. I was on adrenaline blocking medicines and a high dose of anti depressants. For a while there I was a complete slave to my fear and my brain.

Lucky am I that I found a way to take back the control over my brain and body!

How I cure d my panic attacks!

I made the realisation that panic attacks are caused by the memory of fear in our brain. We all have a conscious and subconscious mind. The conscious mind is the bit of the brain we use when we think – it is where we reason and make decisions. Those decisions are sent to the subconscious mind where they get executed in the way we decided. The subconscious mind is the part of the brain that make our inner organs work, heal our skin after a cut or bruise, make sure we continue breathing and stay alive when we are asleep and has control of all our fear hormones like adrenaline for instance. The subconscious mind is awesomely powerful! Imagine that it takes care of all our functions in the body and heals our cuts and bruises even though we don’t tell it too! It is constantly awake and working for us. But it does not reason. This is very important to know! If you tell your subconscious mind something it will behave exactly as you tell it. That is why you in your anticipation of fear believing you are going to get a panic attack also get one when you do the thing that you feared in the first place. But don’t worry because knowing your subconscious mind is where your power lies….

What if you could tell your subconscious mind to not be afraid!!! And because it does not reason it would be so! What if you simply programmed your subconscious mind to obey your wishes and so you would cure your panic attacks!

Do you think you can do it?

I did!

If I did it so can you!

Wouldn’t it at least be worth a try?

After all what have you to lose… In my opinion the choice of living controlled by your panic attacks isn’t really an option….

There is a method to cure panic attacks… A training program for your brain!

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