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 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 through the “check for danger” looking to the sides…

As most people with panic attacks know a panic attack is the body’s response to fear. In today’s modern times we don’t specifically have any real dangers to deal with as we had when we were still living in caves. But unfortunately our brains haven’t moved away from that stage of human development and we still react in the same way as the Stone Age people did to fear. The difference is that they had real things to fear, like lions, pumas and other predators. So when out hunting or gathering they had to look out not to become dinner for some fearsome beast.

So this is going to sound ridiculous but… When we feel a panic attack closing up on us we can simply use the “check for danger” technique…

This is how you cure your panic attacks through “check for danger”

You turn your head slowly to the right as much as you can, then you look to the right and observe what you can see in the corner of your eye to the right. Take your time to really try to see everything on your right side. Then turn your head to the left and look and observe what you can see to the left.

Then turn your head to the centre and observe what you see right in front of you.

Normally this stops the attack from coming.

Why does it work?

The reason it works is that we still have such a primitive reaction to fear so the movement to the right and left whilst checking for danger tells the brain that there is nothing to fear and so it shuts down the panic reaction. If you still are really wound up after doing the right left head turns – just repeat them again and make sure that you really observe what you can see.

If you want more tips about letting go of your panic attacks you might want to try the Linden Method (click here) that I link to from this website. Or check back later for more tools and tips on how to cure panic attacks!