Monday, October 5, 2009

Panic Attacks - 3 Tips To Prevent Them Controlling Your Life

By Samantha Adams

Panic attacks for anyone who suffers from them can if they are allowed to take control over their lives. Certainly there are many things that a person can do in order to prevent a panic attack from occurring. However, if the situation becomes a chronic one then medical intervention may be needed. Below we offer some tips on how to stop panic attacks before they do take over your life completely.

Tip 1 - A sensible way of stopping a panic attacks is to learn about breathing correctly. If you learn the right breathing techniques then you will find that you are able to relax far more quickly and easily. Today finding information on the various different breathing techniques and how to do them is very easy, just search online.

However the simplest breathing technique of all is where you find somewhere quiet to sit and relax then start to breathe in and out very slowly and deeply. The slow breathing is telling your body that it is becoming relaxed and calm. Signals are then sent to the adrenal glands which prevents them from producing more adrenalin.

Tip 2 - It may take you some time before you are able to master this particular tip. In order to stop a panic attack one needs to learn how to remove all negative thoughts from one's mind. So what you need to do if a panic attack starts is tell yourself that you can and will prevent it from escalating. Doing this wil help you to then get the situation under control and will help to make your mind more relaxed.

As soon as you stop having negative thoughts you now need to start replacing them with more positive ones. But you should not be thinking about lovely animals or beautiful sunshine. Instead your thoughts should be ones that further assert what you are already thinking. So you should be thinking things like what you have already done has provided the right response to the problem and then carry on with these.

Tip 3 - It is vital that as soon as you begin to feel a panic attack happening that you move away from the source immediately which has triggered the attack in the first plce. Also as soon as you begin to have these feelings you need to be able to recognize what they are and then making just very small changes. These changes can then help you to avoid a similar situation in the future or help you to deal with the panic attacks when they arise.

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