Your Anxiety Cure Could Be 1 Step Away
If you’re currently looking for an anxiety cure, then I’ve got one word for you: sleep.
I lived with severe anxiety for over 17 years, and one of the big things that I focused on that lead to my recovery was sleep. And if you have any kind of anxiety or panic disorder then it won’t be a surprise to you that sleep plays such a big role in how we feel and how severe our anxiety is on any given day.
When my anxiety was at its worst my sleep was almost non-existent. I would sometimes go an entire week on a total of less than an hour of sleep. And that made my anxiety 10 times worse than it would have otherwise been.
And this can easily develop into a vicious circle that’s close to impossible to break out of.
You have anxiety, you can’t sleep, you have more anxiety that you can’t sleep, you sleep even less, and so on, and so on. It can quickly become a nightmare.
But there’s good news.
If you follow a few simple “sleep rules,” you can quickly and dramatically increase the amount of sleep you have, and also increase the quality of the sleep you have. So try sticking to these 3 rules from now on, and I’m sure it’ll help you a lot. Who knows, it may even turn out to be the first step towards finding your very own anxiety cure.
1. Go to bed at the same time each night and get up at the same time each morning. To get truly healthy, restful sleep your body needs to develop a routine. This step is vital.
2. Avoid anything stimulating for an hour before you go to bed. Again, for truly restful, relaxing sleep your body needs to be in a calm state as you drift off. So no exercise, caffeine, or stimulating TV for an hour before bed.
3. Don’t use your bed for anything other than sleep and sex. You want your bed to be a place your mind subconsciously links with relaxation and almost zero activity. So no reading, eating, watching TV, or talking on the phone in bed.
Follow these 3 rules as best you can and you’ll be one huge step closer to finding your anxiety cure.
Stop Panic Attacks With This Quick 1 Step Plan
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If you want to stop panic attacks there a handful of things that you must ensure you’re getting right, before you move onto any of the more complex tactics you might come across.
One of these “musts” is exercise.
Exercise is one of the very best ways to control and to stop panic attacks. This is true for many reasons, some of which are: you will increase your blood flow, meaning more vital nutrients and oxygen are distributed throughout your body; you will work your heart out, which leads to a naturally slow-beating heart when at rest - a real bonus to someone who has extreme anxiety and often suffers with palpitations; you will cause more endorphins to be released by your brain, causing a natural “high” that leads to a happier state of mind and considerably decreased anxiety levels.
So the benefits of exercise are obvious for people who are trying to stop panic attacks. But that doesn’t mean that everyone with severe anxiety and panic-related problems actually get up and do any! And a big part of that, for many people, is not knowing where to start, and not wanting the expense or the inconvenience of things such as gym memberships or buying exercise equipment.
But here’s the great news.
Exercise is physical activity beyond what you would normally do. So that includes walking up stairs, walking further than you currently do, gardening. Pretty much anything!
So you can start to enjoy the benefits of “exercise” right now simply by taking the stairs instead of the elevator, parking your car farther from the store to give you a longer walk, caring for your yard or garden once a week, and so on. You get the picture, I’m sure.
They key here is that there are things you can start doing right now, today, that will genuinely be exercise, and you’ll experience all the benefits I listed just now.
So try making some of these tiny changes right now. It’s one of the most powerful and underused tactics out there when you want to stop panic attacks.
How To Cure Panic Attacks With Rediscovered Hope
Would you like to know how to cure panic attacks by making one simple change to your life? What if I told you there was one thing you could change, right now, and it would give you the power to stop 99% of your anxiety and panic, and as a bonus, also stop the horrible physical symptoms associated with anxiety and panic?
Such a thing exists.
But most people either never use it effectively, or they choose to ignore it because they don’t realise its true power.
This “thing” is hope.
Were you expecting something more spectacular? Something more impressive? Well, get over your disappointment fast, because when you realise the true power of hope, and what it can do for you, you’ll suddenly see that it is spectacular and it is impressive.
When it comes to hope, most people who want to know how to cure panic attacks have one thing in common: they have none of it. No hope. Zero.
Over time, one day at a time, the hope has faded and then finally gone altogether. That’s why so many people with anxiety and panic disorders just live with an acceptance that this is the way their lives will always be.
Don’t be one of those people!
I was one of those people for years and years. But on the day I got my hope back I immediately starting making rapid progress. And what did that do? Well, it gave me more hope, and that caused an even bigger surge of progress.
This cycle of hope and progress causes a snowball effect, and before too long your anxiety and panic can be a thing of the past.
The great thing is, all you have to do right now to get your hope back is just to allow it back into your life. Start being optimistic. Start looking for things to inspire you. I promise you, if you open up your mind and start looking for these things, you’ll find them.
They’re out there, but we’re blind to them while we have no hope. By just believing in your heart that there’s a way through this, you’ll suddenly see things and find things that have been right there, under your nose, all this time.
Hope is the single biggest weapon you have against panic and anxiety. Don’t let it go to waste.
End Panic Attacks By Striking At Their Biggest Weakness: The Fact That They Don’t Exist
The single biggest breakthrough I had when I was trying to end panic attacks was my realisation that my panic and anxiety were imaginary.
That might sound a bit weird to you - my anxiety and panic were imaginary?
Don’t worry, I’ll explain.
I read this book, The Gift of Fear (written by Gavin De Becker), and in it he talked a lot about what fear was, what causes it, and how to control it. It turns out that fear is really just a defence mechanism that has been with us (humans) for tens of thousands of years.
The book also said that despite the fact that most of us think of intense fear as paralysing, it’s actually energising. It doesn’t make us freeze, it makes us act. Genuine fear is there for one reason - to make us aware of something that’s dangerous to us, and to make us act to avoid or escape whatever that danger is.
When I read this in the book I made a big breakthrough.
I suddenly realised that if genuine fear was short-lived like this (and there only to make us act), then the constant, relentless fear I was feeling all day every day as part of my anxiety obviously could not be genuine fear at all.
It was imaginary.
This was my biggest leap forward in my efforts to end panic attacks, and it lead to many more breakthroughs and my eventual full recovery.
I’ve done my best to explain (in my limited time with you) this concept of anxiety-based fear being imaginary, but I really think you’ll benefit a lot from reading The Gift of Fear. So go and get a copy as soon as possible, read it, and experience the same breakthrough I did when I read it.
Like me, it could help you end panic attacks sooner than you think.
Curing Panic Attacks With The Power of Goal Setting
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Curing panic attacks can be a real battle. I know from personal experience. I lived with panic and anxiety for 17 years. I tried pretty much everything you can imagine, and almost none of it produced any positive results.
But the one thing I did that made a huge difference was to take full advantage of the power of goal-setting.
For most of my time battling through panic and anxiety I had goals, of course. For a start, I wanted the panic attacks to stop. That was my number one goal - they were ruining my life. Another of my goals was to feel normal again. I just wanted a normal life, the same as everyone around me had. And then there was another goal - this one to no longer feel fear all day every day.
So I had goals, and I’d been trying to use these goals to inspire me to get better.
But what I didn’t realise was, these goals were too vague and too non-specific for someone curing panic attacks. I mean, how do you measure “feeling normal again”?
It was around the time I realised my goals weren’t specific enough that I heard a motivational speaker explain an exercise you can do. It’s all about writing down your dream day in the future. You put down every detail of how you want your life to be at some chosen point in the future.
In my case, I chose a year in the future, and I wrote 2 pages of how a day in my life would be then. Everything from what I’d eat for breakfast, right through to what time I’d go to bed (and everything in between).
Doing this exercise puts your mind in super-sharp focus, and it will subconsciously start going after the very specific life you outlined in your “dream day in the future” exercise.
So I highly recommend you do this exercise for yourself. It can make a huge difference when curing panic attacks is you dream goal.
Treating Panic Attacks The Easy Way
I lived with severe panic and anxiety for over seventeen years, and during that time I discovered that treating panic attacks is far easier if you can develop a basic understanding of how the mind works.
For me, this was the big breakthrough.
I’m not talking about studying psychology day and night here. I’m talking about learning a few of the basics about how you think, what causes you to feel and act certain ways, and what you can do to change your behaviour and your thoughts.
So that’s how I beat my panic disorder.
But if you’re anything like I was, then you won’t really know where to begin when you set out to learn about all this stuff. And that’s what I’m writing about today. I’m going to make a single book recommendation that I believe can teach you all you need to know about your mind, how it works, and how to get control of it.
The book is called “50 Psychology Classics,” and it’s written by a man called Tom Butler-Bowden.
What’s great about this book is that the author has done all the hard work for you. He’s read hundreds of books on psychology and the human mind, and he’s selected the 50 most important ones. And he’s written one chapter for each of those 50 books, summarising what the book teaches.
So by the time you’ve read this book, you’ll have the knowledge of someone who’s read all 50 of the books it covers. This is great for two reasons. One, you’ll instantly know enough to make treating panic attacks simple. And two, you’ll come across a couple of books that seem very interesting to you and suit your own situation, and you’ll be able to follow up by reading those all the way through.
Learning to understand my mind and how it works was a huge factor in my full recovery, and a large part of it was down to what I learned in this book I’m recommending you read. So go and get yourself a copy today and start benefiting from it the same way I did. When you’re treating panic attacks, I believe this will be your number one resource.
Stopping Panic Attacks With A Single Book?
Stopping panic attacks is not easy. I know from experience; I lived with it for more than 17 years. During that time I was always on the lookout for ways to improve my condition and my quality of life. Most of the things I tried didn’t help at all, but a couple of them did.
What I’m going to talk about next is one of the few things I found that really made a difference and helped in my recovery.
What I’m talking about here is a book. It’s called “50 Self-Help Classics,” and it’s written by a man called Tom Butler-Bowden. What makes this book so different from most others I read in this area is that it’s a book about other books. The author has read hundreds and hundreds of self-help books, looking for the handful that are excellent.
And he took the best 50 books on the subject that he discovered and condensed them all into this one little book. That means that by reading this one book you’ll actually be learning the information from over 50 books. Pretty neat, eh? It’s like stopping panic attacks on turbo!
The reason I recommend this book so strongly to people who are living with panic and anxiety is because so many of the self-help books out there are terrible - a complete waste of your time. But this book, which collects together the ideas and information from the best 50 books out there, contains nothing but great information. The author has done the hard work of reading the books that are terrible so you don’t have to.
I believe you’ll find dozens of nuggets of information in this book that will help you with your panic and anxiety. In fact, if stopping panic attacks is your main goal right now, then I recommend that buying and reading this book is your very next step.
Panic Attack Treatment - A Fool-Proof 3 Step Plan
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When you’re living with panic and anxiety, and you’re desperately looking for an effective panic attack treatment, the best advice I can offer you (based on my own experience with anxiety, and my 17 year hunt for the best way to tackle it) is to create a very simple plan of attack and to stick to it, no matter what.
I know how hard this can be from my own experience, so I’ve put together a simple 3 step plan of attack that you can borrow. I believe that if you follow this plan it will turn out to be the best panic attack treatment you’ve tried.
1. Read two books: The first is “50 Psychology Classics.” The second is “50 Self-Help Classics.” They’re both written by a man called Tom Butler-Bowden.
What I love about these books is that the author has read hundreds of books on self help and on psychology, and he’s selected only the very best ones and condensed all the valuable information from all of them into these 2 little books.
Read these 2 books (this alone will teach you more than you can imagine) and then choose a handful of the books mentioned in them and read those too. You’ll know which ones to choose - they’ll resonate with your own situation, and you’ll know on a gut level what could turn out to be a great panic attack treatment for you.
2. Take notes as you read the books: Jot down anything you think you can apply to your own situation. You’ll find lots, trust me, so don’t worry about that. You’ll know what will work for you when you stumble across it.
3. One by one, begin introducing those things you learned in the books into your life: Pick the most powerful one first, and spend a week trying to make incorporating it a habit. When you feel you’ve made it a part of your routine, then introduce another one, and so on, and so on.
This simple, step by step approach is one that I know will help your situation, if you follow the steps and stick with it. So give it a try, and I’m confident that this little plan of attack will turn out to be the most effective panic attack treatment you’ve tried.
How to Treat Panic Attacks - 3 Great Tips
If you’re anything like I was a couple of years back, then you’d love to know how to treat panic attacks quickly and naturally. In my own case, I’d tried the non-natural route - I’d been on and off of medication for over a year. I’d taken 3 different types of SSRIs (more commonly known as anti depressants), and they had all caused awful side effects that were worse than the anxiety they were intended to treat.
I’d also tried psychiatrists, psychologists, and my family doctor. None of those had helped at all.
Even after all those different approaches I was still left asking myself how to treat panic attacks. My own answer, it turned out, was to begin doing three things, and I’m going to share those 3 things with you right now so that you can give them a try and see if they prove as helpful for you.
They are:
1. Start The Day Right.
The better you behave in the first hour of your day, the less likely you are to slip up with negative thinking, unhealthy eating, or anything else during the rest of the day. When you start the day right, you’ll subconsciously not want to ruin the good start you’ve made. So make the first hour of your day as positive and healthy as you possibly can.
2. Educate Yourself.
Read as much as you can about the subjects that are vital if you want to stop panic and anxiety. These subjects are hope, psychology, and fear. Study them, get to know them, and see the difference it makes when you understand them.
3. Track Your Progress.
The only way to know for sure if you are making progress when you’re trying to treat panic and anxiety is to keep a journal. When you do this you can then look back on your previous entries and see how far you’ve come.
When you’re trying to discover how to treat panic attacks, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and not know what to try next. And that’s why I’ve shared these 3 simple ideas with you. They’re a perfect way to get started, and I’m sure they’ll work for you if you stick with them.
Preventing Panic Attacks With A Vision Board?
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Preventing panic attacks can be very tough, but there’s a great idea I came across a while back that worked for me, and I’d like to share it with you and see if your own situation can benefit too.
This idea is based on something called a “vision board.”
I first heard about vision boards from a more general “self help” guy. He was teaching this idea purely to help people set and visualise their goals in life. But when I heard him explain this idea, I knew that it might also work in preventing panic attacks, and maybe even stopping anxiety and panic disorders altogether.
So, what’s a vision board, I hear you ask!
It’s a collection of photos and/or images that represent your goals, where you’d like your life to be, and what you hope to achieve. These photos and images can either be pinned to a cork board, hung on the wall, or stuck up on your fridge door (as long as they’re somewhere you’ll see them throughout the day). If you spend a lot of time on a computer, you may even want to set these images as your desktop wallpaper!
The idea is this: you find images that remind you of and inspire you to achieve whatever goals you have in life. So if preventing panic attacks for you would mean that you can go on vacations without fear then you might have a picture of a beach, or ski slopes, or mountains - whatever your dream vacation would look like.
If preventing panic attacks would mean that you’d suddenly be free to take up a new hobby you’ve always wanted to try, put up a picture that reminds you of that hobby and how great it would be if you could take part.
You get the idea, I’m sure.
This is a cool psychological trick. Throughout the day you’ll be seeing your dreams and your goals on your vision board, and you won’t even really be aware of anything. But subconsciously you’re mind will be at work. It’ll suddenly be focusing on your dreams and your goals, instead of the worry and anxiety you’d normally be feeling.
So quickly put together your own vision board today, and place it somewhere you’ll see it throughout the day. You might be surprised at how effective this can be in preventing panic attacks.
