Coping With Anxiety Attacks - How to Control Your Anxious Thoughts In 3 Simple Steps
When a panic attack is initiated the anxiety levels in your body are going through the roof.
It is these extremely high levels of anxiety that trigger the onset of a panic attack.
So if you can get to the root cause and try to control your anxious thoughts, then coping with anxiety attacks becomes all that much easier.
Let me explain..
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If you are going about your day, everything seems alright with the world, you are happy and content, and then all of a sudden, something triggers an anxious thought.
Obviously anxious thought processes are not confined to panic attack sufferers as they happen to most people.
However what makes the sufferer different is that this anxious thought becomes a seed of worry, and this seed keeps on being replayed over and over again in the sufferers mind ( a bit like a stuck record) causing even more worry and this build up of worry eventually manifests a full blown panic attack.
What most non-sufferers do in this situation is to take that anxious thought, acknowledge it for what it is, and put it in a pigeon whole or extinguish it altogether and move on.
This is done in the blink of an eye and is almost done without thought.
Therefore, to the non-sufferer it is second nature.
So you see, the key to coping with anxiety attacks is to be able to control your thought processes as and when they occur.
This is what you would call the observe, trust and move technique.
By this I mean observe the anxious thought, trust that nothing will come of it, trust that things will turn out absolutely fine, and trust it enough to let it go.
Finally move on from the thought by concentrating on something else.
If you can manage to do this then coping with anxiety attacks suddenly becomes a whole lot easier.
If you can try to replace the anxious thought with a positive thought then this is a great coping strategy.
Especially if you can focus 100% on the now! So to sum up: Remember O.
T.
M Observe Trust Move Using these simple 3 steps will help to dramatically eliminate all anxious thoughts from your mind and by using this method on a daily basis; you will indeed find that by nipping the root causes in the bud you will see that by coping with anxiety, attacks will occur much less frequently.
It is these extremely high levels of anxiety that trigger the onset of a panic attack.
So if you can get to the root cause and try to control your anxious thoughts, then coping with anxiety attacks becomes all that much easier.
Let me explain..
..
If you are going about your day, everything seems alright with the world, you are happy and content, and then all of a sudden, something triggers an anxious thought.
Obviously anxious thought processes are not confined to panic attack sufferers as they happen to most people.
However what makes the sufferer different is that this anxious thought becomes a seed of worry, and this seed keeps on being replayed over and over again in the sufferers mind ( a bit like a stuck record) causing even more worry and this build up of worry eventually manifests a full blown panic attack.
What most non-sufferers do in this situation is to take that anxious thought, acknowledge it for what it is, and put it in a pigeon whole or extinguish it altogether and move on.
This is done in the blink of an eye and is almost done without thought.
Therefore, to the non-sufferer it is second nature.
So you see, the key to coping with anxiety attacks is to be able to control your thought processes as and when they occur.
This is what you would call the observe, trust and move technique.
By this I mean observe the anxious thought, trust that nothing will come of it, trust that things will turn out absolutely fine, and trust it enough to let it go.
Finally move on from the thought by concentrating on something else.
If you can manage to do this then coping with anxiety attacks suddenly becomes a whole lot easier.
If you can try to replace the anxious thought with a positive thought then this is a great coping strategy.
Especially if you can focus 100% on the now! So to sum up: Remember O.
T.
M Observe Trust Move Using these simple 3 steps will help to dramatically eliminate all anxious thoughts from your mind and by using this method on a daily basis; you will indeed find that by nipping the root causes in the bud you will see that by coping with anxiety, attacks will occur much less frequently.
