Anxiety Panic Attacks - Stopping The Attacks Before They Start

For those of the many people who have suffered from anxiety, they know that anxiety hurts. If you are one of those many who suffer from this condition, you know first hand that this statement is true.

It's no wonder so many people are at the brink of doing just about anything to rid themselves of the pain of panic attacks. This conditions can keep you from enjoying life and all the pleasures that life has to offer if you let it become uncontrollable.

Preventing them from starting in the first place is the best way to rid yourself of anxiety and panic attacks. These problems do not just surface out of nowhere. They are rooted from experiences that we live and think about day in and day out.

For example, before the anxiety or panic arises, try this exercise to help prevent an attack from happening. Take 5 minutes of your day and devote it only to you. Take a comfortable seat and rest your hands in your lap. Till the count of five relax and inhale deeply and slowly. Hold it in. Now, slowly and gently exhale till the count of five.

Practice taking these long, gentle breaths 4-5 times in a row. Focus on the sounds and sensations of your steady breath entering and leaving your body.

Once you have mastered your breathing technique, think of a situation in your life that causes anxiety or panic for you. When the thought enters your head and you feel the anxiety build up, tell yourself that you can handle it and move on. It may take repeating it over and over until you notice that there is zero anxiety. It will work if you believe in yourself and believe it will work.

Lets be clear about one thing, the purpose of this exercise is to keep yourself calm through thoughts that normally would stress you. Try to keep a positive head and do not dwell on the situation itself, but on overcoming the situation.

Believing that every time you come across this situation or a new one similar to it you will live through it without anxiety or panic attacks. Remember to just stay calm and relaxed and feel acceptance of the matter.

Lets examine what acceptance means. Can you feel acceptance? Yes, you can! You feel acceptance when you are in a peaceful state, devoid of struggle, based in the here and now. Being in a state of acceptance, you do not think of the future or the past. You are in the moment, completely present.

When you are in a state of acceptance, you can not resist the thing that makes you anxious. You are so in tuned to the fact that it is there and you do not care. Instead of striving to change the situation, you simply allow yourself to exist and you allow the situation to exist, and let it go. Not fighting it will allow it to go away. And, letting it go away will result in sending your anxiety panic attacks away as well.