What would your life be like if you DIDN'T struggle with anxiety or panic?
- What would you do if you KNEW you could handle it? What would you attempt if you had nothing to fear?
- How would it be to stop the scary, anxious, thoughts that run through your head all day and finally quieting your mind?
- What if you didn't care how far you were from home or your "safe place"?
- It’s a world of difference socializing with people and never wondering if you might have to make up an excuse to leave unexpectedly because of your anxiety.
- What if travel wasn't so hard? If you could drive or fly wherever you wanted to, where would you go?
- What relationships would you start or improve?
- No more feelings of unreality or depersonalization…living in the NOW is really what life should be about.
- Could you finally pursue your dream job?
- Would you wake up in the morning looking forward to what the day holds instead of apprehension or fear?
- What kind of role model would your children have?
- No more waking up with anxiety and finally getting some rest.
- No more medications for anxiety with harmful or bothersome side effects.
From that first attack, you’ve learned to interpret your feelings of anxiety (sometimes even very minor anxiety or stress that everyone feels) as a threat.
When you feel you’re threatened, it activates your body's “fight or flight” response, which is nature’s way of protecting you. Within fractions of a second, hormones pump through your body and prepare you to fight off a dangerous predator, or run away as fast as you can…to fight or flee.
This is a GREAT response if you’re actually under attack or in danger.
If you see a vicious dog running at you from the corner of your eye, you WANT your heart already pumping so you can run away fast.
You WANT adrenaline flowing through your body so you can fight it off if necessary.
You WANT your hearing to be heightened, and your vision hyper focused, so you pay attention to and focus on your threat.
But when you’re getting a haircut, or in line at the grocery store, or in traffic, and there’s no REAL threat, you don’t want or need any of that!
In fact, all it does is scare you and make you uncomfortable. Your heart pounds for seemingly no reason. You feel like you’re losing control of your body as the hormones surge through your muscles. Your vision gets blurry, your hands and feet tingle, and your palms sweat, all while thoughts race out of control through your head…
But your mind is making a huge mistake!
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