Remove Potential Panic Attacks by Moving into the Internal Territory Immediately

You feel a spark of fear; a spark of emotional discomfort inside – and you move straight into it.  You put yourself right in the centre of it as soon and fully as possible.

You do not look for distractions in the outside world.  You do not try telling yourself positive things.  You do not attempt to forcefully relax.  All of these are denial strategies that will lead, paradoxically, to the very thing you do not want to happen.

No.  What you do is move straight into the middle of the feeling and stay there for as long as the feeling persists.  If you do this it will disappear of its own accord.  It will flow through and out of you.

When your Unconscious sees you do this repeatedly it loses the fear of fear that causes panic attacks and it learns to accept the flow of the different types of energy that come with being alive.  There is no search for the cause of an alleged major internal thinking problem.  There is no need to find out why you suffer while others do not.

Our brain and body are mapping systems.  Their job is to map the external world and tell us where we are safe or not and move towards the safe and away from the dangerous in the outside world.

Frozen anxiety responses, emotional responses we trap within our bodies, are intense – so intense they cause our mapping systems to map them as if they were dangerous external territory albeit they are inside of us – as if they were real world events.

Once our own internal emotional responses are mapped in this way we make it our business to avoid these internal parts of ourselves; we act and dislike these parts of ourselves just as we would a dangerous external land.

If you have an emotional disorder of any kind you will be aware of a ‘place inside’ you do not like.  People who have never had an emotional disorder may have difficulty in understanding this concept.  When you approach emotional energy trapped inside you may notice it is ‘located’ in  a specific place.

This could be an illusion created by your accessing different parts of your brain, but I suspect it is also due to the fact certain types of energy are stored in certain places in and around the body.

Overcoming a well-embedded panic attack reaction is hard work; but the question for ex-sufferers is how do they stop it coming on again?  Here is the answer once again:

• move straight into the fear and stay there immediately.

This stops the internal maps of avoidance being built; gives your brain and body the right to do what they are naturally designed to do: feel it out.  I once suffered with panic attacks; I no longer do.  Neither will you if you teach yourself to habitually do this as soon as fear shows up.

Regards – Carl