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Anxiety conditions (panic attacks, phobias, high anxiety, GAD, OCD, PTSD) are a bad habit, a learned pattern of behaviour. The problem isn't that you have a panic attack or feel highly anxious, as anxiety (and panic for that matter) is a perfectly normal and healthy response to everyday pressure, threat or danger.
Anxiety is our call to action, alerting us that something is wrong. Unfortunately for some of us, we have learnt to trigger this problem solving response at times when it is not warranted, and when this happens out of the blue, when we trigger anxiety for no apparent reason, it's bloody horrible. But it's still a perfectly normal and healthy response, it's still just trying to protect us, even if it is inappropriate at the time. Your anxiety condition may also be restricting or limiting your life to the point where you stop or avoid doing all the things that you used to love to do without any trouble but now find too difficult to face, like going to a cafe, or walking passed your letterbox for example. So getting back to what I was saying, the problem isn't that anxiety or panic turns up, the problem is HOW we respond in the moment that determines whether the horrible but harmless sensations fizzle out to nothing, or whether they spiral out of control! In my four week programme you will take back the territory by learning and applying new attitudes and behaviours towards how you respond to anxiety and panic. In four weeks I would expect my students to be able to disempower panic at will, this is actually the easy part. The more difficult part is removing the underlying high anxiety, this will take a bit more time as we are dealing with habitual patterns of behaviour, and this can take some time to remove, depending on how hard the student is willing to learn and adopt new attitudes and behaviours. Having said that, I would expect that my students will have come along way to removing the underlying anxiety during the four week course (some have healed themselves during this time, most will take a few months). Following the course, I give my students an action plan for them to set off into the sunset and continue to grow and build new non-anxious behaviour. Are you willing to do what it takes? Are you willing to face your false alarms, throw away all the safety crutches and coping strategies and learn to be non anxious again through nothing more than an attitude and behaviour? I ask this because if you are not at the stage where you are willing to do whatever it takes, you will not be ready to do what you have to do! The answer is easy, it's just hard to do because we are dealing with really uncomfortable sensations and emotions, and naturally enough your initial urge will be to avoid or run from them. But to heal yourself you will have to stop running and avoiding, you will have to face them, and you can, especially with me as your personal coach There's no such thing as ‘try’, you either do it or don't, ‘try’ is a noisy way of saying no, and you will surely give up when things get too uncomfortable.... and they will for a very short while, that's the nature of habits! |