Tips For Panic Attacks - Three Powerhouse Strategies For Anxiety and Panic Attack Sufferers
Anxiety and panic attacks can last for a minute or can spread over hours or days and severely affect your life.
It can be sudden, triggered by something simple, or it can build over time as a result of rising confrontation with things that induce your panic symptoms.
Regardless of how they occur or what initiates them, anxiety and panic is manageable and can be treated with great success.
You can live a normal life and not be tied to drugs to make that possible.
Exercise This is a simple but often overlooked approach to handling anxiety.
Exercise produces endorphins, that hormone that induces a feeling of happiness and well being.
Exercise can make such a tremendous difference in your emotional state that it is the very first thing on our list to suggest.
Get your exercise and get it daily! Forget the three times a day thing and go for daily exercise.
You can alternate between exercise forms so that you reduce your boredom and increase your chances of sticking with a regular exercise schedule.
Do whatever you like - kick boxing, jazz dancing, yoga, treadmill walking, swimming, or even stretching.
Just make it a committed effort every day for at least 30 minutes and increase the amount and level of challenge in whatever you choose.
Breathing Anxiety sufferers are terrible breathers and when a panic attack hits they often hyperventilate.
Too much, too fast and too little.
Proper breathing is a skill to learn so don't think you can just breathe more deliberately that you can make a difference.
Check out the various breathing exercises and techniques and establish better breathing habits (we have a great one in our book on anxiety that you can learn and apply easily).
And for a quick fix when you do panic, keep a paper bag with you and breathe into it, slowly and surely.
Diet Be honest - are you eating highly nutritious foods? Keep a food diary for a few days and you'll quickly see exactly what you are eating.
If you are eating good then your physical and mental health will reflect this.
If your diet is poor or lacking in essential nutrients, you may have found a very important keep to what helps feed your anxiety.
Choose high quality food sources.
Organic is not essential but if you can find local sources of organic foods, certainly that would be the best choice.
Green drinks made from fresh produce and a bit of fruit for sweetness and flavor offer a powerhouse of nutrition to start your day and supplement your meals.
Start with these three tips to being a program of improving your life to help address your anxiety and panic attacks.
Once established, look into the many alternative treatment options that are available to help you take control and be rid of your suffering.