Dr.
Victor Frankl, I believe is the one who coined the term paradoxical intention.
I believe that you can cure anxiety attacks with it, permanently.
Let me explain a little bit about paradoxical intention.
My understanding is that if you try to control anxiety attacks by riding it out, or breathing through it, or willing your body to stop the sensations or your mind to stop thinking or any of these methods, you can actually make the attack stronger.
Does that seem like it could be true for you? That your attempts at stopping or 'staving off' or controlling your attacks may have ensured they actually happened and that they lasted for longer and longer? So, what if you tried the opposite, and told your anxiety attacks, "ok, do your worst".
"Let's see what you've got".
"I don't have all day here - you have 30 seconds to make me faint, and them I'm getting back to my day".
What do you think would happen then? Does just the thought of it scare you? Well, anxiety attacks are very scary things.
The racing thoughts (horrible thoughts that no one would ever want to think) and the constant squirts of adrenaline into your bloodstream that make you feel like you are going to explode! I know, I've been through it, but I don't go through it anymore.
And I haven't had any sort of attack for years.
I do occasionally have scary thoughts that rise up, completely unbidden in my mind and try to get a footing, and if they did, oh my gosh, I'd be worrying about them like crazy.
But now that I have several years of successfully short-circuiting these thoughts I am confident in my ability to do it every time, and so they don't stick around or bother me.
I can laugh at them now.
I want this for you.