Learning to seek self understanding and using daily auto-suggestion, 'affirmations' to help you in handling and stopping anxiety attacks actually works.
Consider this with a grain of salt but please, consider this.
Can you cause yourself an anxiety attack on purpose? You must think that I am crazy but I tried this once and it really helped.
There are a number of activities that are available to you which will help you to handle anxiety or panic attacks.
You will need to find the ones that are right for you.
In my experience, there are many possibilities that are overlooked due to negative first impressions.
My first impression of the idea to purposefully cause an anxiety attack was pretty much what you would expect.
'That its just crazy.
' It was really not that easy.
Plus, what I learned from the experience was immensely useful and particularly enlightening.
I learned so much about myself.
Things that I would have never even considered had I not tried it.
If you have ever had an anxiety or panic attack then you know you would pretty much do almost anything to avoid another attack.
It was from this very notion that I came up with the idea.
It was a lot like the old 'Face your fears' kind of mentality.
I really hate being afraid.
After my second attack I realized that the first one was not a fluke.
So, instead of dreading in anticipation of the next one to come to me; I made the firm decision to face it on my terms.
To try and cause myself a kind of controlled attack.
It is not so easy.
It was also kind of ridiculous but I was determined to beat this problem one way or another.
Self understanding can truly do wonders for just about anything that bothers you.
You know yourself best, with very few exceptions.
You will need to make changes to your personality and really try, do not just go through the motions.
You will only be cheating yourself.
Alright, here goes nothing.
Auto-suggestion is really just a better term for describing Daily Affirmations.
Okay, this is why earlier I mentioned that many great possibilities are overlooked due to bad first impressions.
This really helped me and I believe it can help anyone in most any situation.
You are going to need to envision a person that is confident and decisive.
Then you will want to become like that person.
So here is where this all comes together.
The number one thing that most people who suffer from anxiety or panic symptoms do is perpetually observe their life in expectation of another attack.
This is in its own way an extremely powerful auto-suggestion.
If you believe that you are going to have another attack then you will.
Worrying about having another anxiety or panic attack leads to more anxious thoughts and feelings.
This only increases your potential for another meltdown.
Now, when you do have an anxiety or panic attack you are going to need a plan in place.
Know what you are going to say and do before the next one comes.
You can use this one but its best to create your own.
It can be similar.
Write it down on a piece of paper and keep it with you at all times.
Once it begins, you begin with your statements.
" This is only an attack.
I have had these before.
It will pass and I will live on.
" It is important that you just accept it.
Trying to manhandle the attack usually makes them much more intense.
Slow your breathing and say out loud; "I have had these attacks before and they have never killed me.
They cannot ever kill me because I am stronger than they are and everything will be fine.
" Say this again, "Its going to be okay, Its okay, its okay.
The panic is fading away like it always does.
It will pass.
" That was what I kept telling myself until I found that I was handling and stopping anxiety attacks as they came.
Eventually, like anything on your first try, you get better with practice.
And with practice you get more control.
Once you achieve some control, there comes confidence.
Confidence is the reward you get from this accomplishment.
It is an incredible and very liberating feeling.
Even for struggling against everyday stress these skills are excellent with helping to settle anxiousness and ease emotional discomfort.
Once you begin to feel the attack fading, picture that confident person.
See yourself becoming that person.
You absolutely can alter your own behavior through creative visualization and auto-suggestion(Daily Affirmations) if you are persistent.
You must say your personalized auto-suggestions out-loud every morning while looking in the mirror.
Put Saturday Night Live out of your mind unless it helps you during an attack.
If you are consistent and believe when you do these things, you will get results.
These skills combined with your best efforts will help you in handling and stopping anxiety attacks.
They will eventually become second nature.
There is a lot more but this is a bit long winded.
Keep your confidence up, build on top of it everyday, and you will get stronger than your fears.