Your heart is racing, your chest is tightening and your mouth is going dry.  You suddenly feel the world collapsing around you.  You can’t stand the situation and you just have to get away.  Yes, you are having another panic attack, you know it and no matter what you do you just can’t stop it.  Finally after this wave of panic and anxiety finishes coursing through your body and you begin feeling calm again, that’s when it hits you, how can something so small like a dog, the dark, this small space, work, or whatever the trigger seems to be; how can it cause you so much uncontrollable fear?

You are probably well aware that a panic attack is a ‘fight or flight’ response to a perceived threat. The reason the human brain responds like this goes back to our prehistoric past where humans needed their bodies to respond quickly to a perceived physical threat. Hey, if they didn’t react fast enough, well let’s just say the outcome was going to be less then desirable.  So fight or flight is and always has been necessary.

Beside emotional there has to be a physical explanation to this right?  RIGHT!  What new research is telling us is that people’s mental activity during a panic attack is suddenly moving to the mid brain and that is when we see the heightened state of fear and panic. Basically, a separate part of your brain gets busier during a panic attack.  The problem, as you well know, is that once the panic attack starts and that heightened state of fear begins, it is extremely challenging to calm yourself down. In order to restore calm you would need the brains mental activity to change. This is why deep breathing really doesn’t work in helping people control a panic attack. All deep breathing does is try and restore calm to the body.  Trying to mentally calm the body is like shutting the gate after the horse has bolted.   Good luck with that!

Your brain is the command center and that’s where the change needs to happen. During a panic attack your brain has moved into panic mode and in order to normalize it you need to learn how to switch your mental activity back to the rational part of your brain. What’s more is that you need to learn how to do so in a split second, regardless of where you are or what you are doing.   Sounds complicated?  Well it is not. When someone feels reassured that they are safe the mental activity reverts back to the forebrain.  Is it doable even in intense situations?  You Betcha!

Of course this isn’t something than can be accomplished with a simple pill, in fact why would you want to.  Just think if you were in a critical situation and felt a whopper of a panic attack coming on.  You then find yourself reaching into your little magic bottle of pills only to find out its empty!  Whatcha gonna do now?  Besides, refilling those bottles of pills EVERY month adds up really quick.  You could be using that money to get ahead in life.  No you want a natural technique that you can call on at all hours of the day or night and never have to worry about running out.  Natural techniques have become the heart of various anxiety programs across the country.  Most are “pill-free” and teach different methods of combating panic attacks.  When selecting an anxiety program be careful not to invest in one that focuses primarily on deep breathing and meditation (as we have already discussed).  It’s hard to relax when you are in a full blown panic attack.  Instead invest in one that teaches you natural techniques that stop panic attacks before or as they start (it’s easier to blow out a match than a full blown fire).

If you are interested in a program that focuses on controlling and switching where the brain is handling the mental activity, thus attacking the panic attacks fuel you may want to try “The One Move Technique™” from Panic Away.

The One Move Technique™ teaches you to feel safe in a very simple and easy to apply manner. The One Move is called so because it is in effect a movement of mental activity.  It is a technique that moves mental activity away from the impulsive mid brain back to the forebrain.   That’s it, you’re done and so is your panic attack.  The “One Move Technique™”  is part of the Panic Away program.

For more information on the Panic Away program and its “One Move Technique™ click here