Overcoming Anxiety And Panic Attacks Quickly, Safely And Permanently

If you are looking for a permanent solution to overcoming anxiety and panic attacks, then you could not have arrived at a better place. Regardless of the nature of your anxiety condition, whether it be generalized anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder or obsessive compulsive disorder it is important for you to understand that your condition is 100% curable. All it takes is a bit of time (I went from crippling anxiety to fully cured in about 8 months) and putting into practice certain fundamental lifestyle changes.

I have personal experience with anxiety and panic attacks and I know how horrific they can be. At one point I experienced such severe brain zaps, that I was convinced there was something wrong with my brain. I saw doctor after doctor and each time the diagnosis was the same. I just had anxiety, which although can and often does feel absolutely horrific, is nevertheless a completely benign condition and it cannot harm you.

The fact that anxiety is harmless has been medically and conclusively proven time and time again. Yet be that as it may, anxiety in its various forms is really something we would all rather live without, and I was no exception. Finally, after a full 2 years of agonizing and frustrating anxiety, I discovered the Linden Method and everything changed. It took time for the Linden Method to cure my anxiety completely, but upon implementing the Linden Method I noticed results almost immediately.

What Would Your Life Be Like Without Your Anxiety Condition? Really Consider This For A Moment.

Think about those terrible symptoms you experience on a day to day basis. Those really nasty scary feelings: rapid heart beat, shortness of breath, shaking, tension head aches, depression, depersonalisation, heart palpitations, the list is endless. Wouldn’t you like these horrible sensations to be gone from your life permanently? Well I am here to tell you that there are some very successful programs available today that can help you to achieve this. By far the two most popular programs available today for overcoming anxiety and panic attacks are The Linden Method and Panic Away.

How Can The Linden Method And Panic Away Show You How To Overcome Anxiety And Panic Attacks?

To understand how the Linden Method and Panic Away can teach you how to overcome anxiety, it helps to understand a little about what causes anxiety disorder. Every anxiety and panic attack sufferer, without exception, has a condition which affects a small organ in the center of the brain called the ‘Amygdala’. It is now a scientifically proven fact that this organ is 100% responsible for triggering the anxious response. People with anxiety disorder have an amygdala which has been reset to a level of anxiety which is inappropriate and higher than normal. The reason this happens is because the sufferer has developed a subconscious anxious habit. The sufferer’s subconscious mind has become so used to being anxious, that the amygdala simply adopts this anxious behavioral condition as the new norm. The clip below briefly explains how the amygdala causes anxiety.

Whether you suffer from panic attacks, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias (social, agoraphobia etc), these are all conditions which give rise to INAPPROPRIATE anxiety and they all have two things in common, namely, they are ALL caused by the amygdala and they are ALL behavioral conditions. It is very important that you understand the following:

Anxiety And Panic Attacks Are A Subconscious Habit!

Overcoming Anxiety And Panic Attacks Requires That You MUST Eliminate The Subconscious Habit.

Scientists have confirmed that the amygdala is 100% responsible for the forming of the subconscious anxious habit. The NIMH and many other research institutions regularly publish their findings on this issue. To cure anxiety disorder the amygdala must be addressed directly. This is exactly what the Linden Method and Panic Away do and this is why these programs succeed where other treatments fail. Conventional treatments often seek either to hide the symptoms of anxiety using medication, or to attempt to address the sufferer’s anxiety through psychological therapy which more often than not entails discussing with the sufferer, the events or circumstances in the sufferer’s life which are supposedly the cause of the anxiety disorder.

This is HUGELY counter productive because it causes the sufferer to focus on his anxiety disorder thereby making it CONSCIOUS, when overcoming anxiety and panic requires that you do the exact opposite, ie, you have to engage in activities that divert you mind away from your anxiety and refrain from engaging in activities that make your anxiety more conscious.

To cure your anxiety you must eliminate the subconscious habit by replacing the anxious behavior you have learnt with new non-anxious behavior so that a new habit is formed, a non-anxious habit. This is what the Linden Method and Panic Away teach a person to do, though by using different methods to achieve it. As a precursor to understanding how these programs can help you in overcoming anxiety and panic attacks permanently, it is important to dispel two of the most pervasive and harmful myths about anxiety and panic attacks:

Myth #1: Medication Can Cure You

Any anxiety specialist worth their salt knows that medication is incapable of permanently curing an anxiety condition. Think about this for a second – has your medication ever really made you feel 100% better? I’m guessing it hasn’t. The reason for this is because, at best medication can only help anxiety and panic attack sufferers to manage their condition by masking their symptoms. Numbing the physical symptoms of anxiety may be enough for some, but those who want to completely CURE their anxiety must understand that it is simply not possible for medication to do the job for them.

Using medication to try and cure anxiety is like using a Band-Aid to try and cure an in-growing toenail: it hides the offending wound, but when you take it away the wound is still present but it is actually worse because it has had time to become infected! Similarly, medication can give anxiety and panic attack sufferers temporary relief by hiding the symptoms of their condition, but once the effect of the drug wears off the anxiety comes flooding back again and often much worse! The Linden Method and Panic Away are programs that help people to overcome their anxiety by completely and permanently eliminating the underlying anxiety disorder that causes all the unpleasant physical symptoms of anxiety.

Myth #2: Anxiety Is A Permanent Condition

Perhaps an even worse myth than the one that medication can cure anxiety is that anxiety can not be cured at all. This is patently untrue. Often we are informed by anxiety sufferers that their doctors tell them that anxiety is incurable, that it will unfortunately be a permanent condition in their lives but at least they have the option of managing their anxiety with the medication they will prescribe. This is simply not true. Anxiety is absolutely curable (without medication) and the numbers that have been able to achieve this now reach the hundreds of thousands. It is scary to imagine how many doctors unnecessarily prescribe powerful and potentially harmful anxiety medications, when it would be far more beneficial to the patient to simply recommend that they make a few lifestyle changes. Now, we’re not saying that all doctors do this, but there are many out there that do. Why do they do this? Well, for one because it is much easier to deal with a patient in this way. It is much easier to prescribe a pill and send a patient on his/her merry way than to sit down with him/her and set out a lifestyle regime change. The second reason doctors prefer to just hand out prescription is arguably the most obvious and significant one, and that is money.

How To Overcome Anxiety: Essential Lifestyle Changes

The Linden Method and Panic Away are both very successful self-help programs that have helped hundreds of thousands of anxiety and panic attack sufferers to permanently overcome their anxiety. However, while unique in their approaches, what each of these self help programs have in common is that they encourage anxiety and panic attack sufferers to make certain fundamental lifestyle changes designed to put into operation the body’s own natural healing mechanisms. In the Linden Method manual these lifestyle changes are called ‘The Nine Pillars’ and in Panic Away it is called ‘The One Move’. While these techniques are both effective in their own right, the rate at which they work their magic to help you to permanently cure your anxiety can be greatly increased by incorporating certain other changes in your life. Some of these changes are discussed in greater detail below:

Diversion

Diversion is one of the single most important processes one must practice in order to overcome anxiety permanently and it forms one of the cornerstones of the Linden Method. So what is diversion and how can it help you in overcoming anxiety without medication? Simply speaking, diversion is engaging in any activity which enables you to consciously focus on something other than your anxiety. As is well explained in the Linden Method manual, anxiety is a habit which is formed in the subconscious mind (there is a great deal of scientific evidence to back this up). By consciously engaging in activities which divert your focus away from your anxiety and towards the activity at hand, the anxious habit which has taken hold in your subconscious is slowly replaced by a new healthy, non-anxious habit. A diversion tactic can be absolutely anything which forces you to focus on something other than your anxiety, but the most effective diversion tactics are ones which engage the creative side of the brain and force you to really think about what you are doing. Photography and listening to or playing music are examples of great diversion tactics.

Exercise

Not only is exercising a great diversion tactic (especially if you listen to music while doing it), its benefits regarding and anxiety and overall health are vast. For one, exercise causes the release of endorphins and has been conclusively and scientifically proven to reduce stress hormones in the body. Consistent cardio vascular exercise also improves fitness which results in a more efficient and healthy resting heartbeat. Almost everyone (if not everyone) who suffers from high anxiety levels knows all too well the symptom of raised heart rate. As your fitness improves with frequent and consistent cardio vascular exercise (running, swimming, jogging etc) your resting heart rate will improve and this will help to engender a sense of well-being and relaxation. You don’t need to train like someone trying to get into the marine core – just 15-20 minutes a day of light cardio vascualr exercise will make a dramatic difference, but only if you are consistent with it. Make time to do it every day and make it routine.