I suffer from anxiety while I am driving. Is that weird? I literally freak out so bad that I have to pull over. It only happens when I am on the freeway. Just the thought of driving freaks me out, what should I do?
after a recent car accident i too used to freak out when i got in a car, and suffered anxiety constantly to overcome it you must keep driving and not pull over even if you feel you are having a panic attack eventually your brain will become relaxed and accept that nothing is going to happen and the anxiety will go away. The only thing that gives anxiety its energy is you.
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Anxiety Panic Attacks – Stopping The Attacks Before They Start
For those of the many people who have suffered from anxiety, they know that anxiety hurts. If you are one of those many who suffer from this condition, you know first hand that this statement is true.
It’s no wonder so many people are at the brink of doing just about anything to rid themselves of the pain of panic attacks. This conditions can keep you from enjoying life and all the pleasures that life has to offer if you let it become uncontrollable.
Preventing them from starting in the first place is the best way to rid yourself of anxiety and panic attacks. These problems do not just surface out of nowhere. They are rooted from experiences that we live and think about day in and day out.
For example, before the anxiety or panic arises, try this exercise to help prevent an attack from happening. Take 5 minutes of your day and devote it only to you. Take a comfortable seat and rest your hands in your lap. Till the count of five relax and inhale deeply and slowly. Hold it in. Now, slowly and gently exhale till the count of five.
Practice taking these long, gentle breaths 4-5 times in a row. Focus on the sounds and sensations of your steady breath entering and leaving your body.
Once you have mastered your breathing technique, think of a situation in your life that causes anxiety or panic for you. When the thought enters your head and you feel the anxiety build up, tell yourself that you can handle it and move on. It may take repeating it over and over until you notice that there is zero anxiety. It will work if you believe in yourself and believe it will work.
Lets be clear about one thing, the purpose of this exercise is to keep yourself calm through thoughts that normally would stress you. Try to keep a positive head and do not dwell on the situation itself, but on overcoming the situation.
Believing that every time you come across this situation or a new one similar to it you will live through it without anxiety or panic attacks. Remember to just stay calm and relaxed and feel acceptance of the matter.
Lets examine what acceptance means. Can you feel acceptance? Yes, you can! You feel acceptance when you are in a peaceful state, devoid of struggle, based in the here and now. Being in a state of acceptance, you do not think of the future or the past. You are in the moment, completely present.
When you are in a state of acceptance, you can not resist the thing that makes you anxious. You are so in tuned to the fact that it is there and you do not care. Instead of striving to change the situation, you simply allow yourself to exist and you allow the situation to exist, and let it go. Not fighting it will allow it to go away. And, letting it go away will result in sending your anxiety panic attacks away as well.
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Overcoming Anxiety: 4 Steps to Living the Life You Want
A fear of our feelings, including often stands in the way of us reaching our full potential. In this article, I’ll share the four steps to overcoming this fear and living the life you really want.
Step One: Emotional Mindfulness
In the first step, the goal is to increase our conscious awareness of our emotional experience. It starts off with becoming aware of our feelings as well as the ways in which we defend against them.
Emotional mindfulness, in part, is about becoming attuned to the signs that you’re having feelings. It necessitates taking the time to slow down and be more mindful of what’s going on in your body and to notice the ways in which you avoid your feelings.
Step Two: Taming the Fear
The main reason why many of us avoid our feelings is because they make us anxious. They feel scary or dangerous in some way. The key to being able to move forward differently is to find a way to tame that fear.
I teach people ways to regulate their anxiety so that they can diminish it and begin to open up to their emotions. This process takes some practice but doesn’t need to feel overwhelming as it can approached one step at a time.
If we can learn how to bring our anxiety down, even just a little bit, we can then open up to our emotions. The more we do that, the less afraid that we’ll be.
Step Three: Feeling It Through
This step is all about experiencing our emotions more fully. Contrary to what we fear, when fully felt, emotions don’t last for ever. They’re like a wave in the ocean, with an energetic flow. They have a beginning, middle, and an end. They may start off small and rise up with intensity or they may be like ripples in a brook that gently move through us.
But many of us end up behaving defensively to avoid our feelings and do all these things to stop them in their tracks. That’s when we get stuck and we think, “Oh my gosh. They’re going to last forever.” It’s our resistance to our feelings that prolongs distress.
The reality is that our emotions stick around longer when we do things to try to avoid them. If we’re able open up the experience and move with the energy, we’re able to feel them through and get to a better place. Step Four: Opening Up
This step is finding a way to share our feelings with other people. Not every feeling needs to be shared. What’s most important is that we’re in touch with them and able to make use of their wisdom and power, but often our feelings motivate us to share them in some way. It’s up to us then to evaluate whether to let others know what we’re feeling. The idea of sharing feelings with others can be anxiety provoking for some of us. Sometimes we’re afraid about how others will react. Here is where we can make use of some of our earlier steps (such as ‘Taming the Fear’) in order to more comfortably be able to open up and share them with others.
By following these four steps, we can open up to new experiences and move towards our greater potential in life.
The most challenging step for most people is ‘Taming the Fear’. We avoid our feelings because they’re scary. When we get to the place where we start to feel afraid again, the natural tendency can be to go back to avoiding them. Without any help, when we start to feel our anxiety again, our reflex kicks in and we tend to want to avoid them.
If you’re feeling anxious, it can be a helpful sign that you’re getting closer to your feelings. That’s actually a good thing. If you’re able to stay with it, you realize that you can tolerate it and you’re able to move forward.
When we’re able to begin to make room for our feelings, we soon learn that it’s relieving, that it provides us with clarity, a sense of truth, and that it motivates us to be able to face life’s challenges and move forward.
Then there are other people who have more of a struggle. Everyone’s different. Sometimes it can be a slower process. All that matters is that you keep at it. Even if you’re taking tiny steps, ultimately over time they build up and your tolerance and your ability to be with your emotions increases.
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