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Panic Attacks - 3 Tips To Prevent Them Controlling Your Life

By Samantha Adams

For any one who suffers from panic attacks if they allow them to they can take control over their life. There are a number of things which one can do to prevent a panic attack happening. But should the situation become a chronic one then it may need to treated medically. Below we provide some tips on ways of how to stop panic attacks before they take complete control.

Tip 1 - A sensible way of stopping a panic attacks is to learn about breathing correctly. If you learn the right breathing techniques then you will find that you are able to relax far more quickly and easily. Today finding information on the various different breathing techniques and how to do them is very easy, just search online.

But the simplest of these breathing techniques is the one where you sit somewhere that allows you to relax and then you begin to breathe very slowly and very deeply. It is the slow breathing which tells your body that it is becoming relaxed and calm and so any signals being sent to the adrenal glands can be halted.

Tip 2 - It may take you some time before you are able to master this particular tip. In order to stop a panic attack one needs to learn how to remove all negative thoughts from one's mind. So what you need to do if a panic attack starts is tell yourself that you can and will prevent it from escalating. Doing this wil help you to then get the situation under control and will help to make your mind more relaxed.

But once you begin to stop having negative thoughts it is crucial that you replace them immediately with positive ones. But the thoughts you should be having are those which assert further what you are already thinking. So avoid thinking about lovely animals or warm sunshine, instead thing about those things which you have already done and which helped you to respond in the right way to the problem.

Tip 3 - When you start to feel a panic attack coming on you need to move yourself away from what has triggered it initially. It is also important that as soon as you have such feelings you recognize them for what they are. Then you need to start making changes even small ones so you either avoid the situation or deal with them better in the future. - 26706

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