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Panic Attacks
Do
you suffer from panic attacks, or are they something that happens
to other people ?
Many people have heard the expression, but don't link it in
their minds to an experience that they do have, whether seldom
or often. Now you've taken the trouble to come to this page,
why not check it out by reading the following paragraph: |
| Your heart beats alarmingly quickly - like
a palpitation - and you become vaguely aware of a number of
bodily effects. Frequently the breathing rate increases as rapidly
as though the you just weren't getting enough air. There can
be a cramped feeling across the lower part of the diaphragm
and a tingling sensation, accompanied by either a hot or cold
flush in unexpected parts of the body - usually the extremities,
finger ends and the like. All the feelings combine to somehow
vaguely suggest to you that you are losing consciousness, and
you can appear almost rooted to the spot, as though you had
seen an ghost. You are usually dumbstruck and immobilized. You
can neither run nor fight, because it all comes from within,
and you are panic-stricken by what is taking place. Yet something,
very vague, and very abstract, is floating in the back of your
mind, but you cannot understand it. It is truly the unknown. |
| And there is a further aspect of the panic
attack that might be called "The Volcano Effect".
It is like this: |
 Just
imagine you live in a lovely country cottage all your life,
where, from the window, you can see a beautiful mountain. You
are in the habit of watching the sun set behind the mountain
in the evenings, and occasionally strolling on the mountain
on a lovely summer afternoon. Imagine your surprise, if one
particular morning the mountain, which you had viewed previously
with such admiration, was to suddenly erupt with the full power
and fury of a volcano - spewing its molten lava in streams towards
you own home, threatening you very existence. Let us further
suppose that the volcano subsided into normality and that no
apparent damage had been done; the lava cooled and set; the
furrows and ridges it had created were there for all to see,
but to all intents and purposes the state of normality had returned.
Don't tell me that you could ever view that "mountain"
as a mountain again. To your dying day, it would always be a
"volcano". Every single morning, as you opened the
curtains and looked out again at that "mountain",
you would be remembering what had happened last time and wondering
whether such a contingency was likely to occur again. Herein
lies the strength of the panic attack, and the fury which it
conceals. The person who has experienced a panic attack views
their own being - their own psyche, their own organism - as
they had previously viewed, or now viewed that "mountain".
They are expecting a similar attack to take place. They are
poised and waiting for it. In their particular case, because
they are expecting it, they are giving themselves the suggestion
that it will take place. Almost certainly it will precipitate
another attack. The second attack will, as in the analogy of
the volcano, send out streams along the rivers which had already
been cut. The memory patterns, which had been laid down in the
first attack, will be adhered to on the second one. This time,
they will spread (just as in the analogy of the volcano) further
and further, cutting deeper and deeper. |
A way out
Is there something familiar about all this? Do you recognize
perhaps several of the symptoms mentioned? If so, sure, you
have panic attacks. This may seem a silly question, but is
it something you would like to put a stop to? If you don't
mind it happening, fine, just hit the Back button. But most
people who have them would desperately like to get rid of
them. Interested?
We have a reliable method of eradicating panic attacks. This
is done by going back under hypnosis to uncover the events
or situations in early life which have become stuck out of
sight in the subconscious, but continue to wreak havoc, usually
when we can least afford it to happen. The method is called
Hypnoanalysis, and you can find out more about it here.
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