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Panic Attacks - Five Steps to Freedom
Lorraine Mason
Synopsis
To calm a panic attack is to ‘let-go’ of it. But to ‘let-go’ of such a high degree of fear you need to be exceptionally precise in your actions. As part of my ‘five step programme’ I explain those actions; what they are, how they work, when to put them into practice and how to put them into practice, I also forewarn and forearm you against the potential pit-falls. Having said that, this is the beginning of your recovery, the starting place and the first rung on the ladder to your freedom, in which case, like many people, your approach to recovery might be filled with the impatience to finish. So at this point I will explain that my work is to help you make a full and permanent recovery from panic attacks, thereby allowing you to be free of not only panic attacks but also all fear of them. Accordingly, during my programme you will not find a ‘quick fix’ out of panic attacks but rather, I will purposefully take you through each step very slowly indeed.
When recovering from panic attacks via my programme you will go through five stages, these are your ‘Five Steps To Freedom’ …
Step One – Be Comforted
This step invites you to come in from the cold, sit down, warm yourself and see where you are really up to; for you are now with someone who truly knows how you are feeling and how to help you - it offers you a few initial word of reassurance and comfort - it lists over 100 natural and normal physical, mental and emotional symptoms that any stress sufferer can expect to experience - it explains the differences between anxiety attacks, panic attacks and phobic attacks - it covers your own likely descent into panic attacks - it reminds you that despite your wish to keep your panic attacks a secret, a trouble shared can often be a trouble halved - and it gives a brief re-cap covering your first step to freedom. … This step is preparing the ground for your recovery, and whilst its usefulness might not be immediately apparent, it is nevertheless absolutely crucial.
Step Two – Understand Yourself
This step is the foundation of recovery and takes you to a point of understanding the fundamental elements of what is happening to you, for it was your misunderstanding of these elements that caused you to suffer panic attacks in the first place. This step explains why all humans experience arousal and how it is made within the body - it describes arousal in action - it explains, in detail, the physical, emotional and mental effects of prolonged arousal - and it gives a brief re-cap covering your second step to freedom. ... This step lays the foundation footings of your recovery, it is the strength, the element that everything else rests on and without its understanding, any so-called recovery will certainly crumble.
Step Three – Enlighten Yourself
This step is the pinnacle of the programme; your plan of action begins here! This step - explains exactly what you are doing wrong when a panic attacks strikes; thereby fuelling it - it explains precisely how to deal with a panic attack correctly; thereby calming it - it offers an extremely effective stress-buster routine - if you are suffering mental symptoms of stress, it shows you how to gain 'mind rest' - and it gives a brief re-cap covering your third step to freedom... This step will take you to where you are physically and mentally laying your first brick of recovery; very rewarding.
Step Four – Empower Yourself
Whilst, for some people, recovery from panic attacks can be virtually instantaneous, for most it takes a little while. So this step - explains your need to repeat the process learned in Step Three - it explains ‘re-balancing’ and gives forewarning of the potential 'boulders of recovery' - it explains how your current life is likely to be similar to a roller-coaster ride of good-days/bad-days and it offers tried and tested ways of getting through the bad-days - it offers an insight into the ‘golden moments of recovery’ - it covers your possible feelings of guilt for suffering a ‘mind problem’ and explains why such feelings do not belong to you - it explains why the current trends in treatment so often fail panic attack sufferers and which might have failed you - and it gives a brief re-cap covering your fourth step to freedom. … This step involves you reprogramming your brain, building up confidence and applying your new found ability, and whilst you will possibly find it hard work, you will also find it tremendously empowering.
Step Five – Free Yourself
By this step you will no longer be running scared of panic attacks therefore - it invites you to actually search out all those places and situations where, up to now, you have avoided due to panic attacks - it asks you to evaluate and adapt your stress-buster routine - it reminds you to give yourself time to heal - it offers help with medication withdrawal as recommended by the British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain - it explains how freedom from panic attacks can be the beginning, the starting place, the open door to 'life' and the opportunity to become the person you were really born to be; for your freedom is only freedom if you embrace it, otherwise you are still holding yourself in bondage - and it gives a brief re-cap covering your fifth step to freedom. … This step invites you to fully and finally claim back your life from panic attacks, for now you are standing on very solid and well-protected ground.
Whilst I do understand your one desire is to stop the panic attacks immediately, I nevertheless ask you to realise that the information in this book is not simply about general stress and panic attacks but rather, it is a programme out of panic attacks. And similar to any programme, if you try to short cut it (by flicking through the pages or beginning at the back of the book, reading the last chapter, then making your conclusions from that) you then risk jumping to the wrong conclusion, or overlooking the one piece of information that may be necessary for your recovery or you might even break the sequence of recovery, in which case, much of the benefit can then be lost. So please, give yourself the most effective help out of panic attacks that I have ever encountered by applying yourself to this programme as it is presented.
