Online Therapy for Panic Attacks - How to Overcome Panic Attacks
Hello there! My name is Peter Strong of the
Boulder Center for Mindfulness Therapy. Now,
many of the people who seek my assistance
here either in the office or online through
Skype sessions come to me suffering from panic
attacks and panic anxiety. This is by far
the most common form of emotional suffering
that people encounter in their lives. Now,
in the last few years or so more and more
people have been seeking Mindfulness Therapy
for their Panic Attacks and General Anxiety
over the internet using Skype, as I say, which
works extremely well, and there are many studies
that show it to be equally effective to in-person
therapy. And in some ways, it is even better
than in-person therapy, because the client
feels more empowered and in charge of the
process. Ant how, I just wanted to take a
couple of minutes to describe to you a little
bit about what Mindfulness Therapy is and
some of the essential principles of how to
work with your anxiety, and particularly with
your panic attacks. Panic attack anxiety is
very, very painful. It is one of the most
painful forms of emotions that a person can
experience. I know this from personal experience
as well as from working with people. It is
very distressing. Out natural reaction to
distressing emotions like this is, of course,
to run away from them, or to avoid them, or
to indulge in a whole range of secondary reactivity
- Thinking about the fear, worrying about
how you are going to cope if the panic attack
should occur, what people are going to think
about you, and so on - And this starts to
spin out of control and people suffering panic
attacks can literally just close down entirely.
When e work with panic anxiety here in the
office or online through Skype sessions, the
first and most essential principle of Mindfulness
Therapy is learning how to sit with that emotion,
with that feeling. The term, andquot;sittingandquot; is
a very nice term and it describes the process
very well. It's like sitting with a friend
or a child who is in pain, in which you are
basically there, being very present with an
open mind and an open heart. The attitude
of friendliness is absolutely essential. So,
when you are encountering panic anxiety, what
really helps is if you can take a few minutes
and start to explore how to sit with that
feeling as you experience it in your body
and in your mind as if it was a child in pain,
crying for your attention. And in many ways,
that is the function of mental pain or suffering.
It is there to attract our attention. It's
saying, andquot;Look over here!andquot; and the skillful
response to anxiety of all kinds is to do
just that. It is to take the time to look
at the anxiety and sit with it without becoming
reactive, without getting caught up in the
story, the emotional drama, in all the secondary
thinking about the pain that you are experiencing.
It is just to create a space inside in which
you are sitting with that pain and being fully
present. When you do this, you are creating
the right internal conditions that allow that
anxiety to begin to change itself. One of
the second principles of Mindfulness Therapy
is that we understand that our mind is more
than capable of solving the problem of emotional
anxiety. Our psyche has the skills, the intelligence,
and all that it needs to heal emotional suffering,
in the same way that our body has the skills
and bodily intelligence it needs to heal a
physical wound - a cut or a graze. However,
in order for the psyche, that is the Big Mind,
the intuitive mind, not the thinking mind,
but the deeper intuitive aspect of our mind.
In order for it to begin to start healing
anxiety it has to have freedom; freedom in
which to change. This freedom, which allows
an emotion to begin its own transformation
and healing is exactly what we are providing
through mindfulness. Mindfulness, as I define
it in my book, 'The Path of Mindfulness Meditation'
is engaged-presence, is that quality of being
really, really interested and present for
your experience, without getting caught up
in reactivity and thinking about the experience,
which is not the same as being present. So
freedom to change equals presence equals mindfulness.
It's hard, it's a hard process, to literally
learn how to face your emotions and your suffering
in this way. It is hard, but it is possible.
It is a process that is guaranteed to lead
to beneficial change. So, I invite you to
experiment with this by yourself. Learning
bit by bit how to sit with your pain and create
the right inner conditions that will allow
that pain to undergo transformation and healing.
If you would like more information or if you
would like to talk to me about your panic
anxiety, or other forms of anxiety, please
send me an email. Visit my website, MindfulnessMeditationTherapy.com.
Thank you!
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