Just finished reading an e-mail from a young man I know in Canada who was talking about the same thing as @Chance ,
How it begins with a thought.
The letter was about emotions, anxiety and negative thoughts.
Look for the negative thought behind the emotion.
There will always be one. Let it go or change it to an affirmation. I like that Stop the Car. I'm Driving.
I use one similar, Stop, Stop, Stop, it is just a thought.
Then divert my attention onto something around me.
Letting go of the fear thoughts can be fearful in itself and
it may not feel natural. Because those chemicals that our brains are used to in certain situations or thought storms are truly expected and without them, it feels odd.
But, the body must be retrained.
In the letter he said he looks at it like levels.
The body physical, the soul, the emotions, the mental,
the spiritual. One filters down into the next until it reaches the body physical. If you are blocked say at the emotional level, then the mental level can't get by in a positive to the body where the chemical reactions take place. That is where you need to find the negative mental thought that creates in the emotional, creating havoc. Replace it, release it and allow a positive into the emotional. He was deep thinking also.
But, I understand it. It can work. It isn't easy.
It is interesting @Streetwise that a panic attack, for as bad as they feel, can be cathartic. I know, I've felt the same.
Like crying. It is good not to feel so overwhelmed as to need it, but, as humans sometimes a release is needed.
Twenty-one days, eh?
I never knew that, but, it gives me a goal.
I'll be thinking of that.
How it begins with a thought.
The letter was about emotions, anxiety and negative thoughts.
Look for the negative thought behind the emotion.
There will always be one. Let it go or change it to an affirmation. I like that Stop the Car. I'm Driving.
I use one similar, Stop, Stop, Stop, it is just a thought.
Then divert my attention onto something around me.
Letting go of the fear thoughts can be fearful in itself and
it may not feel natural. Because those chemicals that our brains are used to in certain situations or thought storms are truly expected and without them, it feels odd.
But, the body must be retrained.
In the letter he said he looks at it like levels.
The body physical, the soul, the emotions, the mental,
the spiritual. One filters down into the next until it reaches the body physical. If you are blocked say at the emotional level, then the mental level can't get by in a positive to the body where the chemical reactions take place. That is where you need to find the negative mental thought that creates in the emotional, creating havoc. Replace it, release it and allow a positive into the emotional. He was deep thinking also.
But, I understand it. It can work. It isn't easy.
It is interesting @Streetwise that a panic attack, for as bad as they feel, can be cathartic. I know, I've felt the same.
Like crying. It is good not to feel so overwhelmed as to need it, but, as humans sometimes a release is needed.
Twenty-one days, eh?
I never knew that, but, it gives me a goal.
I'll be thinking of that.