Panic attacks and panic disorder affects more people in the U.S. and Western Europe. Those who do not suffer from panic attacks, it is difficult to see how unbearably painful anxiety and panic for those who continue to experience panic attacks. Victims of panic attacks, the experience is very visceral, it's a struggle on a large scale or flight reaction, which can cause a significant increase in heart rate and produce profuse sweating, and many other physiological and biochemical changes.
Imagine walking along a path and suddenly in front of the mountain lion, that this is how it feels for those suffering from anxiety, panic - and sometimes much worse. panic is not really a "mind" as some might think, but the reaction will be uniform, which includes both body and mind, which supports a reactive process.
However, ultimately, is what happens in the mind triggers emotional and physiological processes that cause a panic attack itself. Many people who suffer from anxiety panic is looking for ways to change the mental processes underlying anxiety-producing. Many are turning to a form of talk therapy or counseling, while others prefer a more direct, such as CBT or therapy because these attempt to care for changing the internal mechanism that generates the emotional response that triggers physical reactions.
The kernel panic disorder you will always find a kind of thought that the reactive trigger panic attacks, and of course the theory behind CBT is that if you can change those habits of negative thinking and negative beliefs so you can take above the panic attack. In the therapy approach of mindfulness, we take a step forward because we realize that the problem is not only the content of thoughts or beliefs or memories, but with the emotional energy that is injected these specific forms of thought. It is this emotional costs which gives this power to negative thoughts, beliefs or traumatic memories. So two people can think the same thought, but they react very differently - because the emotional charge is different for different people.
Mindfulness Therapy, therefore, the focus is to find a way to change this emotional energy, so that it can handle and resolve. Then everything is left "empty concept", which is no longer a special meaning or power to cause anxiety or distress. Mindfulness in therapy clients / students learn to "sit" and their feelings.
This means that they learn to keep their feelings to conscious awareness without getting lost in the story, or respond to anger, resistance or avoidance. This fundamental change in the relationship will not be consumed with a passion can observe the feelings of the object that keeps our awareness is the key. We call this primary relationship with Mindfulness therapy, and gives you the best possible conditions for the emotional charge that can begin to manage themselves.
Thus, negative thoughts and beliefs begin to lose intensity and lose their power over you. Find a quiet time during the day and practice sitting with your panic disorder. It is difficult to do during a panic attack, but quite possible when you're not. What you do is learn to meditate on the feelings themselves, making it focus attention consciousness.
In this deliberately, you will begin to develop a relationship with the sensation itself, which is not based on responsiveness, which only reinforces the problem, but attention, which creates an ideal environment for internal change . He is repeatedly returned to the feelings and develop this relationship non-reactive as you start to break free of habitual patterns of reactivity becomes stronger and more balanced. But more than that, this mindfulness meditation on the emotions creates an interior space where the emotions will start to change and transform.
