It can be sudden without warning, without rhyme or reason it would seem from no where, a panic attack. Our mind can play tricks on us and distort the meaning we attach to past events in our life. The danger in this is that our past can end up running us unless we unravel those distortions or deletions.
We can tend to be on auto pilot when it comes to our reactions to events, experiences and trigger connected to our past. If we experienced a highly stressful experience it may result in anxiety or a panic attack. Till we decide to explore the games our mind is engaged in, the patterns themselves we could be trapped in these unproductive behavioural patterns.
The cost of not challenging our inner belief systems can directly affect ourselves and those people close to us, sometimes causing significant damage. To change our patterns it is important to find new meanings and develop new stories from those early life events.
Whether our old stories are true or not they run us and chase us into the future until we get help and the courage to bail up those narrations and challenge their authenticity. By reviewing the meaning we attach to past events we give ourselves a chance to rewrite our past. More importantly, we can choose a new way of being now.
Imagine you could rewrite history, not by changing the events by by changing your emotional response, changing perspectives and the meaning you attached way back when. Even better taking your inner resources of today to help the past you. Narrating your past from a different place.
This is a skill that as you develop it will give you resilience and the inner strength to choose and respond differently to new unfolding events. Imagine what it would be like to be confronted by triggers that no longer have any sway?
Building your resilience and inner strength through being able to change your story internally may well change how you behave next time a panic attack is upon you. Bit by bit you can shift this whole pattern of response and behaviour. Looking internally at yourself, self reflection is a valuable skill to deal with life’s challenges.
A daily practice of being grateful and emptying your mind by meditating will help you as well. It shifts your focus and allows your mind and body to breathe, to relax so you can deal with panic attacks or for that matter any stress or anxiety more effectively.
Learn more about panic attacks. Check out Allan Rudner’s website where you can find out all about how to deal with panic attacks.