Control Panic Attacks:  Imagine being in a carnival where a lot of people stroll through to get to rides, to participate in games or buy food from concession stands.  And then, your friend dares you to ride the Ferris wheel as he knows you are scared of heights.  Of course, your immediate answer would be a no because you suddenly remember a bad memory where you fell from a tree when you were a kid.

But since your friend is pushing you to get onto the ride, you finally oblige and when you stand in line waiting for your turn to ride the Ferris wheel, you suddenly feel that heart beats faster, your hands become clammy, butterflies in your stomach and your throat tightens.

Does this scenario seem familiar to you?  When you look at this situation, you would immediately know that this person is really anxious to the point that he may be experiencing an anxiety attack.  This is triggered by the stress that he is experiencing before he goes onto the ride and because his mind keeps coming back to what happened when he was little.

Although there is no immediate threat in riding a Ferris wheel, this person would not know this because he assumes that something would go wrong once he goes into the Ferris wheel.  This feeling and belief has been brought about by his negative past experience and even if you say that the fear he is feeling is unrealistic, there is no way that he would believe you.

One of the traditional techniques that were introduced to help ease the heightened emotions that anxiety causes is a breathing exercise.  Here, once you feel that you are having an anxiety attack, you go to a place where you can be alone and do focused breathing.  Focus breathing is where you just mind how you breathe for a specific interval like five minutes or so.  Another type of breathing exercise is the one that is taught in Lamaze classes that aim to help people get through the pain of giving birth.  These breathing exercises aim to help you relax and neutralize the effects of an anxiety attack.

Aside from breathing exercises, there is a technique called the One Move Technique that aims to help you face anxiety attacks by commanding the heightened sensations you feel to make themselves more known to you.  This way, you would believe that the anxious feelings that you are having are not real.

Although, these techniques can help you control panic attacks at first , eventually, there may come a time where you would feel fed up with all your efforts in controlling panic attacks and all you want to do is give up.  And once your willpower and determination wanes, there would be a tendency for you to not just slide back to where you started but there is a chance that panic attacks would affect you even on a greater scale.

Unlike panic attack control tactics, Psycho-Cybernetics has a long-lasting effect.  This is because Psycho-Cybernetics to tweak a person’s self-image and condition his mind in such a way that he would feel more confident, happier, more sociable and more satisfied with his life.

Psycho-Cybernetics makes use of methods such as step in, step out technique where you analyze your previous bad experience and compare them with how you are at present. This would make you realize that you were able to change yourself for the better and you can use this to motivate yourself the next time you doubt yourself.

Other than step in, step out technique, Psycho-Cybernetics also makes use of the calm mind, calm body and calm body, calm mind technique that helps you to feel relaxed and displaced on demand.  So, in case you get stressed out due to work, for instance, you just rest comfortably in your chair, close your eyes and use this technique to get yourself relaxed in no time.  It may take some time to get used to this technique but in the long run, you would be able to use this automatically over and over again.
So, if you are using the usual ways to control panic attacks, switch to Psycho-Cybernetics and you are sure to benefit from it for life.