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You have heard the saying ‘what you resist persists’. Well that saying
applies perfectly to fear. If you resist a situation or experience out of fear,
the fear around that issue will persist. How do you stop resisting– you
move directly into its path, by doing so it cannot persist. In essence what
that means is that if you daily voluntarily seek out a panic attack you
cannot have one. You may not realise it but you have always decided to
panic. You make the choice by thinking ‘this is beyond my control’,
‘something terrible is about to happen’.
To use a visual analogy; imagine having a panic attack is like standing on a
cliff edge. The anxiety it seems is pushing you closer to falling over the
edge. Each unusual sensation confirms that something terrible is about to
happen and you feel yourself being edged closer and closer to the abyss.
There are two options open to you in this scenario.
1. You can turn around and fight your way back to safe ground by using
coping techniques and strategies you have learnt previously. You
might seek reassurance from a friend or take a dose of medication to
help you feel safer. Basically you fight it.
2. or two. You use my technique. You bravely jump!
To be really free of the fear you must metaphorically jump. You must jump
off the cliff edge that scares you so much and into all the things that you
fear most.
How do you jump – You jump by inviting more of the fear.
Your guaranteed safety is the fact that a panic attack will never harm you.
That is medical fact. You are safe, the sensations are wild but no harm will
come to you. Your heart is racing but no harm will come to you. The jump
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