How To Stop Panic Attacks And Obsessive Thoughts
August 6th, 2010 | by admin |Obsessive thoughts are the real cause of almost all your anxiety. Every single time you’ve had severe anxiety it started with an obsessive thought, and it spiralled out of control and eventually became the severe anxiety you felt or the panic attack you had.
You might be thinking that this isn’t how anxiety works with you and that obsessive thoughts aren’t to blame, and if that’s the situation I’d like you to begin paying attention to your own anxiety and to what you’re feeling and thinking right before it gets out of hand.
I think you’ll be amazed to learn that obsessive thoughts are at the centre of your panic and anxiety. The reason I’m so confident about this is because I’ve interacted with literally hundreds of people who are in exactly your position, plus I also experienced these same problems for myself for almost 2 decades.
The really awful thing about having an anxiety disorder is that you can’t just shut off your horrible thoughts like a lot of non-anxious people can. So you need a different option. And that option is to find ways to bring an instant halt to a potentially harmful thought before it ever has a chance to become an obsession.
So I’m gonna share a quick 3 step system you can start using TODAY anytime you have a harmful or negative thought that you need to stop before it becomes obsessive and causes you real problems. And here are the 3 steps:
Step One is to retrain your thinking, ASAP. You need to get it to a place where it can spot a negative or potentially damaging thought the moment that it begins. This includes thoughts that start out very small and seem to be no problem at all. These small thoughts can grow into large ones that cause serious problems, so these need to be treated just as the obviously terrible thoughts are treated.
Step two is to learn a technique that will allow you to stop these unwanted thoughts, and the one I suggest is to simply use other thoughts to overpower the original one. This makes sense, because the only thing that can really stop one thought is another thought. The key here is to make this second thought a positive one. Play around with thoughts – use anything that works and overpowers that original and unpleasant thought.
Okay, step three is to make this new positive way of thinking a habit that happens automatically, just as your harmful thoughts are happening automatically for you right now. The only way to make this happen is to think positive thoughts as frequently as possible. In time, your mind will automatically think these positive thoughts when your mind wanders, where once it would have gone immediately to the damaging thoughts you experience right now.
I honestly believe that if you can use and stick to these 3 steps that your anxiety and panic and obsessive thoughts will be in better shape than they’ve been for many years.