Here is a post that may be helpful in diffusing a panic attack.
Here goes.
With panic attacks there is that element of being scared of fear. Like we are scared of getting a panic attack. We fear the panic, like Winston Churchill said that there is only fear to fear.
It so happens to us, that being scared of a panic attack means our mind is remembering it and is thinking about it and this unfortunately calls it forward and makes it happen, and happen against our will.
The last thing that we want to happen is the onset of panic. But it happens.
Obviously we believe that a panic attack is negative, certainly because it feels really awful. But there are other reasons there too. Because it is socially unacceptable, embarrassing, unprofessional, image destroying, it is just not normal, it is weird, it is psychotic, it is plain scary and irrational, it is stupid and petty, it means we are a non-sense Gnostic etc. etc.
In our mind that suffers from a panic attack some words like: "Ah no one cares really really, they will forget it when they go home to a nice dinner and fall asleep at night in their nice comfy bed feeling all nice and cosy in their skin, so if I am worried about what they think or feel and they are not worried then I'm not going to worry either so who cares!” Are quite useful.
But we can't say that can we, the consequences of what we are scared of are just too important to wipe away, forget about, disregard.
The consequence of a panic attack may be serious like a pilot panics when landing and he is flying a plane full of passengers, but the trick is to in our mind fully disregard it, like make crash landing the plane not a problem in our mind, that is not a problem in the mind of the panicking ego. But physically we still fly and land the plane nicely and safely. Read on...
The trick is to mindfully and without resisting it call on the panic.
The panic is approaching, let it come, it is ok, let be like ocean waves crashing down then dissipating, ok ok...
When we do this the mind gets confused and then diffused.
The mind says: "What! This possible consequence is not a big issue to him anymore? Then what, I've got nothing to do, no reason to provoke panic to make him alert to danger so to protect him from stuffing up or getting into trouble". Then it backs off.
By us opening it up in our mind and making it not a problem anymore. We make the unacceptable acceptable. Then fear has less and less of a reason to be present.
The trust comes in that we have to trust that it is all in our mind. That that the mind obeys the logic that if there is no danger or anything to worry about in its reason or its knowing then it will obey logic and back down. Our mind has reasons that a panic attack is terrible, when we void those reasons it has no reason to call it.
If we don't have mind we will perform totally well. We don't need the mind to jump the gun and to tell us about danger by making us scared, and panicked we have to trust more our essence than our mind. Our consciousness or essence can do any task better than our mind can.
The pilot is not thinking of crash landing the plane and so it is not an issue in the mind and the mind does not react calling panic to make sure that does not happen. And the pilot lands the plane beautifully.
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