A technique to reduce your stress and stop panic attacks

It is claimed that over 50%of people are stressed out by their relationships, over 60% are stressed out by their work and over 70% are stressed out by money.

What stresses you out?

Many of you will know that in the past I have had challenges with stress. I had many years of counselling which unfortunately seemed to make my situation worse, because despite the talking therapy I was not given any strategies to help. Unfortunately, having therapy also had a very negative impact on my income protection plans, permanently excluding any conditions that may have mental or emotional components. If only I had known this beforehand, I would not have visited the GP and would have found effective therapies outside the NHS and my medical records.

Fortunately, I discovered NLP and all my stressors and traumas of long standing have been resolved.

Today I would like to share a very simple and effective exercise with you that will help reduce your feeling of stress and stop a panic attack their tracks.

Any state of mind positive and negative is created by

·      Your thought patterns, how your mind processes and attaches meaning to information.

·      Your physiology, macro and micro.

This is fantastically liberating because it puts you back in control of your state. You can create and enhance positive states by what and how you pay attention and how you use your physiology. Using your internal representation and physiology you can also reduce and remedy negative or painful states of mind.

NLP gives us and inexhaustible variety of ways for you to use your internal representation and physiology to enable you to be the best and emotionally healthiest version of yourself.

 I would like to invite you to do a reflective comparative analysis of your breathing patterns.

• Think of a time when you were super stressed, remember that time, see hear, think and feel what it was like to feel that super stressed. Now pay attention to your breathing in this state; where do you breathe from, high in your chest or deep in your belly, how fast is your breathing, how regular is it, do you hold your breath, do you breathe through your nose, mouth?

When you have noticed all there is to notice about how you breathe when you are stressed, do 5 jumping jacks, shake out your arms and your legs.

• Think of a time when you were super calm and relaxed, remember that time, see hear, think and feel what it was like to feel that super calm. Now pay attention to your breathing in this state; where do you breathe from, high in your chest or deep in your belly, how fast is your breathing, how regular is it, do you hold your breath, do you breathe through your nose, mouth?

What were the differences in how you were breathing, when stressed and calm

Your breathing is state dependant and your state is breathing dependant, because of this you can change your state by changing your breathing.

Next time that you are feeling stressed or a panic attack coming on, do this and notice the difference in makes to how you feel.

·      Breathe in through your nose for the count of 4

·      Hold your breath for the count of 6

·      Breathe out through your mouth your mouth for the count of 8

Repeat for 60- 90 seconds.

Let me know how this simple technique helps you reduce your feeling of stress.