The real trick to beating your anxiety is to reduce it’s threat in your mind. In other words, don’t think of an anxiety cloud or a panic attack as a big deal. Looking at an anxiety cloud or a panic attack as a big bad enemy that needs to be attacked is a sure fire way of talking yourself into another anxiety attack.

Don’t get me wrong – Lucinda Bassett from the Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety has a great program, and it’s actually the first stress reduction program I ever tried. Back then the program was on cassette tapes and included some basic literature on how to calm yourself down and change your life drug free. The program taught me allot, but if it wasn’t for the medication I started taking, I never would have got my stress under control.

Whenever I have been without medication, and extreme anxiety has come over me (leading to panic attacks), I remember trying to “attack” the anxiety cloud that was building. I attacked it with everything I had and it never worked.

The truth is that you can’t hide from an anxiety cloud that is building. You can’t run, hide, or attack it. You need to take action to overcome an ongoing anxiety disorder or multiple panic attacks a day, but if you don’t have any medication, you’ll have to ride out the panic attack. Riding it out sounds like it’s easy. Like a ride in the country. But as all anxiety sufferers know, it can be pure hell.

There are several things you can do to deal with a full blown anxiety attack, and none of them may give you an instant relief. Medication might, and depending on what kind of medication it is, it might give you some instant temporary relief. When the panic attack is over then the sufferer can be left with a crippling fear of the next attack. This is where I think the opportunity lies if you want to stop your panic attacks without the use of medication.

I believe that the point of exit from a panic attack is where the secret to beating anxiety and panic attacks once and for all. It’s at this time you need to practice what I call the point of exit methodology (or POEM system).

It’s very important that when you are suffering deeply from anxiety or depression that you remember that it’s temporary. I know from allot of personal experience that it’s very hard to believe that your depression and anxiety will pass. That is what is so crippling about it. You must learn to remember that it WILL pass.

Five Magic Words

When you find yourself in that frightening hole, just remember that it’s treatable, there is help, and it will pass. The important thing is that you say these words to yourself,

“I WANT TO FEEL GOOD”

Repeat these word to yourself as often as you can during the day. I WANT TO FEEL GOOD. Just keep on saying these words to yourself over and over again until it’s like a mantra. What happens is you wash your brain of your negative and self-defeating inner dialogue.

These five magic words will slowly give you the strength to take the action required to overcome your fear, anxiety, and depression. You may be suffering from depression and anxiety as you read this. Start now. Say these five magic words to yourself right now. “I WANT TO FEEL GOOD”

Take Action Immediately

Don’t wait in fear and suffer from high anxiety, loss of sleep, and day to day depression. Take action today and find a clinic near you. If you live in a country that does not provide national health care, use the Internet to find information like you are reading right now.

If there is any way you can get in to see a doctor, do it. Don’t wait. As soon as you get in for help you will begin to feel a little bit better. You may still be in a fog of fatigue, fear, depression and anxiety, and you may feel afraid to even go outdoors, but make sure you slowly pull yourself together and DO IT.

By taking action you will be carrying out what you have been saying to yourself in those five magic words. I WANT TO FEEL GOOD. Your action is the way out of your anxiety, fear and depression.

You Are Not Alone

You’re going to be OK. All of this will pass. You are going to be fine, and NEVER forget that you are not alone. You are a perfect beautiful person created by love and universal energy. You are never alone. Millions and millions of people suffer from anxiety and depression in our world here on earth. You will make it through this. Just take it slow, and start making changes in the way you have been thinking – begin finding help because there are many, many people that want to help you.