There are certain key thought processes that can stop a panic attack, when you are in the middle of the attack, and there are the all-important thought processes to use to get yourself back in a better place all around.

So this post is called the “Seven Keys to Recovering from a Panic Episode”. Here I will list the seven thought processes you can undergo in order to stop a panic attack, greatly reduce stress overall, and then enter your “place of bliss”.

Follow these steps in order, and don’t move to the next step until you have fully absorbed and FELT the feeling – not just THOUGHT of the idea.

Key #1 – Acceptance

This first step is extremely important for you if you are presently in the midst of a panic attack or extreme anxiety. You need to calm yourself down by simply ACCEPTING your moment. No matter how bad your anxiety is in the current moment, just say to yourself that you accept the situation. Don’t judge your anxiety attack as bad, good, or anything in between. Just look upon your present anxious moment with a loving observer’s view point. Don’t beat yourself up – just close your eyes and FEEL acceptance of the moment. Once you feel acceptance, you will be amazed at how quickly your anxious thoughts begin to dissipate.

No matter what is causing your anxiety, this acceptance will work for you, but you must feel it. Focus your energy and attention on your body – your chest, your breathing, your legs, your arms, your shoulders, your hands, feet, etc – and feel the acceptance of your present moment situation. Don’t move on to the next steps until you have done this first step. Remember that you are not alone right now. There is the presence of pure love all around you no matter how much your ego and worried mind have tried to convince you otherwise.

All writings from all sages at some point mention the importance of acceptance. The very root, and core reason, for why us human beings suffer from anxiety is because we are resisting what is. We may be thinking about a possible “bad” outcome, or stressing about past issues. If you are able to simply exist in the very moment of your being, it is impossible to have stress symptoms. You can learn a heap about the art of living in the moment by reading Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth, and I encourage you to do so. I talk about the art of living in the now in one of the later keys.

For instance, if you have anxiety attacks triggered from driving, or being in public, just focus on accepting your current position. If you are stuck on the highway during a long and busy commute, and you feel anxiety pulsing through your body, tell yourself that you accept the moment, and remember that you are just fine. Just watch the road, your mirrors, and breath deeply. Accept, and watch how your anxiety begins to drop and maybe even fade away completely.

Key #2 – Go Within

Going within is the next step once you have FELT acceptance. Once again, going within must be “felt” and not just “thought”. Remember that your ego, your mind, all external people, and all external form, is not the real you. The real you is within – deep within.

In this key (or step) you need to FEEL your inner body and feel all external form leaving your inner domain. Your body truly is a temple of God (or universal love if you prefer) and deep inside your physical form exists a silent and sacred place – basically your body is made up of from the same particles, atoms, molecules, as the universe. What dwells inside of you is perfect and untouched by all external “happenings” and “events”.

Use your mind to visualize your body taking in it’s breath and exhaling it’s breath. Imagine all of your internal organs, bones, blood, and joints in their silent perfection. Your body carries out it’s living miracle without worry or fear, and it is attached to universal love, kindness, and affection. It’s a perfect vessel regardless if it’s in a wheel chair, on crutches, overweight, underweight, bald, hairy, dirty, clean, sweaty, white, brown, black, pink, or green. This has nothing to do with what society calls beauty. This is the same for all humans living on earth, no matter what their living situation.

So remember all of these facts as you focus your energy on your breathing and your inner body. Imagine and see all of your worries, concerns, and events as part of your mind and ego’s reality, because your fear and anxiety is NOT a part of your true reality – your true self does not even understand what fear and anxiety is.

After you have practiced acceptance, and you have FELT your focus going deep inside your body, you will most certainly begin feeling MUCH better. Your stress and anxiety will seem to be nothing more than a cloud existing outside of your body and owned by your false ego and mind.

Next key step is to be the witness, watch the witness, and understand the witness.

Key #3 – Be The Witness and Watch The Witness

“The Witness” is a term used by many ancient contemporary faiths and religions – and for good reason. The witness is divine energy and it is the real you. The witness is your true self as it exists in the cosmic soup of living energy in the universe. It is what most peoples of earth call God.

There is nothing fancy about seeing and feeling the witness. It’s perfectly natural, and the only truth you can know. It is actually where miracles are manifested. It’s where pure love and light exist.

Instead of listening to your ego, as it is trying to scare the hell out of you, let the witness take control of your mind. You can always recognize the witness because it only uses your mind to think thoughts of love, compassion, and kindness – kindness and love for all life on earth, and this INCLUDES YOU!

Witness the witness as it is watching you, the people around you, the air around you, the trees, the furniture, the sky, and ground and floor beneath your feet. FEEL the witness above your head fondly smiling upon you. This witness is God, Jesus, and every loving soul that has ever temporarily inhabited a body on earth.

Notice how the witness loves you and all those around you. Notice how the witness IS you. Notice how the witness is completely detached from your ego’s worrying and role playing. Feel how the witness accepts all that you are and all that you have felt in your life.

When you start hearing kind and compassionate words going through your head telling how everything is going to be O.K., you know the witness is manifesting it’s presence for you to feel.

The witness NEVER leaves you. The ego will use your mind to confuse you, scare you, and cloud over the witness. Only our ego comes and goes, and only your mind’s chatter comes and goes, judges, and frets. The witness is eternal and deathless.

Sense the witness as it watches over you with love, never judging anything good or bad. The witness knows that your temporary stress and anxiety is due the ego’s behavior, but never sees your ego as bad.

Understanding the exististance of your worrisome ego, and seeing how it is unreal, and knowing that your true self just watches what goes down, is another important step on the road to a peaceful and blissful moment in time.

So feel the witness now. If you hear negative thoughts, that is just the ego trying desperately to regain control of your moment. Don’t be concerned with ANY of your thoughts, because frankly that’s all they are – thoughts. Your mind will eventually quiet down. That is next.

Key #4 – Quiet Your Mind

Quieting your mind is another beautiful way to discover more relief. The witness described above will only use your mind for doing acts of love and kindness.

So many practices of ancient and modern times involve quieting the mind. Many experts on this subject call the quieting of mind, finding the gap. Wayne Dyer has written a short book, and it’s accompanying CD, called Getting Into The Gap, which shows another way to quiet your mind completely.

TM (or Transcendental Meditation) is arguable the best way to quiet your mind and enter your sacred realm of universal connection. I urge you to look into this method.

If you use the first 3 key steps as above you will be able to begin focusing on the quieting of your mind all together. If you are in the middle of stress and anxiety, you will need your mind active so the witnessing REAL YOU can focus your energies and attentions as above, but once you have achieved these above steps, you can then “shut your mind down”.

When you are able to quiet your mind (and it does not have to be perfect) I urge you to have a little nap. Let your body have the ultimate rest, as your mind goes along with it.

If you wake up and notice anxiety and stress rippling through your body and mind again, immediately let your witness take back control, and focus your energy back within your inner body. Start the process over.

Try finding moments of the day when you can get a few minutes alone to quiet your mind. You will be amazed at the transformation in your life. You will become very relaxed and creativity will begin to flow, as you start making the inevitable changes in your outer life – meaning relationships, jobs, surrounding, habits, recreations, and patterns.

Key #5 – Remove Time (yesterday and tomorrow)

Once you have FELT and learned the above practices, you must always remind yourself using your mind, via the witness, to completely disregard the past and the future. This may seem impossible if you have never heard something like this idea. You may think this is radical, and unrealistic, but it truly is where bliss lives.

This does not mean you don’t recall something from the past for practical purposes, or make plans for tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year. It’s means you use the past and future as POSITIVE tools to flow in your present moment. You don’t need to visit the past or anticipate the future for more than a few brief seconds a day for practical reasons. Outside of that – BURN THE PAST, and BURN THE FUTURE – they are not real. The only thing that is real is your present breath that you are taking into your body as you read this sentence.

Key #6 – Remember The Rules (you are not the form and happenings of this world around you)

Remember the rules of your true and eternal self. You are not your money (or debt), your job, your marriage, your kids, your house, your car, your reputation, your past, or fear, or your problems. Your eternal and REAL self is the witness that is watching your physical life as manifested in flesh for your experience here on earth.

I know this may sound “out there” to some readers, but this the reality of our existence. All near-death experiences documented (and there are thousands and thousands studied every year) show the reality of an eternal self that is still witnessing your physical journey (even when your body is lifeless).

Quantum physicists have long discovered that at the particle level of our bodies there is nothing but space between atoms and particles. Your body is really just an energy form. Same goes for dense objects such as rocks and minerals. There is nothing but movement at the sub-atomic level. We are extremely fluid beings at our pure physical manifestation.

You are an energy field. Plain simple fact. This is the miracle of life, and life is friendly. Never forget that you are imminently more important than your problems and life situation. Never forget that you are a miracle and you are as powerful as the universe – you just don’t know it yet.

So detach yourself from the petty games people play around you, at work, at home, in traffic, in the neighborhood, etc. etc. As you detach, make sure you detach with love and kindness. Don’t judge others as “bad”, or even “good” for that matter. Don’t judge them at all, no matter how disconnected and rude they can be. Just witness them with love and kindness. I know that this sounds “soft” and “weak” to your ego, but it is the truth. Deep inside you know this and you can feel it. Send a silent thought of understanding as other people carry out their lives trapped in their human disease of ego.

Engage yourself in your daily and momentary life, but detach from the outcomes, and all of the negative noise your fellow humans spew, and ALL of the negative noise your ego can spew.

So keep in mind that you are lighter than your body weight. Float with your breathing, and KNOW that happenings and occurrences need to not stick to you in any way. Your ego is going to fight this because it is fighting for it’s fantasy. The ego will creep in even when you are an enlightened person. The difference between the enlightened person and an unenlightened person is awareness. An enlightened person still has bad days and bad judgments when their egoic self is running the show, but they have less of them. When an enlightened person judges another person, he or she SEES it and is aware of the truth. This is the difference. Awareness.

So stay aware and detach from the forms of human life that are swirling around you.

Key #7 – Enter Your Bliss as Often As Possible

Now when you have learned to apply all of the 6 key steps above, make sure you make a habit of entering your bliss. This comes down to simple time management. Find (MAKE!) time to get yourself alone away from the noise and activities of life to go within, detach, and meditate with “the witness”. Do this as often as you can and you will find yourself stress free almost all of the time.

You WILL slip and let your ego have the day sometimes, but it will be for a short time. With your new awareness you will see what is really going on and realize that NOTHING is worth getting upset about.

Read books from writers that teach you how to enter into a peaceful state. Look for new ways to find information regarding freedom of stress and energy level peace. Enter your bliss as often as possible.

KNOW that these words are not just a poof of smoke from “a weird softy”. These words are truth and don’t come from me at all – they come from universal love. I am just the witness that is taking dictation. Nothing more. Just we all are.

Enter your bliss when you wake up. Enter your bliss on your way to work or doing chores around the house. Enter your bliss when you are preparing to go to sleep. Enter your bliss when you communicate with others, and associate with co-workers and family members.

Enter your bliss when something happens that is so-called “bad”.

Enjoy this day friend.

Jacob

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