READING an email several years ago, and suddenly panic gripped
me like a vice. The same thing has
happened when the realisation takes hold of an important interaction I’ve had
no time to prepare for.
Times like these fear propels us into panic, and if the passage
of dread isn’t arrested a full-blown attack isn’t far away.
Arresting a full-blown panic attack depends on the person, and
for many people it’s not, and can never be as simple as being, addressed in
such an article as this. I can only
report what has helped me; one who has had panic attacks, and who’s had to
develop resources for getting through tremulous moments. You, too, may have developed your own
God-guided work-throughs.
It starts with this:
When panic takes hold don’t
forget WHO holds you: God.
God helps us when we let go of
things we were never supposed to hold onto.
Having such knowledge at the
forefront of our awareness means we have a sliver of a chance to correct our
thinking that our feelings have heavily influenced.
The mind is a strong thing. With the mind we can believe.
When we believe that this, too, shall pass, and we sit in the
panicked moment without one iota’s demand, as if believing we’re at peace, just using our mindful thoughts, we can begin
to gently settle.
The mental slide gets worse with
pressure, but as soon as we mindfully relax, by jettisoning all demand,
cognitive function gets better.
With head space comes heart
space, and where panic took hold, the brakes are released, and the freed mind
works to unbind the heart.
© 2016 Steve Wickham.
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