How Meditation Can Help Stop Anxiety and Panic Attacks

If you worry about when the next anxiety or panic attack may come on, I have good news for you. I use to spend countless hours and days in a state of low level anxiety wondering when something might happen that would trigger an attack…and wishing I could do something to stop it.

What was most worrisome was the apprehension that I experienced every morning when I started my car. I had a severe panic attack while driving one Saturday afternoon and just barely was able to pull over to the side of the street and call my wife fro help. What would happen I fretted, if an attack came on and I was driving on a major freeway in Los Angeles where we live. I was certain that if one did, it might be a disaster.

The idea of meditating to control or end panic and anxiety attacks was introduced to me by a holistic practitioner who suggested that I learn how to mediate the right way and use it as a tool on a daily basis, and especially prior to driving, as a way to stop the onset of an attack.

My attacks were such an awful experience that I was willing to try almost anything. Had the practitioner suggested I eat pebbles and dance on my head I would have given it a try. Anything was better than having another attack…especially while driving a car!

I took the advice to heart, learned to mediate the right way and put it to work as a “tool”, as suggested. Since incorporating this approach into my daily routine I am happy to say that I have not experienced another anxiety attack nor panic attack while driving. It’s simple and ever so calming and peaceful.

Let’s take a look at what mediation is and how you may be able to benefit as well

Meditation is a calming and relaxing tool that you may find is very helpful in dealing with the symptoms that trigger a panic attack or anxiety attack causing heart palpitations, difficulty catching your breath, dizziness or a sensation that you are about to faint or even die, accompanied by very intense anxiety and panic.

It’s is a way to manage stress where you can envision calm and happy thoughts to soothe your brain, body and spirit. Learning how to deal with the stress inherent in everyday life via meditation may help you experience an inner peace and relief for the symptoms triggering an anxiety or panic attack.

Done regularly, you can eliminate negative thoughts and replace them with positive, serene images. This may help you lessen or eliminate the effects of negative stress which produce anxiety and panic attacks. Peaceful and stress free thoughts contribute to a healthy body and immune system, protecting you from sickness, disease and those ever unpleasant panic attacks.

Some forms of meditation, such as that which is practiced in the Raja yoga meditation philosophy emphasizes radiating peace and light to others and all the world. Practicing Raja yoga meditation may help you avoid anxiety and panic attacks.

If you experience inner peace in your brain, heart and soul, you will be positioned to fend off any potential negative stress factor that may trigger an anxiety attack in a person who has not become centered spiritually.

Here are the basics of meditation as taught to me:

•Enter a quiet environment where there are no distractions.

•Sit comfortably with your legs in a ninety degree angle.

•Breathe naturally.

•Quiet your mind and focus on peaceful happy thoughts and images.

•Start for fifteen minutes and gradually increase your meditation time.

Take some time and incorporate meditation into your daily routine. It’s very powerful once harnessed and the benefits from this simple and almost ancient therapy is one that can help you stop your panic and anxiety attacks once and for all.

Give it a try. It worked for me, and may be able to help you as well.!