If anybody on this list is having difficulties with panic attacks, I'd like to offer my services. I'm a meditation instructor. I could teach you techniques over the phone to help you calm down, relax and mellow out whenever you feel an attack coming on. Bobbie
Smile Everyday > On Sep 29, 2015, at 8:30 PM, Bryce Willis <lwillis82...@msn.com> wrote: > > Don, that is one of the best posts I have read in a long time! Intelligent, > passionate, informative, and captivating. I agree that panic is entirely > mental, but oh what power it has! Your third paragraph really hits home > because I've experienced the same thing. It is the helplessness, the anger, > the fear, the heart and blood pounding irrationally in the ears, and the > exploding head that set things off. Thanks for sharing, Don. Embrace the > night and all that it brings, Calm my soul as the night bird sings. > Sent from my iPad > > Begin forwarded message: > >> Resent-From: quad-list@eskimo.com >> From: Danny Hearn <ddh...@sbcglobal.net> >> Date: September 29, 2015 at 7:09:15 PM EDT >> To: Don Price <donpric...@yahoo.com>, Larry Willis <lwillis82...@gmail.com>, >> "quad-list@eskimo.com" <quad-list@eskimo.com> >> Subject: Re: Fwd: [QUAD-L] Getting Old, Panic >> Reply-To: Danny Hearn <ddh...@sbcglobal.net> >> >> Well said Don, I think you are right , I used to get panic attacks and many >> times it can be related to the fear of dying or loss of control, like you >> said try to find a way to control as much as possible then try to learn ways >> to calm the mind....like you said Tv or etc., Myself I think praying helps >> me plus trying to stay positive as much as one can. Dan H** >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 3:34 PM, Don Price <donpric...@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> I think a large factor in panic attacks is related to loss of control (e.g. >> inability to get up, turn, etc.) I've learned that if you can find ways of >> controlling as many things in your environment -- especially while in bed -- >> it greatly helps reduce panic/anxiety attacks. Examples: raising and >> lowering your bed independently, ability to control room temperature or a >> fan, ability to control tv/radio/lights and especially the ability to use >> the phone and computer. All of these things are possible using today's >> technology. If you are able to control things around you I believe you will >> feel less anxious. However, I'm not a doctor and I don't even play one on TV. >> >> I remember my first anxiety attack; it occurred one night while I was in the >> acute care hospital after my diving accident. I was still in a halo-like >> device and completely immobile. I began to feel the walls closing in on me >> and the panic set in. Somehow, I managed to flip through the TV channels >> and, mercifully, I found a movie that held my attention and calmed me down. >> To this day that miracle film is still one of my all-time favorite movies -- >> it's not that it's all that special cinematically, but it holds a special >> place in my heart for calming my soul that dark night in 1982. The movie is: >> Jeremiah Johnson. >> >> The only other times I get these anxiety attacks is when I roll myself too >> far at night and end up face-down in my bed, unable to roll back over. For >> one thing it's hard to breathe, but secondly it puts me back in the memory >> of floating face-down in the water when I had my diving accident. I was >> fully conscious and floated face down, unable to move for what seemed like >> minutes, although it may have been seconds. Very scary stuff, and I wouldn't >> wish that kind of panic on anyone. Sometimes, when I hear news stories about >> an earthquake where people are buried alive, I think about the people under >> that rubble and how they must have that same feeling of horror being unable >> to move and breathe. Nightmare inducing. >> >> OK, now let's think of something more positive: if we still have trouble >> with panic attacks, instead of relying on drugs we might want to check into >> hypnosis or meditation techniques. I've thought about doing this many times, >> but haven't. The power of the mind is amazing; if we can learn techniques to >> shut off the negative thoughts we will be better able to avoid the worry, >> panic, anxiety. >> >> This morning I was driving to pick up a friend. As I pulled my Honda into >> her parking lot the sun was just rising and I was driving east, looking >> straight into the orange-yellow glow. My windshield was dusty so I hit the >> fluid button and the wiper solvent sprayed onto my window. For a brief >> moment I witnessed a tiny rainbow prism in the mist, against the morning >> sky, and then, as if by magic, a hummingbird flew in view and hovered, for a >> second, right in front of me. The beauty of that moment was so moving that I >> literally said thanks to God. If I saw that scene in a movie I would say it >> was over-the-top hokey, but it actually happened. The next time I'm >> panicking I'll try to recall that image of the hummingbird in the rainbow in >> the morning sun. Of course, Jeremiah Johnson might laugh at me, but Robert >> Redford would understand. >> >> Don P. >> Tempe, AZ >> >>
