| Anxiety Attack Relief Secret #1. Splash cold water on | | | | diminish. |
| panic. | | | | Anxiety Attack Relief Secret #3. Aromatherapy. |
| Splashing some cold water on your face to stop a | | | | Aromatherapy garners skepticism and derision by the |
| panic attack is one of the oldest, but most often | | | | uninformed, but the fact is, for relieving panic attacks, it |
| forgotten, methods of stopping a panic attack. During | | | | actually works. It is useful to keep a few inexpensive |
| an attack, your autonomic nervous system sends | | | | essential oils handy for relieving the severe anxiety |
| oxygen and glucose to skeletal muscles so that they | | | | associated with an attack. |
| can help you flee the situation. There may not be | | | | A few drops of lavender oil applied directly to the |
| enough oxygen circulating to your brain to keep your | | | | forehead (don't drink lavender oil) will stop a headache |
| "executive function" centers optimally active. Splashing | | | | and relieve a panic attack. The Bach Flower Essences |
| cold water in your face activates a dive reflex that | | | | have been used to stop panic attacks and anxiety in |
| redirects oxygen to your brain where it is needed, | | | | both humans and animals for over 75 years. The |
| helping you use reason to control the situation. | | | | Rescue Remedy, combining essences of impatiens, |
| Anxiety Attack Relief Secret #2. Breathe in relaxation, | | | | Star of Bethlehem, cherry plum, rock rose, and |
| breathe out anxiety. | | | | clematis is especially useful for dealing for panic |
| Another way to get oxygen flowing to your brain is to | | | | attacks related to post-traumatic stress disorder and |
| take deep breaths in but to exhale them completely. | | | | for a panic attack triggered by getting bad news, such |
| You build positive pressure throughout your lungs by | | | | as a test score or a doctor's diagnosis. |
| breathing in all the air your lungs can hold. Then you | | | | Just as "one size does not fit all" applies to buying |
| expel all the "used" air from your lungs by exhaling | | | | shoes, "one remedy does not cure all" applies to |
| through your mouth to a count of eight, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, | | | | choosing a way to answer the question of how to |
| 8. Once you have practiced this technique a few | | | | stop panic attacks. The best remedy for attacks is the |
| times, you will no longer need to count. A long | | | | one that makes the user feel the most comfortable. |
| exhalation produces lower air pressure that will draw | | | | Any of these three simple remedies, however, is sure |
| back fresh, oxygenated air throughout your lungs. | | | | to help. |
| After a minute or two, the sense of panic will greatly | | | | |