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30 posts Jamiej 30 posts
Jamiej
I've heard that after we suffer from something traumatic (maybe your first panic attack or maybe something else) we generate a whole  load of energy. All that energy gets trapped inside you, and your body wants to release it. However whenever it attempts to release it, we try to stop it adding more energy and staying in a loop where the energy wants to come out, but whenever it does we see it as a threat and thus get stuck. Last night I had a panic attack, triggered by being in the same place as before and a memory. This time I just laid there and observed it. Wow, how harmless is this I thought. I then pretended I was doing a work presentation to see how I'd deal with it. "Wow this is easy, I just need to focus on the details of the presentation not what's happening inside" I noticed my body and mind were now relaxed with nothing I'd had to do other than accept and move on. So today I'm not testing and checking, I have no reason to. When my mind reminds me of it happening (which it will do so fresh in one's mind) I don't get a huge surge of first fear. Each time you allow this to happen you are doing 2 things. 1. Letting the tension and energy out....2. not adding tension to it. Accepting and allowing it to do what it likes really does allow you to heal. All along it wasn't this terrible thing, it was trying to fight, stop and control this harmless thing that created the suffering. When you meet it, it's like Nathan once said to me "a paper tiger", the terrible thing seemed so terrible because you thought it was and the reaction caused all the suffering, so it was the terrible reaction and nothing else. In other words it was us doing it to us all along with our false belief and negative reaction. When you discover this it loses so much of it's power. But I can't emphasise enough how you will only see this by facing it, no matter how much you believe in the science. Believing isn't enough, you have to go through it with 100% no second fear, because you will definitely have first fear. Respond to first fear in this way and over time time 1st fear has no purpose and you will become fearless wherever panic is concerned. You have 100% control over panic, fact. As Jeff says, giving up control gives you control. I hope that enspires somebody today. 
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AldenW 402 posts
AldenW
Awesome read, Jamiej! Good stuff 😊
Nathan
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jeff Moderator 4,066 posts
jeff

Thanks Jamiej. 

Energy, tension, adrenaline, cortisol can all be related to fear/overwhelmed and the desire/work to control it. I guess “energy” would be how physicists would describe the situation. 
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Jamiej 30 posts
Jamiej
Yes I think so Jeff. But even when you are recovered you'll continue to release this tension as you would be completely overwhelmed if it all happened at once. Your mind/body won't start to release it unit it thinks you are ready, which may explain setbacks? It was a topic I read a while ago (albeit vaguely). The body is always trying to release emotions. If we don't they get trapped inside. The only way to release it is to feel it. It's an interesting subject. They even say it gets trapped in our joints and tissues as energy. Acceptance = release of energy. 
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Bearspectacle 79 posts
Bearspectacle
Great stuff.
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carl87 56 posts
carl87

Couldn’t agree more Jamiej!
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