Alternative Treatment For Anxiety & Panic Attacks
There are alternative treatments for anxiety and panic that don’t require medications. Use these ideas the next time you feel anxiety growing.
1. Do your best to relax. Feeling anxiety’s approach can bring on tension, and that’s only going to increase the feeling of panic. Try to focus on breathing slowly and steadily and thinking only of the breathing. Work at making your breathing even and slow; this will help slow your heart rate.
2. If you can, find a place along a wall where you can lie down. Lie with your backside near the wall, and bend your knees with your feet against the wall. Using one foot at a time, press into the wall, breathing in as you press. As your release the foot from the wall, breath out. Alternate you feet. This should take about 15 minutes for the feeling of panic to leave.
3. Focus on something other than the past. Look at shapes and colors, even the skyline outside your window, anything to take the focus away from the upsetting thoughts of the past.
4. If you have a pet, put your focus on petting or taking care of it. If you don’t have a pet, consider getting one. They have an amazing way of requiring that you take care of them, meaning your focus will be redirected from the anxiety causing thoughts to their care.
5. Investigate aromatherapy. There are a number of scents that have a calming affect, most notably lavendar. Try visiting a local shop and test the effect each scent has on you.
These are just a few of the ways to relax ourself and use natural methods to avoid those feelings of anxiety, or to stop them before you go into a full blown attack.