HOW TO DEAL WITH PANIC ATTACKS

追加: 2026-06-06

[00:00:02]Panic attacks are about the most frightening experience a human body can produce. I know, as I'm sure do you.

[00:00:10]And it's so often misunderstood. It feels like intense danger, total loss of control, like some like you're going to die, actually. Like something's gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, once you understand physiologically what's happening, it's not a malfunction of the nervous system.

[00:00:29]It's actually the nervous system attempting to regulate itself after years of repression and one-sidedness.

[00:00:36]It's been holding everything you couldn't feel and complete, often for decades, in the body and in the nervous system.

[00:00:44]So, if we think about the system like a pressure cooker, over time, that survival energy, those repressed and ignored emotions that we're not even aware of, fear, grief, rage, those defense mechanisms we couldn't allow to completion, are pushed out of awareness because they were too overwhelming at the time they were actioned, when we were younger.

[00:01:11]>> [snorts] >> The body had no safe way to complete these experiences, so it stored them.

[00:01:15]And these are real energetic charges we're talking about. And this storage unit is, of course, what we call the shadow. It's not just a metaphor, it is literally the shadow in the body.

[00:01:27]Physiologically, as well as psychologically, so the nervous system of the body tissues is holding this this very strong, unprocessed charge, which has been accumulating and building up and up and up into this huge load.

[00:01:43]Eventually, the system becomes absolutely chocker, saturated.

[00:01:48]It cannot hold a drop more.

[00:01:51]And when a small window of safety appears, this is unconscious. This doesn't feel like safety, but the self is reading it as a as a moment, an opportunity if you like.

[00:02:02]The body tries to release as much as it can. It's like getting your foot in the door.

[00:02:08]And this release is what we experience as a panic attack.

[00:02:14]To be clear, panic is not danger. Panic is this enormous pressure being released from this pressure cooker that's full.

[00:02:22]An intensity because by all its intense, it's not actually dangerous.

[00:02:28]But, the ego is terrified because what is coming now into consciousness is exactly what it had to push out of consciousness once in order to survive.

[00:02:41]And to the ego, this intensity equals threat.

[00:02:45]But, it's actually not.

[00:02:48]This intensity means more repressed energy, life force, completing.

[00:02:55]So, from the perspective of the nervous system, a panic attack is an intervention.

[00:03:03]It's the body trying to reset itself after being too one-sided, too controlled, too full, and repressed for way too long. And this is why panic is such a physical experience.

[00:03:21]Now, just to, you know, witness obviously what we all know, your breath will become rapid, staccato, gasping, panting, all sorts of combinations going through this process. This does not mean you cannot breathe. It doesn't mean you're going to suffocate.

[00:03:36]You might be doing huge gasps.

[00:03:39]What it means is the body is moving huge amounts of charge.

[00:03:46]And breath is the way that it moves this energy around the system.

[00:03:49]Your heart will be pounding as a result because the whole thing is being engineered round.

[00:03:55]Your heart may race, it may thud, it may go slow, it will go fast, heat may surge, you might feel boiling hot and sweaty, shake, dizzy, unreal, disconnected, terrified, or convinced you are about to die.

[00:04:11]This is your life force returning to consciousness.

[00:04:15]Emotions, as we know, are not thoughts.

[00:04:17]They are biological energy.

[00:04:21]Survival charge is biological energy, energy in motion.

[00:04:28]And when they finally come back after years of repression, they move with force.

[00:04:35]And what you often feel in this panic moment is fear itself that could not be felt earlier in your life, or rage, or grief, whatever.

[00:04:44]Or just pure survival energy that had no allow outlet was just frozen in time.

[00:04:51]It feels absolutely annihilating to the ego, but it's totally safe.

[00:05:00]And when it's allowed to complete, which by the way, it will because you don't really have a choice because we have panic attacks when we've been repressing, repressing, repressing, the system then settles. You'll notice it how you feel after the panic attack.

[00:05:14]So, I just want to do a small exercise here to help remind us what's happening, and to really view this as a just a massive emotional release.

[00:05:25]And we want releases. These releases of what's been compressed. This is a huge expression of life force.

[00:05:33]And if we can view it as such, and of course, we will often be offline during this process, but if you can have a conceptual understanding of what is happening, this is hugely, hugely helpful. And remember, this whole event is over in a couple of minutes.

[00:05:50]It's fast, it's furious, and it's natural.

[00:05:55]So, when a panic attack is happening, you need to immediately start naming what it is.

[00:06:04]This is my nervous system going for a big regulation. It's trying to regulate itself. It's full. And then we have to stop trying to fix the experience. And I'm telling you, once you can learn to just think, "Wow, great. I'm having a panic attack." If that tiny sliver of your mind is online, you can see it in a completely different way, and it won't feel so frightening, even if the very thing you're experiencing is raw fear.

[00:06:33]Do not try and interfere with your breath. This is a mistake so many people make, trying to slow your breath. Watch it dance.

[00:06:40]Watch it gasp. Watch your All of that stuff. Let it be fast, uneven, high, low, up here, gasping, panting, whatever it needs to be. It knows exactly what to do.

[00:06:52]The level of breathing that occurs in your body is exactly what it needs. It's how the body is circulating this energy during this discharge.

[00:07:06]Do not try and calm your heart. You're not going to have a heart attack. You're not.

[00:07:10]Do not try and track whether things are getting better or worse, whether you're calming down.

[00:07:15]Tracking just activates more control from the ego, and control just increases the fear.

[00:07:20]The fear of the fear that you're experiencing.

[00:07:23]Instead, bring your attention into the body, and place your hand on it. Place your hand on your body.

[00:07:30]Even if it's just holding your own hand, and just direct the attention there, and say to yourself, "It's okay." Even talk to talk to the ego. "It's okay, little one. It's okay. It's okay." Because this is a younger part of you that is frightened.

[00:07:46]We have to shift position from the ego to the self, to the parent.

[00:07:52]So, imagine yourself as the adult presence accompanying a younger part of you who once had to hold what's now coming into consciousness alone.

[00:08:03]If it helps, you know, just place your hand wherever just to connect with the body. It's like you being there, stroking the hair of a younger you.

[00:08:16]Stroke [snorts] yourself to indicate a calm presence, a a a somatically embodied present in the way a parent would a child, in the way you perhaps didn't have available to you earlier on in your life.

[00:08:32]Because this is the ego is a distressed child.

[00:08:35]And you can say silently, "It's safe to feel this now. I am with you. You don't have to stop. Let's do it. Let it Let it move through."

[00:08:45]Like wind moving through a wind tunnel over a car.

[00:08:55]Like a a a a a extreme weather pattern moving through your internal ecosystem.

[00:09:06]Let it move. Let the heat move. Let the breath surge. Let the waves pass through.

[00:09:12]You are not trying to endure this. You are trying to allow it to complete.

[00:09:17]And notice that even at peak intensity, something in you is witnessing something greater than the experience.

[00:09:27]And that witness is the awareness. And that is not panicking.

[00:09:33]That is the self. The self is not having a panic attack, so to speak, in the way that the ego assumes it to be. So, stay with the sensations until they naturally subside.

[00:09:45]They always do. They always always do.

[00:09:47]They always come to an end. You're not going to be in a panic attack for eternity.

[00:09:51]The nervous system cannot sustain it for long because it knows how much it can discharge to completion.

[00:09:59]The intense explosion from that pressure cooker that has reached its peak.

[00:10:06]So, after the discharge, when the panic passes, you might feel tired, empty, emotional, or even calm. This is the settling. Parasympathetic settling.

[00:10:17]And it happens when something has been somatically completed. This layer.

[00:10:23]The pressure has released.

[00:10:25]And each time panic is allowed rather than resisted, the system learns that it no longer needs to escalate to be heard.

[00:10:33]And over time, panic loses its urgency, its intensity, and eventually its reason for appearing.

[00:10:41]You will have less panic attacks, I guarantee. And when you do, you will meet them very differently.

[00:10:48]Because panic is not the enemy of healing. It is often the body's last intelligent attempt to try and get you back into the body to finish what was never allowed to complete from so long ago.

[00:11:01]And when it is met from the self, you as the parent to your self, that to reassure the ego, it becomes not just survivable, but it's transformative. It's a huge emotional update and energetic release.