(00:00): How do I deal with anxiety when I don't know
what is causing it? For example, I have periods of time where I wake up in the middle of the night,
not from a nightmare, but because I'm having some kind of panic attack and I have no idea why
there has been a trigger, but I can't work with that anxiety when I don't know why
I'm in that state. (00:27):
Okay. So panic attacks, anxiety in general, but especially panic attacks, panic attacks
are a little bit different than just pure anxiety. Um, so panic attack takes anxiety to an extreme,
right? We have this fight or flight reaction where there's a bunch of different physical
symptoms happening during a panic attack. So panic attacks, anxiety in general, but panic attacks,
especially, uh, a lot of times people think that panic attacks are induced by something
in the outside environment that I'm responding to. And it seems like this, this person, um,
is also seeing it that way. That's why she was saying she was asking me, you know,
how can I work if I'm waking up in the middle of the night? I have no idea what the trigger is.
And so I don't know how to work with this anxiety, cuz I don't know what the trigger is.
(01:10): So, so she seems to be under the assumption
that panic attacks are being caused by a trigger and she can't work with it and it, it can be
true. Sometimes panic attacks can be caused by a trigger. So for example, if I was, um, let's say,
you know, I, I was walking down the street one day and there was gun violence that erupted and
a bunch of people died on the street and I just cowered down and you know, this traumatizing,
I was traumatized by this event. I wasn't harmed, but I was traumatized by this event
where I witnessed a bunch of people being shot or killed around me, uh, through gun violence. And
let's say that, you know, I work through that trauma, but a year later I'm walking down the
street and I hear the pop of what sounded like a, uh, like a, a gun going off.
(01:55): And I literally just coward in the middle of the
street. Why? Because that trigger, induced a panic attack in me and I reacted immediately to that.
Okay. So here's an example of where a panic attack can indeed be induced by an external trigger. But
what I'm feeling in this question and that's it's important for people who deal with panic attacks
is to view panic attacks from a different prism than just being a reaction to an external stimuli
or an external trigger. And I know this very intimately cause this happened to me, um,
in my own life also. So I used to suffer from extremely severe panic attacks and
they would happen the majority of the time that I had panic attacks was in the middle of the night,
usually around three, uh, three o'clock in the morning, I would just literally wake up and,
and literally jump outta bed. (02:41):
I thought I was dying. And so I had very, very severe panic attacks that really struck me at
night. And one interesting things that, that I learned about panic attacks is that from a
spiritual perspective, what a panic attack can be is a too much accumulated energy that then
gets pressurized in your system. And it's like a it's like when you shake a champagne bottle,
the cork is gonna pop eventually. And that's what a panic attack is. It's when the cork pops,
which means that I was having these panic attacks because I had so much repressed trauma that I was
trying to hold down and push down that the panic attack, the cork was only able to come out in the
middle of the night when my brain was sleeping. okay. And so this is another interesting
way to look at panic attacks is to understand that there's an excess of energy being released.
(03:30): Okay. Look at a panic attack as
excess energy being released at that moment. And then you have to ask yourself, why is my body
doing that? Why is my body releasing excess and excess energy? Like why is it releasing in this
dramatic, uh, uh, way and what ha ended up happening to me? And in the thousands of
people that I've coached is that as I, long as I, that, that path, as long as I was healing,
the more that I healed, the deeper I went into my healing, the panic attacks started to disappear
until they disappeared all together. and, and what ended up happening was the moment that I,
that I accepted the invitation that the panic attacks were inviting me. This is a great way
to look at panic attacks. The panic attacks were inviting me to go deeper into healing, things that
I didn't even have conscious awareness of. (04:25):
And when I accepted the panic attack as a sign to heal, then I started to go in and in layer by
layer, I opened myself up. I asked the universe to show me what I needed to heal. Life started
to bring to the surface things that needed to be healed. And I no longer repressed them. I
no longer pushed them down. I no longer put on a mask. I no longer walled myself out. I became open
and vulnerable and I allowed all of the things that needed to be healed to come to the surface.
The more, the deeper I went through that healing, the panic attack started to go
down because the energy was no longer stagnant needing to pop out. It became fluid. It started to
move in my body. It started to circulate because I was working with it. I was transmuting it.
(05:13): I started to say to my body, into the universe,
there is nothing I'm unwilling to heal. Show me what I need to heal. And I will heal it. I'm
not afraid anymore. And I started to go into that healing. The more you go into healing,
the more you go in layer by layer, by layer saying yes to your body saying yes,
that you're gonna listen to it. That you're gonna work with the traumas. The more that you do this,
the more your body's gonna start to transmute and circulate energy, which means that it's no longer
gonna be blocked inside of you. So there's no need for it to pop out in the form of a panic attack.
Okay. And so that's been my experience. I no longer have panic attacks, but for years,
for many years, I started to have panic attacks when I was a child.
(05:54): Um, and well into my thirties. Well,
well into my thirties until, um, until I was able to work to a point where I wouldn't even call it a
panic attack, um, to today, sometimes I'll have a little bit of a trigger here and there, but I
don't really even call it panic attacks anymore. Because as soon as I notice that that there's a
tiny, tiny little whimper of a panic attack about to start, I just take a nice deep breath and I go
into the energy and I allow it to circulate and it just dissipates. It doesn't even turn into a panic
attack. Okay. But take this invitation to go into that healing, to open your energy up to healing,
allow the energy to circulate, be willing to see and to work with all of the emotions that you have
to work with that have been repressed inside of you. And the panic attacks are going to start to,
um, they're gonna start to dissipate. Okay. So I hope this helps panic attacks. You can cure panic
attacks. So it's not something you have to cope with the rest of your life. I don't really like
to use the word cope. Coping is used a lot, uh, in the health professions. I don't really like
to use it at all because I believe that panic attacks can be healed fully. Hope this helps.