Have you ever had a panic attack before? If you have, like I have, you know how incredibly
difficult it is. I can't wait to share with you one amazing tool that I have found that has
instantly stopped my panic attacks and that is this thing here... if you're curious what the heck
this thing is and how to use it to instantly stop your panic attacks keep on watching. Hi
my name is Naza and welcome back to my channel. I am so happy to have you here with me today.
So if you've been following my journey you might have seen my video that I posted on YouTube a few
months ago about my panic attack and my anxiety and depression story. If you haven't seen it yet,
I'll link it for you in the description down below and in the cards up above but, long story short,
I was at a point in my life not that long ago where I was having up to five panic attacks per
day, if you can believe it, and each one will last anywhere between 30 to 90 minutes... sometimes even
two or three hours and I'm going to be totally honest with you, it was one of the most difficult
things I've ever experienced in my entire life... and I tried everything. I tried everything to heal
and finally, I found a natural system of healing... so I share a lot more about that in the video that
I just mentioned but today what I want to share with you is a really quick and effective technique
you can use to instantly stop a panic attack and, if you don't have panic attacks this can also help
reduce and calm anxiety if, instead, you have generalized anxiety disorder without panic
attacks which is also very common. Today first things first, before I say anything else, what
I want you to know is that you are not alone. I am right here with you and I know how difficult
this can be because I have been there and I am so grateful to tell you that today I hardly ever
have panic attacks anymore, maybe once every six months and that is totally fine with me because
I know how to manage them when they happen... and you can get to that point too! I promise
you will not be in this state forever this will pass, you will heal and I will be with you every
step of the way, I love you so much and you are doing great. Just keep going one step at a time...
but just to know if anyone ever tells you that what you're experiencing is not real or not valid
they are totally misinformed and they just can't relate because they've never experienced
it themselves but, you've experienced it and I've experienced it, and that's why you and I,
were like this and we're going to get through this together. So first of all, what is a panic attack?
A panic attack is when you begin to feel this really, really, really anxious feeling and your mind
gets stuck on thinking about nothing else but how anxious you're feeling and whatever it is that you
might be afraid of in that moment and, sometimes panic attacks are triggered by a specific event
and sometimes they just come on out of nowhere... and both of them are valid experiences. So some common
symptoms of a panic attack are: rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, maybe a
tight constricting feeling in the throat or on the chest... sometimes even chest pain and oftentimes a
lot of people actually mistake having a panic attack for a heart attack and they'll go to the
emergency room and it turns out they're having a panic attack not a heart attack... so it's important
to know the symptoms but, if you are ever in doubt about what's going on with your body,
go to the emergency room go seek professional help! But if you've had panic attacks before, you
know what they are and you're just looking for a way to help you stop them, even instantly stop them,
I have a really good technique and tool that has worked amazingly for me. Now, since one
of the really common symptoms of having a panic attack is that really short shallow breathing, the
what we can do is actually change our breathing pattern consciously
using our conscious mind and that will signal to our body and to our brain that we are okay, we are
safe and it will instantly reduce the panic, reduce that sense of doom and fear and bring your body
back to a place of balance and homeostasis. So the key is to change your breathing and, easier said
than done when you're in the middle of a panic attack, I know, that's why I use this tool and
I'll show you how to use this in a second... isn't it so cute? But, before I get there, let me tell you a
little bit more about the breathing and why this is so effective in reducing your panic attacks.
So we have two systems connected to our brain and body that takes care of us: the sympathetic nervous
system and the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is known as our
fight and flight response and the parasympathetic nervous system is known as our rest and digest
response. Now what happens in a panic attack is our sympathetic system has taken over and it has put
us into this very hyper-vigilant fear state and this is great if, for example, we were living in
the wild and a lion was chasing us... but in everyday occurrences this reaction
does not necessarily match what is happening around us and so what we want to do is we want to
activate our parasympathetic nervous system which will bring our body back down to a calm state. Now
imagine running away from a lion for a second. How are you breathing? Right, you're breathing really
fast and really hard because you're running or maybe you're fighting... but if you are just relaxed
how do you breathe? You breathe really slow, really deep, deep from your diaphragm, right? So when we're
breathing like that it's a signal to the brain that 'oh everything must be fine. I must be safe if
I have the ability and opportunity to breathe like this in this moment' so it's actually this reverse
messaging we're giving to our brain through control of our body. So if you're in the midst
of a panic attack, it's really hard to get your mind off of the fear and worry you're experiencing
and just focus on breathing and that's why I'm sure you've seen in movies, tv shows, so many places
people being given a brown paper bag to breathe in when they're having a
panic attack or when they're hyperventilating. Hyperventilating... why did I say it like that?
... When they're hyperventilating. Now the brown paper bag actually serves two purposes...
what it does is it focuses your brain and your mind on your breathing. It pulls you out
of your own body, helps you focus on something external to you so you're not just focusing on the
fear, the panic and all of those physical symptoms your body is currently experiencing and that is
very powerful. The second thing the brown paper bag does, actually, is it helps you breathe back
in carbon dioxide. SO we breathe in oxygen and we exhale carbon dioxide normally and naturally and
when we're hyperventilating we are exhaling too much carbon dioxide and it actually changes the
chemistry of our blood which is not a good sign. And so what we can do with the brown paper bag is
we breathe out carbon dioxide and we breathe that carbon dioxide back in and it helps to rebalance
those levels in our blood. But today doctors are recommending to never ever, ever, use this brown
paper bag technique or method anymore because what can actually happen is if you're having a
panic attack that reabsorption of carbon dioxide is helpful but, if you're having a heart attack,
for example, and you don't know it's a heart attack you think it's a panic attack that inhalation of
extra carbon dioxide can be really bad for you... so do not use the brown paper bag technique. Instead
what we're going to do is we're going to use this little gadget, this little tool, to utilize the same
effect of taking our mind outside of ourselves and focusing on something external that's going
to help us focus on our breathing and change our breathing patterns. Now what is this device?
So this device is really cool and it's actually a little monitor that measures your heartbeat and it
also measures your blood oxygen levels simply by sticking your finger in here and then it gives you
a reading. So what I do when I have a panic attack, is I grab this device, I pop it on my finger and I
watch the numbers and as I'm watching the numbers, my goal is to change my pattern of breathing that
will bring the numbers back to a desirable level. So for your heart rate, you want your heart rate to
be somewhere between 60 to 100. This is variable and changes depending on your age, and your gender
and these different things so I'll pop a chart up for you here so you can find your desirable
heart rate and, in general, for the blood oxygen levels we want our blood oxygen levels to be 97
or 98 percent saturated or higher and that is the goal. So what you'll see when you're having a
panic attack is those numbers will be all over the place, and it's going to be different for everybody,
but your goal is to use this little gadget and focus on changing your breathing pattern until
you can get these numbers back to that desirable normal range. So the first is a very, very simple
technique. It's called the box technique... and what you do is you breathe in for a count of four.
One two three four... you hold for a count of four... One two three four.. you exhale for a count of four..
One two three four... and you hold that exhale for a count of four... One two three four and
you repeat that box four count pattern over and over and over again until you feel your panic
attack reducing and until your numbers read that desirable rate and level that you were looking
for. And when you're doing that really taking deep breaths, allow the air to flow through your lungs
down into your diaphragm, expand and extend your lungs and diaphragm and this is going to help
rebalance the oxygen / carbon dioxide levels in your brain and your body. The second technique
is called the Bear Breathing Technique and this is something that has helped me so much
but I won't get too much into it... if you're interested in learning more about the Bear
Breathing Technique, send me a DM on Instagram or, send me an email and let me know and I am
happy to share more about that with you but, through all of these techniques I want you to
keep referring back to your finger gadget and keep focusing on the numbers... so hold it in front of you,
watch the numbers as they're changing. This is going to really help take you out of that panic
state and focus your mind on something external to you and give you a sense of control. A huge
underlying psychological reason for panic attacks is that everything feels out of control so if you
can take back control over one thing you can take back control over your breathing and therefore,
consciously change your physiology to change your blood oxygen levels back to a healthy level
and change your heart rate back to a normal rate you have control again, you have power and that
sense of control and power allows you to feel calm and grounded and centered again and brings you
out of that panic state. I will link this finger monitor for you down below in my description box
this one is from my dad actually, so it's an older one but I have found some amazing ones with really,
really great reviews for you on amazon and I'll link that for you down below... not sponsored at all
but I am an amazon associate so if you use my amazon link a little bit will go to me
at no extra charge to you but feel free to use that link or not it's totally up to you
this thing is a game changer though. Thank you so much for being here with me today! Please give this
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