Stress and Panic Attacks - How to Reduce Stress to Avoid Panic Attacks

How to Reduce Stress to Avoid Panic Attacks

When we lose focus, we allow stress to settle in and then domino effect of depression, anxiety takes over and that ultimately has a negative effect or our overall health. Stress is one of the main ingredients in illnesses such as diabetes, heart attacks and of course anxiety attacks.

So how do we combat stress? Well let's first understand that there are two forms of stress. Good stress and bad stress.
Good Stress will keep you alert of matters. It's a short term effort from your body to handle pressure situations. For example, a vicious dog is charging down the street towards you, the good stress will make you react and get out of the way.

All your senses go to work, your adrenaline gets high, muscles get pumped and your heart beats fast and your mind makes the decision causing you to react. So in essence stress can be your body's emergency alert announcement.

Bad Stress is the prolong use of all those instances listed in Good Stress. With bad stress, your body remains in a pressured state. This causes blood pressure to remain high which causes continued elevations of sugar, cholesterol and the like to take residence in the blood stream.

What are the symptoms of bad stress? Stress itself is a symptom. You always have this anxious feeling about you. Other symptoms are the tense neck, bad and often headaches. Stress can be a contributor more chronic headaches such as migraines.

So what are some easy ways to regain focus and ease the stress in your life? Create an organization program for yourself.
How?

Stress and Panic Attacks - How to Reduce Stress to Avoid Panic Attacks

• Take two hours out of your weekend schedule to prepare for the up coming work week

• Cook and freeze healthy meals in advance so that you can always have lunch ready for work. ( This is also great for budgets)

• Create a budget. Ensure that you always pay yourself first. Even if it's only five dollars a week, pay yourself first.
Next, gain control to regain focus. Understanding that we don't control others actions gives us new life to focus on the one thing we can control, ourselves.

• Do what you can with what you have, the rest is out of your control, accept that

• Think in the positive, it allows your to regain strength

• Understand that these are small temporary learning obstacles that you can overcome
Here are a few ideas to help you out throughout the day.

• Keep a small copy of your family or love ones on you at all times. It's a great reference point when you feel like giving in

• Keep in small container of your favorite lotion or scent with you at all times. When you're feeling down put just a touch of it behind your ear. Sometime we just need a sweetness in the air to lift us up

• Drink a tall glass of ice water. Nothing compares to the refreshment of water. From the moment you start drinking it, the cool bring you to another level.

• Take deep meaningful breathes. When you inhale think positive, when you exhale feel positive.
Planning and preparation can greatly reduce our stress. Taking along positive reminders of the things we cherish in life can help us refocus and handle many pressures relieving ourselves of undo stress.
Leslie Rojan is the Founder/Editor of Strawberrie Martini Presents... "Me Time" - The Gift Every Woman Needs. This site is dedicated to women.

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