Is there an alternative? The answer to this question is yes. The answer is to take a holistic approach to the treatment and management of anxiety attacks and episodes. The sufferer will have strategies in place where they can identify the onset of an anxiety attack by keeping a comprehensive diary that identifies certain triggers that lead to an episode.

Once the triggers are identified the sufferer is then armed with valuable information in preventing or minimizing the attack. Such alternative treatment might include deep breathing exercises, cognitive therapy techniques such as conditioning or avoiding the circumstances surrounding the onset of a trigger.

Alternative treatment, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can be treated with herbal remedies. These include

vitamin intake, herbal tea and aromatherapy. As with anxiety treatments they can consist of exercises, diet, deep breathing, massage and yoga.

While alternative treatments might not sound that effective it is a reality that alternative treatments form an arsenal of techniques and strategies in dealing with panic anxiety attacks. The treatment prepares your body to deal with these episodes.

Lets look at a few examples. Starting with lifestyle can you imagine being over weight, lethargic, poor condition, smoking, caffeine intake to high, suferring blood pressure and a high heart rate. Generally you might feel unwell from lack of exercise. Therefore if you take steps to exercise then you are preparing your body and making it stronger than it was before.

You will feel good about yourself, your stamina will be better and you would not be feeling generally unwell.

My next example is deep breathing and how to breathe deeply when you’re nervous.

I offer a tested 4-step routine:

1. Exhale completely, as if you’re blowing out the candles on a very big birthday cake.

2. Bend over. This expels the last bits of air from your lungs. When you’re totally out of air, don’t let any air come into your throat.

3. Stand up. This increases lung volume, so air will want to flow into your lungs, but don’t breathe. Wait until your body needs a breath 10 seconds or so.

4. Then, when you can’t take much more,

breathe. Your body will have moved over from your normal, everyday breathing to unregulated, autonomic response breathing.

That’s it. Once you let your body take that unregulated breath in step 4, it sort of reboots your lungs, and the nervous, holding-pattern breathing becomes a thing of memory.

By taking a holistic approach I mean taking a whole of life approach where you enhance your diet, your lifestyle and your fitness level. It is by reducing other factors such as no exercise that you are preparing your self to be stronger both in body and mind to deal with anxiety, panic attacks or suffering syndromes such as IBS.

Terry Glass has been a suferrer of

anxiety attacks for many years and speaks openly about his experiences and provides real strategies to deal with anxiety or panic attacks. Herbal remedies are discussed as well as other lifestyle strategies in dealing with these conditions. The main website can be found at [http://www.anxietyremedy.info/ ]Anxiety treatment alternative remedies

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