Anxiety and Panic Attacks – Natural Treatment without Drugs

Have you ever felt nervous or anxious before or during a job interview or exam?  Connect with that feeling and multiply that by 10 or 100 and you may have some idea how life is for a person who feels like this during most of their daily life.

Some people who suffer from anxiety or panic attacks feel as though they have a disability as everyday activities can become a chore.  Some know what can set off an attack and others have no idea at all. I have serviced clients whose anxiety was so severe they found it difficult or impossible to leave the house.

 Toxic build up in the body can be a cause of anxiety and where a detox may help. Toxic residues may hinder the body’s ability to assimilate nutrients in the body. “Detox Without Starving Yourself” gives you everyday approaches to include in your diet which can help eliminate this toxic residues. But there are also many other possible causes of anxiety.

How Anxiety and or Panic Can Affect Ones Life

If you suffer from anxiety or panic attacks then you may have tried or experienced one or more of the following:

• Pretend that you are ‘normal’ in front of your friends, peers, and work colleagues while you are falling apart inside

• Fighting it

• Drinking to excess or use of illegal drugs

• Medication

• Avoid any situation which may set off an attack that you know is irrational but you just can’t help it

• Rationalize that you need to stop being anxious only to make yourself feel more anxious

• Wake up feeling anxious because you are afraid you will have an attack

• Many sleepless nights worrying

• Anxiety causes stress to the body and raises the cortisol levels which can impair the body’s immune system, causing it to weaken, thus causing other potential health problems and premature aging.

Cause of Anxiety and Panic Attacks

Although many sufferers do not know why they are anxious, one or more causes can be contributed to:

• Grief or losses in life

• Desire to control my world

• People pleasing

• Fearing loss of approval

• Fear of failure

• Feeling too much pressure

• Inability to produce to the level expected of me

• Radiation exposure

• If I am carefree, I’m not prepared for when something bad will happen

• Worrier

• Parasites

• Another often missed cause is magnesium deficiency.  Magnesium deficiency has been found in many anxiety sufferers and leads to the question.  Does this cause anxiety or is it the constant stress placed on the body that causes it?

Whatever the reason, the facts are, magnesium is an essential mineral that is required for proper functioning of over 100 processes in the body and brain.  Magnesium can induce feelings of calm so it is imperative to include magnesium rich foods and have magnesium baths can help calm and soothe.

Potassium is also another mineral that is of concern when deficient and has also been linked with anxiety.

By including Celtic Sea Salt in the diet is a good move to helping one with anxiety as this too can help calm the mind and body.  Celtic Sea Salt has over 77 minerals, including magnesium and potassium that are essential for the body, including the heart and brain.

How to Treat Anxiety

Since we are light and energy beings, all issues of the mind and body should be approached with a holistic view to healing.  This way, all areas are targeted and addressed i.e. diet and emotional as well as identifying areas in the energetic systems that may have disturbances.

Following are some approaches that have been found to produce very positive results:

• EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)

• Logging your worries and recognizing your strengths (itsaworry.com)

• Grounding

• Sunshine and Water

• Visualization & meditation

• Deep breathing

• Magnesium

• Affirmations

• Find something you feel passionate about and do it

• Reduce toxic exposure to foods & environment

• Exercise – releases endorphin

• Healthy eating – healthy body, healthy mind

• Believe that you are safe and release feelings of mistrust

• Sleep / Rest

• Detoxing

The important thing is to incorporate a holistic view to healing.  The holistic view encompasses the belief that we are authentic, energy and light beings, therefore the use of specific foods, colour and energy techniques are very potent and powerful ways to supercharge this process.

Anxiety need not be the controlling force in your life when you can incorporate simple authentic strategies.  By seeking a good practitioner while utilizing many of the above suggestions can assist you to induce feelings of calm, harmony, peace and trust that all is well in your world – just as you were designed to.