Title: Winning Over Anxiety
Tags: fear winning panic attack anxiety
Blog Entry: When we are “hit” by a panic attack we are lucky to have a choice; we can run from the panic or we can fight the panic. Running means avoiding and escaping. We can avoid and escape by simply staying home and finding things to do that will keep us busy and distract us from the panic until it fades and then we get back to being our regular selves. However, fighting means using weapons to destroy the panic or wound it badly enough to keep it at a distance. How can we “hurt” panic? We hurt it by forcing it to be seen for what it really is...our fear. It is our fear rising up and the real weapon to use against it, is our intelligence telling us, “Yes, it is fear, but I am the one who has the fear, so I can be the one to win over it. It is in me but I am bigger than one part of me. The great wisdom of Chinese fighting teaches us that the one who swings at you will get knocked down because you turned his strength against him. He swings at you. You can run and hide. Or, you can take his swing and make it into even more of a swing. You grab the hand that is swinging at you and you add your own force to it and throw his swing into an even stronger one and he wasn’t ready for that, so he loses his balance. When his balance is lost he will fall down or he is then easily knocked down. By the time he tries to get up, you are already aware of your own power. Your weapon is his power turned against him combined with your own power also against him. You make him lose to two forces. In a panic attack or an anxiety attack, you can take the power of the attack and combine it with your own power and smother it. You can make it fight two opponents. How? Perhaps it’s a very good idea to allow the panic and the anxiety to rise up and allow it to be scary looking. In the middle of it looking so out of control, you smile at it. You look it straight in the eye and you smile at it. Inside, you are saying, “This is not the big bad boy I thought it was! In my life I have already survived MUCH worse than this! I can therefore easily handle this. This is like a puddle on my way to the store. Am I going to turn around and run back home because of a puddle of water? I can step around it, jump over it, or even stomp and jump in it, but man, I am going to the store anyway, and when I buy what I want, I’m going back home. I will not allow this obstacle to interfere with my life, not on my there and not on my way back! Period!” Now, that is the real you. Of course you have fears. Your biggest hero also has fears, of course. It is a normal human emotion. But you have been through so much in life to get to your age, you are not going to let this particular fear rule over you. In fact, you are going to rule over this fear. You are the adult. You will show yourself that you are the boss. You will win. On and on, my dear and powerful friends. On and on!
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