Over the Christmas 2020 holiday, I decided to leave Facebook. Since that time…
In February, I stood barefoot in my front yard in the snow, clenching ice cubes in my palms, doing box breathing.
In March, I walked for miles barefoot on Richmond city sidewalks to create excruciating pain in my feet.
All because one Monday October morning, I suddenly knew I was dying, and quickly made peace with my life coming to an end.
I have been living with panic attacks for over 6 months. During this time, I’ve often questioned why the universe chose me to walk this path. Or why I unconsciously made life choices that led me here. The question of ‘why’ consumed me for months. There are many ‘whys’…and thankfully I have answered at least one of the questions.
All the work and research I have done to help myself through this challenge can help serve others.
Over the coming weeks I’m going to share not only my journey, but all the information I’ve compiled, my research, my techniques, everything. And the reason for releasing this information over the course of time has nothing to do with readership, or likes, or clicks, or money.
Quite simply, I have too much information to share in a single post. Here’s are two examples:
- Describing the power of Havening techniques (www.havening.org) I learned from New Zealand Doctor Robin Youngson via Zoom is worthy of more than a paragraph.
- It takes more than a few sentences to explain how Earthing mats (www.earthing.com) recreate the magnetic field of the Earth, and the electrons generated can penetrate your body and improve anxiety.
I don’t want to take the time to write a book on the subject and this is going to be a bit of a random walk in the weeks ahead. I want to simply post information I have collected, synthesized, and distilled into consumable chunks that people can try to help themselves through this horrible condition.
There is so much information available, and it is overwhelming. I’ve found that for someone dealing with anxiety and panic attacks (me), fewer answers are better…menus of countless options are far from productive…they are counterproductive.
What will follow in the weeks ahead will be an exploration into the techniques that have helped me.
Sharing this information will likely be therapeutic for me. I do also feel a responsibility to help others. I feel this way because the more I have shared my challenges with people, the more people I have learned silently share these same challenges and are overwhelmed by what they can do to improve their situation.
I am doing this for them.
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