Overcoming anxiety and panic attacks

Anxiety must be one of the worst things to experience especially if you don’t know what to expect and you are in a crowded bus or a train and fear that you might make a fool of yourself in front of people you don’t know.  Know one thing; that the fear starts in your head. You entertain it. Pretty soon you are breathing funny and fear that you might faint. You may experience dry mouth and pant with anxiety as you hurriedly try to get off at the nearest station, and have something to drink. Your legs feel wobbly. You make it to the nearest toilet and flop down on the seat wondering what is happening to you. You sit down and shake and take some deep breaths. Your heartbeat returns to normal. You are grateful to be alive, and you are, but you have just caused great stress to your body.

Understanding the insidiousness of anxiety

Knowing that a panic attack will eventually subside can go a long way towards helping you keep control in the midst of panic. This writer has suffered from anxiety and panic attacks since childhood and has worked endlessly on trying to overcome fear and coming to terms with the fact that there is good stress and bad stress and that we all have a little bit of each. In a nutshell, the bad stress can lead to high blood pressure and hypertension, not to mention cardiac arrest and other medical conditions, and good stress is stress that we all experience when we rush to do something fun or want our favorite football or hockey team to win or when we are part of an exciting event.

You want to avoid feeling constantly anxious and the best way to counter anxiety is to learn how to manage your stress by taking fifteen minute breaks with meditation and deep breathing exercises. The breathing helps control your blood pressure, and what you want ideally is to know how to deal with panic when you fear you might have an episode coming on. Something that I have always kept in mind in stressful situations is that NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO ME; that my fear is all in my head; that I can control my anxiety, even in a crowded bus, by tuning out and taking deep breaths, and slowly exhaling. In any situation, you can take these long breaths, even in a car. You will notice in time that the hard breathing subsides and that you feel back to normal. You should go online and read up on how you can deal with your anxiety. Also check out natural remedies to halt your anxiety and stave off anxious events before they happen.

Super brain food for breakfast

Do you know that your brain needs oil? Do you know the value of nuts such as raw sunflower seeds, raw pumpkin seeds, raw flax seeds, raw sesame seeds, raw almonds and linseed? Grind a tablespoon of each of these ingredients together, add it to a glass of warm water and drink within five minutes for a revitalizing start to your day. Chew the seeds to avoid waste and to give your brain a full-on health explosion. This would be a particularly good brain food for sufferers of Parkinson’s and Alzheimers.

Understanding the nuts and bolts of raw nuts

Centuries ago people had no cars, no telephones, no factories with smoking chimneys, no around-the-clock radiation from cell phones and laptops and no pollution. Hunter gatherers ate the wild berries and nuts they picked from trees. They were the super vegetarians and survived. Today we have four-year-olds with cell phones and play stations and all kinds of computer games requiring electricity, and our bodies are polluted by smoke and radiation not to mention the ingestion of sugary and fatty foods which are bad for us. Figure it out. We are toxic human beings.

Have a gang-buster approach to good health

·                     Take charge of your body and decide today to rid yourself of toxins and feed your body only with the nutrients it needs.

·                     Read up on the super brain foods and nuts you have to eat for good hair, supple skin, fewer aches and pains, and a sharp memory. You will find all the nuts mentioned above play a part.

·                     Eat a healthy brain food breakfast such as the one mentioned above, have a salad and some protein for lunch, or if you prefer, have another nutty meal drink. Make sure to eat a healthy supper consisting of vegetables and protein.

·                     Cut out ALL sugar and biscuits and chocolates. You will find that the sugar coming from the mangos and other fruit will be enough for you.

·                     When dishing up your food, have half the plate with veggies and the other half divided in two, for either chicken or beef. Don’t mix your meats.

·                     Drink a lot of water, especially after the chewy nuts you’ve ingested.

·                     If you include a colon cleanse in your regime, the best way to go about it is to have it no more than once or twice a year. Remember, the colon has its own good bacteria to protect it and you don’t want to interfere with the flora.

·                     If you’re overweight and want to lose pounds, this is an excellent form of eating to not only help you lose weight, but to eat healthily and consistently without getting bored and snacking on chips or cake. I am eating this way now for a week, am not hungry in between meals, and have lost three pounds.

Overcoming the hype and fear of colon cleansing

Often when people hear the words colon cleansing they conjure up all sorts of images of buckets and water hoses and volcanic eruptions and bad smells. I used to be a skeptic myself until I was forced to take a hard look at my health. I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s just a few weeks ago. I was shocked. How could I have Parkinson? That was an old person’s disease. All I did was go to the doctor to ask about the occasional trembling of my right hand, and two days later I had a brain MRI and was told I had this debilitating disease. I became ill just at the thought that I could have such an illness and stayed in bed for two days feeling sorry for myself.

On the third day I got up and snapped out of my depression. I embraced my disease and went online and read everything about Parkinson’s and its symptoms and learned that it was a degenerative brain disease. The word degenerative was interesting; we were all degenerating, some faster than others, but all getting older nevertheless. I had a decision to make. I was told that Parkinson’s wasn’t something to play with. That I was in the early stages and if I took the conventional medication early enough that the disease could still be halted.

Colon cleansing treatment a gift

I decided to go the wellness route first. I would try natural and alternative remedies recommended to me by a homeopath or naturopath and first see how well that went before turning to conventional medicine. As it happened, I met a couple who practiced natural healing and these people said to me that they could help me. I was skeptical, and told them that there was no free lunch, and I was happy to pay for the treatment. They said, no, they wanted nothing; only that if I could help someone else in the future, that I should help them.

The treatment

I placed my faith in them and saw them every day for a week, drank the clay and husk mixture, drank the banana, apple and mango smoothies, ate the seven nutty ingredients which I ground in a grinder and sprinkled over fruit and Greek yoghourt. One of the treatments for this healing of my mind, my soul, my heart, my wellbeing, included having a colon cleansing which was done in serene surroundings where you had a pleasant lukewarm water rinse-out of the colon. This took about twenty minutes and the only shock I experienced was the shock of seeing how much unwanted waste we all carried around; it gave new meaning to the word impacted – pounds and pounds of hardened matter, weighing our bodies down, making us feel ill with all the toxins.

A colon cleanse was a way to remove waste and toxins. I had been scared to have it, but with more knowledge of the procedure my fear was groundless. Patients came out of the water room with smiling faces. The water lady was a sweet woman who inserted the thin little plastic probe, made sure the towel covered my knees, told me to relax and that she would be just outside the door if I needed her. You do this on your own, she said, because you heal yourself as you let go of all this muck. Think of your brain, the same shape as a walnut. Imagine new cells forming and regenerating your brain. As I drove home I thanked God for putting these people in my path. It is only two weeks ago that I have met them, but already their kindness has borne fruit. A few days after my first colon cleansing everyone who saw me commented on my healthy appearance.