Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your anxiety. about the chaotic nature of anxiety attacks and how you can protect yourself from getting

swept away by the awful thoughts and physical symptoms that anxiety can suddenly manifest.

Anyone who suffered an anxiety attack knows that one of the most disturbing things is its very definite physical presence. You might be feeling fine one minute and then feel completely overwhelmed by a suddenly racing pulse or pounding heart the next.

Some anxiety suffer has become dizzy and feel like they might faint.

Some have trouble catching their breath or feel they might choke,

and some fear that they might lose control completely or even die.

Anxiety causes such chaos in the body that your mind develops a strong reaction to the event

and will do all it can to protect you from it happening again.

Unfortunately, the way the mind does this is by creating fear of the fear.

Fear is okay if it manifests as weariness on the edge of a cliff or caution when using hot ovens,

but it becomes a big problem when it

it develops in response to an internal event, which is exactly

what an anxiety attack is.

Your mind will prompt you to avoid any place or situation where you've experienced anxiety.

This avoidance is your mind's way of trying to protect you.

It's the once bitten twice shy nature of the mind to start eliminating any place or situation

that's caused you suffering in the past. It's the same thing as a phobic response.

If something scares you intensely once your mind will try and protect you by keeping you

wary of that thing to keep you safe from harm.

The trouble with anxiety and phobias is their all pervasive nature. The mind becomes so scared that you're going to have that horrible experience again that it starts making anxious predictions and it doesn't just contain it to the one area where it happened

before. It starts thinking what happens if I have an anxiety attack here? What happens if I pass

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