Panic Attack Help - What Your Body Is Doing and How to Stop It
Calming Anxiety | Guided Meditation, Sleep Hypnosis & Panic Attack Relief
Calming Anxiety
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
You are not in danger—you are experiencing a temporary shift in chemistry, and chemistry is something we can absolutely work with. In today’s episode of Calming Anxiety, we dive into a powerful, physiologically proven breathing technique designed to physically press the pause button on your panic response. By adding a simple "micro-sip" of air to the top of your inhalation, you will learn how to deeply activate your vagus nerve and signal to your entire nervous system that you are completely safe.
No mindset tricks here—just pure biology utilized to bring your body back to a steady, peaceful rhythm. Support the Show & Join Our Community🚀 Help Us Launch the Anchored App!We are working hard to bring the brand-new Anchored app directly to the Apple ecosystem to help even more people navigate anxiety. Because Martin has never owned an Apple product, a wonderful friend has set up a GoFundMe campaign to help him secure an old MacBook to code on. We are so incredibly close to reaching this goal!
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- 00:00 – Introduction: Chemistry vs. Danger
- 01:12 – Community Update: The Anchored App GoFundMe
- 01:55 – Guided Breathing: The Vagal Brake Technique
- 04:29 – Safe Space Visualization & Letting the Wave Pass
- 06:40 – Mindful Affirmations for Grounding
- 08:49 – 3 Daily Caring Tips for Anxiety Interruption
- 10:49 – Final Thoughts & How to Share the Calm
- "I am safe in this moment."
- "The feeling is temporary, it always passes."
- "My body is doing its job, I trust the process."
- "I am not in danger, I am in chemistry and chemistry is changing."
- "I breathe in calm, I breathe out fear."
- "I am stronger than this feeling."
- "I choose calm, right now in this breath, I choose calm."
- Name it to Tame it: When a spiral begins, say out loud or in your mind: "This is a panic response, it is not danger, it is chemistry." This single act activates your rational brain and interrupts the alarm pattern.
- The Cold Water Reset: If you can, run cold water over your wrists or splash your face. This triggers the ancient mammalian dive reflex, physically dropping your heart rate in seconds.
- One Thing at a Time: Pull your mind out of the future by engaging your five senses. Find 5 things you can see, 4 you can touch, 3 you can hear, 2 you can smell, and 1 you can taste.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're in the middle of a panic attack right now, or you're carrying the dread of the next one, |
| 0:07.1 | I want you to stay with me. |
| 0:09.7 | I know what your body is doing right now, and more importantly, I know how to help it stop. |
| 0:18.0 | You are not in danger. |
| 0:19.9 | You are in chemistry, and chemistry we can work with. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to calming anxiety. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm Martin, a clinical hypnotherapist and former frontline paramedic. |
| 0:36.7 | Every single day I'm here, free for 10 minutes to help you understand what anxiety is doing |
| 0:44.3 | inside your body and to guide it back to calm. |
| 0:49.3 | If you're searching for panic attack help today. You've found the right place. |
| 0:56.5 | There are over 2,300 episodes waiting for you in this library and every single one is free. |
| 1:04.3 | So if this one helps, please do go and subscribe because I'll be back here again tomorrow. Before we settle in today, just thank you. |
| 1:15.6 | Many of you know that I'm running a GoFundMe campaign |
| 1:19.6 | to bring the calming anxiety app anchored to market, |
| 1:23.6 | mainly to the Apple ecosystem. |
| 1:26.6 | A friend set it up because I've never owned any Apple products before. |
| 1:31.3 | So it's purely to buy an old MacBook so I can code on it. |
| 1:36.3 | It's going well, but just a little bit more, and I'll be there. |
| 1:40.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:42.3 | If you do donate, please send me the receipt to Hello at |
| 1:47.4 | calminganxiety.org and claim your free premium lifetime membership. Thanks. Now find your quiet |
| 1:58.0 | place today. Somewhere truly comfy where you won't be disturbed, you can sit or lie down. |
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