The Panic Away Review

Worried about finances, anxiety over job security, worried about family, fearful of personal security, feeling inadequate – such are the things that occupy the normal mind. Sadly, psychology confirms time and time again that the normal mind is actually obsessed with negative thought. This negativity is entrenched in the subconscious – that part of your mind that was conditioned by this way of thinking during our formative years – and is nurtured by the prevalence of bad news, negative coverage and the horror stories on which the media thrives. We are surrounded – from inside and outside – by negativity.

For many, that negativity leads to anxiety – we become anxious about everything that we don’t want to befall us. Anxiety often leads to fear – again, we fear the things that we don’t want to happen. And, for some, that anxiety can lead to downright panic – and that panic often overwhelms us without any prior warning.

The first thing that you have to understand is that, if you’re feeling anxious, panicked or fearful, it has nothing to do with you – it is the product of an over-active personality. Your personality – who you think you are – is a fiction based on all the psychological pictures that you ‘snapped’ during your formative years. You took snapshots of events that impressed you at that time but, now, your subconscious mind is using those photographs to create what you think of as your reality. And, because your subconscious automatically invests your energy into these negative emotions, you generally end up proving yourself correct – you were right to worry, right to be anxious, right to be fearful – your life becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Psychology tells us that we are only able to perceive and experience what we our personality expects to perceive and experience. In other words, if we change our expectations, our life will actually change. However, this is easier said than done because, as I have already said, not only is your subconscious mind occupied by the long-term squatters of negative thought, we are surrounded by so-called normal people who are stuck in the same nightmare. It is difficult to believe that life could be completely different.

What you have to do is start re-building your naturaly ability to ignore useless, self-sabotaging and negative thought by redirecting your attention to what is real. Reality is only to be found in this present moment. To be blunt, this moment might just be your last – you had better get busy experiencing, living and capitalizing upon the wonder of the here and now. The now is a place where anxiety, fear and panic are simply not. It is a place where you take real action – action that can point your life in the perfect direction. It is a place where you meet life’s challenges head on – without anxiety or fear.

However, try explaining this to someone who is in the depths of despair. Try telling this to someone who has given up on succeeding. Try telling someone who is in the throes of panic that it’s not real. You’ve got to develop your ability to appreciate, experience and live in the present moment when it doesn’t matter so that you can be fully focused, fully alert, fully armed, when it does matter. So, straight away, take a few minutes to simply sit down and pay attention to what your five senses are telling you – not what your fictional personality thinks that they are telling you. Get that imposter out of the way – out of your life – and see where life might take you.