You can gain control of your symptoms and relax more quickly if you know how to use positive affirmations during an anxiety attack.
Having an open mind is necessary to repeat and believe in the statements below.
Affirmations tend to most help people who have strong faith in something.
If you are able to have faith in a higher power or concepts like love, truth, and justice, then you are more likely to be able to "talk yourself out of anxiety.
" These statements aren't necessarily based on logic.
They require you to have an open mind and imagine the opposite of what your body's symptoms are saying.
How to Prepare to Use Positive Affirmations During an anxiety attack, begin to step back and look at yourself in the experience.
Know that you are not your anxiety, but you are someone experiencing it.
You may even be able to go a step further and imagine yourself as a friend having an attack, rather than your own self.
That unique perspective is going to give you a new way to see yourself and your anxiousness.
When you can take a moment to achieve it, even in the midst of strong fear, you are ready to repeat these affirmations to yourself.
One or all of these may suit you.
Read through each one, and discover which could be most helpful to you during an attack.
3 Key Affirmations to Use 1.
"I am safe.
" Believing in your safety and security is important to ending the panic.
Attacks come from a sense of danger, even if you don't consciously see a threat before you.
Tell yourself gently, as you would a friend, that you are safe.
If you are spiritual or religious, imagine an angel or higher power watching over you.
This will help you feel like you are protected and never alone.
It will also help you to know that unless you are in honest physical danger, your body is most likely overreacting to the situation for a number of reasons.
These could be due to your past trauma or experience with anxiety.
Staying with it and seeing it through to the end will make you less sensitive to the triggers the next time you are presented with them.
2.
"I am in control of myself.
" Many times anxiety comes from feeling like you have no control of something.
It could be external, like money problems, relationship conflicts, or work responsibilities.
Sometimes it's internal, such as your health.
Depending on what the source is, you may or may not have direct control over its outcome.
The important thing to know is that you are in control of yourself.
Fear over your sense of control does not have to rule your body.
After all, the only thing you can control is you, and no one else.
3.
"My breath will relax me.
" One of the best things to know during an anxiety attack is that a deep breath is going to automatically begin to calm your body down.
Whether or not the nervousness is also in your busy mind, your body shows symptoms like trembling, sweating, heart palpitations, and nausea.
If you can shift your attention away from your stress to the act of breathing deeply, you are almost guaranteed to calm yourself down.
Repeating the affirmation above will help you keep your focus on that rather than the attack.
Don't Forget to Combine Methods While following affirmations are likely to help you calm your nerves, it's also key to practice deep breathing in conjunction with this method.
Be sure to learn the proper technique, as well as the other elements of relieving anxiety, in order to see the best results.