Quick Run for Cover it’s a PANIC ATTACK!!

Imagine, you’re on your own in a dark ally way and you find yourself confronted by an attacker, you’re being attacked!! Quick! What do you do? What is your response to being attacked? …..Counter attack! A counter attack doesn’t have to be a full blown Bruce Lee all out ninja kun chuck flying street fight, it can be as simple as firm resistance or in deed speedy retreat, either way you have countered or responded to the attack. Counter attack is exactly the right response when you are genuinely under attack from a force that intends to hurt you. However what if you weren’t under attack – what if your attacker didn’t want to hurt you, what if the attacker simply wanted to pass peacefully by? Would they still be an attacker? Would attacker be the correct label for them? Of course not, they aren’t going to hurt you, in fact they have no intention of it, they are just on their journey too.

Where is this going I hear you ask, well the truth of the matter is in the name, Panic Attack! The person who first coined the phrase ‘Panic Attack’ has done the rest of the world a real injustice never mind the injustice done to the innocent ‘feelings’ that got tarnished and blackened with the label ‘Panic Attack’. Now you’ve lost it I hear you say! Maybe not, just wait one minute. The term ‘Panic attack’ describes in two words a terrible situation that no one would ever want to be in – you are being ATTACKED by PANIC – oh no run for cover, the evil merciless dark lord PANIC is coming to ATTACK you!!! A shivery prospect – well done Mr first person who coined the phrase, you succeeded in making people afraid of themselves – the one person we should be 100% certain of.

There has been a terrible miscarriage of justice and its time the world found out the truth, an innocent set of sensations and feelings have been behind bars for too long, its time to set them free from the perils of injustice and reintroduce them as the innocent and peaceful feelings that they are, rather than the evil attackers that they have been previously portrayed to be.

Deed Poll have been contacted, the new official name for Panic Attack is ‘Emotional Release’. Emotional release is your friend! Your true unconditional friend, do you fear your friends? No of course not, but you may fear them if you thought they were going to attack you! So here in lies the problem, fear breeds fear. FEAR of FEAR is the ultimate FEAR because it is self propelling, the cycle cannot be broken. The more you run, the more you resist, the more you counter the attack, the stronger it becomes – fear wants you to resist, fear wants you to be afraid, fear wants you to run away and hide and PANIC. Fear, attack, panic, heart attack, more panic, oh no, even more panic, I’m going to die, supercharged panic!!!

So the term Panic Attack has started you off on completely the wrong footing with your feelings, the relationship has turned sour because you don’t trust them because someone told you they were bad – they will attack you, those evil panic feelings. You have been taught to fear them; you have learned to fear yourself. Surely you couldn’t fear yourself, no of course not you fear fear, and sure fear is some outer body sensation that comes from the ground!!?* No its not! it is YOU, you are the fear, you are your own fear, you fear your own self your own feelings! But why? Why do you fear your feelings why do you resist feeling your feelings, they only want to make you feel them once and then they’ll pass on by – you can’t get stuck in a feeling. We all know there are times in our lives when we feel really intense sensations and feelings of joy and happiness but we don’t stay with those feelings – we relish them, we embrace them and we live with them, live through them with no resistance we allow them free passage within our body and soul and it’s wonderful.

The fear of feeling is holding you back from the truth of life, fear of fear is fuelling a mental illness epidemic. Inner relationship peace making is required for those who have a fear of their own feelings, an attacker is no longer an attacker when we realise their true motive is nothing other than innocent and peaceful. We all need a new approach to accepting our own feelings, we should no longer fear them but rather welcome them – hug them in our minds eye, let them be what ever they are, let them pass on by without having a massive fight with them for just doing their job. Resisting them will only make them stronger and troublesome; they will cause a whole manner of problems if you don’t let them finish their perfectly natural journey.

What we have to accept as human beings is that we have ups and downs that carry emotional markers some of which are joyful and some of which are sorrowful but they both must be felt to remain balanced and grounded. Once we start accepting the good but resisting the bad we upset a natural equilibrium within. An Emotional Release (formally known as Panic Attack), is exactly what the new term describes, it’s a release of emotion, it’s the bodies own way of rebalancing the emotional system because of previous resistance causing an imbalance. Fear of this natural and liberating experience has an opposing effect so furthering the resistance and imbalance, so the next time you feel an Emotional Release coming – embrace it, see it for the good that it is, and enjoy the liberation and inner balanced peace that it brings. For a lot of you the very thought of having an emotional release / panic attack is enough to send you into one, that’s actually because the fear of having an emotional release / panic attack is enough to tip the scales of balance so far to one side that the body has to perform an emotional release to try and bring balance back, though when the body encounters massive resistance to this, a standoff begins and all hell breaks loose.

You trust your body to make you better when you have a physical illness – you just let it happen – why do you think your body doesn’t know how to cure spiritual uneasiness? Let go just let go and enjoy the re-awaking, good luck and god bless