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	7 Steps You Can Take to Avoid Panicking It Doesn't Help, You Know Part 1 by Susan Dunn Momentum Coaching
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7 Steps You Can Take to Avoid Panicking
It Doesn't Help, You Know
Part 1
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Something's making you anxious. In today's world it could be any number of things, and sometimes several in combination. Maybe it's a big assignment at work with a pressure deadline you're not sure you can do it all and you feel your job depends upon it.

Or you suspect your husband's having an affair and you need to make the confrontation. Or your adult child has just been diagnosed with cancer and chemotherapy starts next week and so does your new job. Or you've been out of work for 6 months and the bills are piling up.

Whatever it is, you feel overwhelmed and find yourself getting panicky sometimes. You're going along okay and then it starts -- your heart's pounding, your pulse is racing, your eyes well up with tears, and you want to run or hide.

The trouble is that in this state you can't think, and clear thinking is what you need. You need resources, a strategy with action steps, and calm resolution to take the first one. How do you get there from here?

STEP ONE: Self-soothe.

All forms of panicking involve losing your breath, and you need your breath for inspiration; the root of that word means "breath in" incidentally. Your thinking brain needs oxygen in order to function, and you need deep breathing to accomplish this.

Breathe deeply. The knot in your stomach will relax. We experience our emotions through our bodies, i.e., shortness of breath, a knot in the stomach, sweating palms signal us that we're anxious. Deep breathing is incompatible with the physiological effect of negative emotions.

STEP TWO: Clear your head and add positive self-talk and prayer.

Your head is spinning and the worst-case scenario-fantasy is escalating out-of-control. Breathe deeply. Replace "I can't take this," and "I'll end up on the streets" with "I'm competent and can handle this," and "I've been through tough times before and everything turned out fine."

If you can't get there, replace it with something neutral, the verbal equivalent of counting sheep. Run through the alphabet. Silently recite nursery rhymes. Do math equations.

Pray. Here is a method for praying if you need one: Golden Key. You can submit a confidential prayer request to Unity.

STEP THREE: Think Optimistically.

This is functional optimism - or 'learned' optimism, as Martin Seligman, Ph.D., the father of positive psychology calls it. It has to do with how you look at what's happened. Thinking it's personal ("It's all my fault"), pervasive ("I screw up everything"), and permanent ("I always have and I always will"), will make it worse.

The essence of Optimism is avoiding the downward spiral, so distract yourself. Keep your social life going. Rent a funny video (laughter helps the immune system and helps us think more creatively). Stay busy. Don't ruminate.

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Susan Dunn, MA, Clinical Psychology, The EQ CoachT, Susan Dunn. Susan is the author of "How to Live Your Life with Emotional Intelligence."

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