Overcoming Anxiety Attack Symptoms

How Anxiety Attacks Can Be Triggered By The Connection between Mind, Body and Spirit

We are complicated creatures. Mind, body and spirit are all interconnected, and can influence each other in ways that we often fail to understand.

Very often when a person is told that they have an Anxiety disorder they find it hard to believe. Their symptoms of anxiety feel so physical, so they are sure there must be something physically wrong. All their tests are negative, but somehow they can’t believe it. Surely this racing heart, these shaking legs, this churning stomach, can’t all be down to my mind playing tricks?

On the other hand, a person tormented by obsessive thoughts can find it hard to believe that there is any physical element to their suffering. How can doing more exercise or improving sleep patterns have an effect on my thoughts?

If you have either of those reactions to your diagnosis, just stop and think for a moment. Think back to the time before you had Anxiety.

• When you were happy, did you smile or laugh?
• When you were upset, did you cry?
• When you were worried, did you feel like there was a weight in your chest?
• When you were nervous, did you get butterflies in your stomach?

You are aware of your emotions in your mind, and yet your body feels them too, and expresses them. If you know someone well, you can tell just from their body language what mood they’re in.

Or look at it another way:

• Why does jaunty music make us want to tap our toes?
• Why do we sit on the edge of our seat -watching an exciting movie?
• Why does that person chew their lip when they’re thinking?

Whenever your mind is active, your body seems to want to express what’s going on. This means that it’s perfectly possible for mental distress to cause physical symptoms and for physical care to soothe mental anguish.