Page 7 - Stress,anxiety

find that you are spending far more than 3 – 5 % in

SNS mode. The problem here is that you are

supposed to spend most of your time in PNS mode,

helping your body to run efficiently and only a

small amount of time in SNS. If you spend a lot of

time in SNS mode, you eventually burn the body

out.

Understanding the difference between stress,

anxiety and a panic disorder is simply seeing these

as different degrees of the same underlying

problem. Lets use an example to help you

understand. Assume you have a cabin in the

mountains at which you like to spend your

weekends. If you had heard that there was a bear in

the area that had attacked a person, this might cause

you stress. If you wake up one morning and find

bear feces on your property and fresh claw marks

scraped into the side of the cabin, you may

develop some anxiety. If you are out for a walk

and see a bear running full speed at you, you may

go into panic mode. While this is an outlandish

example, it does help to demonstrate that all three -

stress, anxiety and panic attacks - are the same

phenomenon just to different degrees.