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TODD KAUFMAN
safe place again and stopped ordering the pumping of cortisol into her thoroughly-exhausted body. We spent a few minutes together learning one of the key techniques that would allow Becky to lower her cortisol at will. It was the same technique that saved our bride earlier.
These are the key things to really know, internalize and understand about anxiety attacks:
Panic attacks are incredibly uncomfortable; panic attacks are not dangerous. They don’t last forever and always come to an end.
Becky went home not long after, escorted by her husband and daughter, with a referral in her hand to the best anxiety therapist in the city I knew.
Do you understand what I meant when I said “know, understand and internalize?” You just read that “Panic attacks are incredibly uncomfortable; panic attacks are not dangerous.” This is the third time I have shared this critical gem of information with you, and I have done so for a reason. It is one thing to know a fact, and it is another to internalize the knowing so deeply that it becomes your truth. When something is a truth, it becomes the first thought your mind creates whenever you think of an anxiety attack.
How we change a fact from just information to a deep “knowing” is exactly the same way we learn a new sport, perfect our golf swing or master a musical instrument: We intentionally rewire our brain. The skill of changing our brain is called neuroplastic change. With every new thing we want to perfect or really know, there are three components to the neuroplastic change process. We are going to investigate neuroplasticity in the next chapter.
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