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Yesterday I talked about the placebo affect and how the placebo often gets better results than the actual medication. This just shows how powerful our minds really are.

You have seen people with the same disease or same circumstances. One will wilt and get worse and worse while the other will be upbeat with a positive attitude. The more upbeat person will be the one with the best chance of overcoming the problem. I think we all know this at some level. But if we know it, how come we don’t practice it. We know we will be better off and may even improve our lot in life but we stay in the depressed, down, woe-is-me syndrome.

What is required is a shift in attitude, but that is often easier said than done.

Years ago I had panic attacks. I did not like them. It limited what I could do. Even going grocery shopping was very difficult for me.  But how do you shift your mind?

I read that wearing a rubber band on your wrist and snapping it when ever you started to feel the anxiety would bring you back to the present. The premise is that the panic occurs because you are trying to live in the future. Well the rubber band helped … for about 3 seconds then the panic would be back. I flicked that rubber band so much I did not feel it any more.

I went to a workshop a couple years ago where they had us all put rubber bands on our wrist and then pull them back and snap them on our wrist. I don’t remember what the reason was for doing this at the workshop, but here we all were with rubber bands. The group I was standing with fidgeted and no one could get up enough nerve to snap their band. So right in front of them I pulled mine back a foot and let go. It made a big snap and every one was impressed. But the years of doing this for my anxiety had toughened me to that rubber band snap.

So how do you make changes to your attitude? How do you get past the fear and the anger? What did I finally do to get over my panic attacks? I used EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). If you want help with your issue go to www.naturallyresilient.com.