If you suffer from COPD, you are familiar with the cold panic that begins creeping up on you when chill damp weather sets in. The days get colder and gray, and cold and flu season begins. You’re at risk for pneumonia or even just a cold. The coughing starts and your airways tighten. Drawing a deep breath becomes harder.
Soon you start wondering if you will begin to start struggling to breathe. Your breathing rate increases, and gets less shallow. As you become more anxious, and your airways get tighter, your heart races, and your mind begins working faster, causing you to wonder how you will ever escape from this vicious cycle of anxiety and shortness of breath. Will you ever be able to find relief?
Many people don’t realize that coping with anxiety is one of the most important aspects in managing COPD successfully. They understand the importance of treating infections and taking medicines to keep the airways relaxed and open, but they fail to understand that breathing control can help lessen the severity of an attack, or even resolve it much more quickly. Other people realize that controlling breathing is important, but don’t realize that this is possible without taking additional drugs to help relieve anxiety.
Relieving anxiety is a very important part of managing breathing during a worsening attack (sometimes called an exacerbation) of COPD. Doctors and respiratory professionals teach special breathing exercises to help people control their breathing, but when anxiety hits, using these techniques is very difficult, and sometimes even impossible. Furthermore, in the hour or more that it takes anti-anxiety medicines to work, breathing can become a matter of life – or death.
If your life depends on controlling your breathing, why trust medications that may or may not be immediately available and effective when you start to have a breathing attack? Wouldn’t you rather learn to control and manage the anxiety yourself so that you know you will be able to stay in control and manage your breathing at those crucial minutes?
Ericksonian Hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming therapies allow you to do exactly this. Specially designed CD sessions allow you to focus on learning to relax and stay in control. In the privacy and comfort of your own home, you learn to banish anxiety through methods such as the Flash technique, and relax rather than become more anxious when these breathing attacks strike. Don’t place your health and safety in someone else’s hands – take control today!