From Panic to Power: Proven Techniques to Calm Your Anxieties, Conquer Your Fears, and Put You in Control of Your Life
by Lucinda Bassett
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Author: Lucinda BassettEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-12-19
ISBN: 0060927585
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
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Book Review: The light at the end of the tunnel is NOT a train!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I laughed, I cried-- and I'm only on page 74. This is about me. This is the book I've been needing.
I'm not at the extreme, but I've been suffering from anxiety for a long time. And I know now that I'm NOT physically ill, or mentally, and that there is really no such thing as "normal"--I think "normal" is a word we use to unfairly compare ourselves to an ideal that does not exist.
If you are a sensitive person (which can be a gift as well as a curse) or if you, like me, have had panic attacks and other physical symptoms of anxiety (rapid heartbeat, fluttering heart, chest pains, dizziness, headaches, stomach problems, nausea, hot & cold flashes, insomnia, sleep paralysis, and a great many more) and you've ruled out medical problems, then you need to change the way you think.
Ms. Bassett claims it's just that easy and I'm starting to believe her.
The part that has helped the most so far is her list of personality traits that make people susceptible to anxiety and the shift you need to make in your mind to make things better. For example, the traits on the left can be self-destructive but for each one there's a better way to go:
*Perfectionism to High Standards (There is NO SUCH THING AS PERFECT--but it's okay to have high standards)
*Inner Nervousness to High Vitality (Try thinking of your anxiety as excitement for change and not impending doom)
*Overreative to Healthy Perspective (Sensitive people are fabulous but need to use that trait as a power, not as a disability.)
*Guilt Feelings to Taking Action (Shakespeare once said something to the effect of what is passed and past helping should be past grief--same thing. If you have guilt over something going on now, use that as energy to fix it)
*Criticism sensitivity to personal insight (I may realllllly dislike my boss and may reallllly have chafed at my last performance review, but could there possibly be something in the criticism to honestly make me a better me?)
*Emotional sensitivity to knowing yourself (I hate scary movies and violent ones. I think the universe should not suffer Eminem to exist. All of those things upset me; I need to accept that and just stop trying to watch scary movies and just start ignoring Eminem.)
and 7 others whose descriptions I haven't read through yet b/c I was so deeply affected by the first 6 that I had to share with you.
Okay--enough about me: let me just say that I have a very strong feeling that this book is going to help me. If it can do that, it can help you too.
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Summary of From Panic to Power: Proven Techniques to Calm Your Anxieties, Conquer Your Fears, and Put You in Control of Your Life
From Panic to Power is Lucinda Bassett's inspiring account of the proven techniques she used to overcome anxiety disorder and regain control of her life.
A bestseller with more than 72,000 hardcover copies sold, From Panic to Power offers techniques and skills to the ever?growing number of people who are adversely affected by today's overwhelmingly stressful environment. Lucinda Bassett's effective program, which teaches people how to think differently and respond in a less anxious way, is enabling hundreds of thousands all over the world to transform their draining doubts, fears, and anxieties into positive energy and newfound freedom. Her methods allow sufferers to gain a new understanding of themselves and their challenges when dealing with anxiety and teach effective skills to help transform negative self?talk and destructive worry habits into recently discovered compassion and confidence.
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