Coaching practices for Spinning Panic Exercise

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• The instant the room starts to spin or tilt I’m convinced I’m about to faint or collapse
• The lightheaded, tingly, floaty, this-isn’t-real feeling is the one that scares me most
• My thoughts are racing off into the worst-case and I can’t catch them
• I try to white-knuckle through it by distracting myself or looking away from what my body’s doing, but the dread of the racing heart never actually gets disproven that way
• The moment I notice a flutter or a tingle, my mind instantly slaps a catastrophe on it

Practices that may help

1. Spinning-in-chair induction
   Spin in a chair for 30 seconds to produce dizziness, then stay with the sensation.
   Interoceptive Exposure for Panic
2. Hyperventilation induction exercise
   Breathe rapidly through the mouth for 60 seconds to produce dizziness and breathlessness — then stay with it.
   Interoceptive Exposure for Panic
3. The 5-4-3-2-1 senses exercise
   Name 5 things you see, 4 you hear, 3 you feel, 2 you smell, 1 you taste, to anchor in the present.
   Grounding Techniques for Acute Distress
4. Use somatic tracking instead of distraction
   Observe sensations with neutral curiosity rather than distracting from them — the curiosity interrupts the threat appraisal.
   Panic Surfing
5. Post-induction body scan to observe without catastrophizing
   After inducing sensations, scan the body with curiosity rather than alarm.
   Interoceptive Exposure for Panic
6. Generalize exposure to naturalistic triggers
   Seek out real-world situations that naturally produce the sensations you have been practicing with.
   Interoceptive Exposure for Panic
7. Run the full 5-4-3-2-1 sequence
   Work through all five senses in order: 5 things seen, 4 heard, 3 touched, 2 smelled, 1 tasted.
   The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique
8. Interoceptive exposure: deliberately induce the feared sensations
   Reproduce the physical sensations of panic in a safe, controlled way to break the sensation-fear link.
   The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical
9. Identify and reduce safety behaviors
   Notice the things you do to prevent catastrophe during panic — and experiment with dropping them.
   The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical
10. Panic Surfing
    Panic surfing is the practice of allowing panic to peak and pass without fighting it, fleeing the situation, or using safety behaviors — based on the understanding that panic attacks are physiologically self-limiting and cannot escalate indefinitely. The approach is drawn from panic treatment research and from acceptance-based models; it is one of the most effective behavioral components of modern panic disorder treatment.

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