Coaching practices for Why Panic Sensations Are Harmless
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Now I’m scared of the feelings themselves
- The moment I notice a flutter or a tingle, my mind instantly slaps a catastrophe on it
- 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 lightheaded, tingly, floaty, this-isn’t-real feeling is the one that scares me most
- Part of why the racing heart and the dizziness terrify me is that I genuinely don’t know they can’t hurt me
Practices that may help
- 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 - Post-induction body scan to observe without catastrophizing
After inducing sensations, scan the body with curiosity rather than alarm.
Interoceptive Exposure for Panic - Use somatic tracking instead of distraction
Observe sensations with neutral curiosity rather than distracting from them — the curiosity interrupts the threat appraisal.
Panic Surfing - Hyperventilation induction exercise
Breathe rapidly through the mouth for 60 seconds to produce dizziness and breathlessness — then stay with it.
Interoceptive Exposure for Panic - Learn the physiology of anxiety: why sensations are harmless
Understand why racing hearts, dizziness, and shortness of breath cannot cause the catastrophe you fear.
The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical - Generalize exposure to naturalistic triggers
Seek out real-world situations that naturally produce the sensations you have been practicing with.
Interoceptive Exposure for Panic - Identify the catastrophic misinterpretation
Name exactly which bodily sensation you are having and exactly what you fear it means.
The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical - Allow the sensations instead of fighting them
Do not try to stop the racing heart, the dizziness, the breathlessness — allow them and observe.
Panic Surfing - Interoceptive awareness
Practice noticing and naming body sensations neutrally, so they stop reading as alarms.
The Anxiety Toolkit, Made Practical - Generate alternative, benign explanations for the sensation
List all other things that could plausibly cause the sensation you're experiencing.
The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Allow Panic Feelings
Reproduce the physical sensations of panic in a safe, controlled way to break the sensation-fear link.
Interoceptive exposure: deliberately induce the feared sensations
- Allow Panic Sensations
Reproduce the physical sensations of panic in a safe, controlled way to break the sensation-fear link.
- Bodily Sensation Panic
Name exactly which bodily sensation you are having and exactly what you fear it means.
Identify the catastrophic misinterpretation
- Body Awareness Panic Attack
After inducing sensations, scan the body with curiosity rather than alarm.
Post-induction body scan to observe without catastrophizing
- Exercise Induced Panic
Breathe rapidly through the mouth for 60 seconds to produce dizziness and breathlessness — then stay with it.
Hyperventilation induction exercise
- Fear Of Panic Sensations
Reproduce the physical sensations of panic in a safe, controlled way to break the sensation-fear link.
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