The preparatory phase will take you through a few steps that normally precede anxiety attacks. Some of these are preventive measures, while others are meant to equip you to cope with the anxiety attack if it develops to a full-blown form. As mentioned earlier, it is very critical to the success of these steps that you understand you would not get rid of anxiety until and unless you apply yourself fully to the reverse the symptoms and expel negativity from your mind and life.

Would you be surprised if I told you that anxiety is ranked no 1 among all the mental conditions in the USA? This is also a disease that can be very difficult to diagnose because people do not usually go to a medical practitioner to ask a remedy for worrying about the various things that plague them. These are real things, their worry is often not misplaced, though too intense - all of which makes it look rather “normal”. When they do go for a check up it is almost always for symptoms that is a by-product of anxiety such as heart palpitations, diarrhea, insomnia, asthma, diabetes and many such others.

Anxiety attacks are often you are leading a very stressful life. It is as if your body and mind say, “Enough! I cannot take it anymore.” The tension you feel because you are worried whether you would be able to make your deadline, whether you would be able to attend your children’s special days at school, whether your finances would be enough to cover the raising monthly expenses and so on, eventually would result in anxiety attacks. If these stressors are not checked in time and adequate measures are not taken to reverse the symptoms, depression would follow.

Acupuncture is a very old healing system originating from China. Contrary to popular belief this is system is based upon solid scientific premises. It says that the human body has certain nodal points just under the skin, which when stimulated regulate the function of various organs and systems of our body. Accordingly, whenever there is a problem that manifests itself in the form of a disease or disorder, these nodal points are pin pricked to bring back the balance in the body.