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Panic Symptoms Test – Should You Take The Test?
Nov 15th, 2009 by Dee Marie

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Are you someone who should test for panic symptoms? You might benefit from a test if you are having odd symptoms lately. It could be that you are going to suffer an anxiety attack.

One of the key symptoms to panic disorders is shortness of breath & a heart beating almost out of control. If that sounds like you, take a panic symptoms test now. Chances are you are going to be fine, but best to be sure.

If you are wondering what exactly is an anxiety symptoms test. It’s a series of questions where you simply tick yes or no. Total your score, then read and follow the advice.

You can test yourself at this website * Click this link for an anxiety symptoms test *

You may totally miss some of the lesser symptoms. If a few minor symptoms gang up on you, that’s when panic or anxiety attacks sets in. Although the word “attack” is used, it could mean anything from mild, right up to a full blown panic attack.

If, for instance, you find it hard to concentrate. This could be completely innocent. But it may also point to a disorder that’s creeping up on you.

Do you tend to worry more than others? We all have to worry at some point. But when you worry constantly and too much it could be a sign of anxiety.

The smaller symptoms are pretty harmless on their own. It’s when they all start coming together that the panic and anxiety attacks can start. Breaking this cycle of anxiety attacks is difficult, but not impossible.

You could do worse than taking a few moments to test yourself for panic symptoms. If you have any thoughts that you may be a possible panic attack victim. Or even if you already suffer panic or anxiety attacks, follow the advice after the test and get some help.

You may be pleased to know that you can beat this without having to resort to medication. There are methods to be learnt that allow you to control the attacks, not the other way round.

Click here * panic symptoms test * and put your mind at ease.

Easy Ways To Meditate In Any Situation
Jun 4th, 2009 by Dee Marie

There are easy ways to meditate in literally any situation you find yourself. There are times when you feel your energy all but disappear or find yourself so tense from stress that you can’t think clearly to get through the day. In these situations there are many benefits to meditation. It will ease the tension from your body and clear your mind to think straight. It can even give a physical bolt of energy and clarity.

The two most important aspects of meditation are your breathing and posture. Everything else can be adjusted to the circumstances you find yourself in, but you have to pay attention to these two elements when you meditate.

For starters, get into the most comfortable position possible. If you are at work or in another situation where being alone is not realistic, you can sit in a chair and relax all the muscles of your body so you feel a release of tension. This may take some concentration on certain muscle groups at first.

Your posture must be upright with your head held high. Focus on straightening your spine so you sit up tall, roll your shoulders back and relax so that the air can pass easily through your body. Your eyes should close or focus straight ahead, sort of narrowed in just a little.

For your breathing, follow a pattern that is slow and deliberate. For example, inhale slowly for a count of eight and then hold it there for another count of eight before slowly releasing. Counting will help you control the intake and release of air so that you get the full benefits of your time.

If you can close your eyes or focus them on one spot and concentrate on your breathing then you have the basic elements of simple meditation. If you want to use a relaxing word or sound you can either speak it slowly as you breathe or just use it at the top of your breathe just before holding and releasing.

These easy ways to meditate can be used anywhere! If you keep your words or sounds in your head then others do not even have to know what you are doing.

How To Become A Lucid Dreamer
May 26th, 2009 by Dee Marie

So you want to be a lucid dreamer. Well that’s a good start, at least you know what you want to do; but how exactly do you go about it?

It can be helpful to know why you would like to be a lucid dreamer. What do you have to gain from the process? In order to find the profit in lucid dreaming we should begin with the normal dream process.

When you go to sleep, you get into bed, close your eyes for a certain length of time, and either dream or just see black for a few hours and then wake up! It isn’t very interesting now is it?

Average sleep has a purpose it prepares our minds and bodies to carry out the duties of the next day. However, consider the idea of managing your dreams consciously.

What if rather than being an active observer, you can be the one who can lead your dream to be whatever you want, rather than your dream leading you? This is what a lucid dreamer is; someone who is in total control of their dreams; able to explore new worlds that are not bound to the physical, societal and time-space laws of the real world.

This sounds great, but how can you become a lucid dreamer? There are two ways to reach this state – one is by having a DLID, or dream initiated lucid dream. These are instances where the dreamer has taught themselves to recognize that they are having a dream and start to assert control over the direction of their dream.

The second way is having a wake-initiated lucid dream (WILD); where the dreamer goes from being awake, to being asleep with no change in consciousness. In other words, the dreamer enters their dream as if it were a door, rather than just “waking up” in a dream.

So how are these types of lucid dreaming induced?

Dream Recall

If you’d like to lucid dream, perhaps one of the most successful way of doing so is known as dream recall. Dream recall is simply the ability to remember one’s dreams. By remembering your dreams, you are able to recognize them when you are sleeping, because most likely, you will have the same dream, or at least aspects of it, more than once.

A dream journal is perhaps the best way to learn this skill. Use this to write down every detail of your dream that you can remember immediately after you wake. If you wait., it will become increasingly difficult to recall.

Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (MILD)

This is a technique that was developed by Dr. Stephen LaBerge, one of the lead scientists studying lucid dreaming. The intent here is to simply tell yourself that you will remember something, like an object for example and then in the dream, when you see this object you will realize it is a dream.

Wake-Back-to-Bed (WBTB)

This technique is fairly simple. You set your alarm for just a few hours after you go to bed. When you wake, don’t just go back to sleep. Instead, stay awake for about an hour, then return to sleep.

According to Dr, LaBerge, this method has a 60% success rate. The idea here is to wake yourself in the midst of a REM cycle so that upon returning to sleep, lucid dreaming will be easy to achieve.

Cycle Adjustment Technique

This was created by Daniel Love, and what it is, is setting your alarm to wake you up an hour and a half before your normal time. Once you’ve adjusted to waking up early, alternate your alarm to wake you up normally and early. During times you are to wake up normally, you’re body will already be ready to wake up early, and therefore, you will be likely to be awake in your dream.

Wake-initiation of Lucid Dreams (WILD)

This technique involves maintaining mental alertness even as your body shuts down for sleep. Think of it as if you are in a movies theater, with the film soon to begin; your closed eyelids are like the black screen just before the movie starts.

You can also use this technique with tactics like counting, chanting or imagining yourself climbing stairs as you go to sleep. This method of achieving lucid dreaming is best done in the afternoon or other times when you are not terribly tired.

Technologies like strobe lights and dreaming masks can also help you to become a lucid dreamer.

Listening to binaural beat frequencies through a head set is the simplest and most consistent way to create a lucid dream.

These binaural sounds induce lucid dreaming by causing the hemispheres of your brain to synchronize, making your brainwaves reach the state required for lucid dreaming.

With self affirmations and self hypnosis combined with binaural sound, being a lucid dreamer is a goal which anyone can reach.

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