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suggested I try mindfulness techniques. The idea was to focus on being in the present and to sit with the emotion rather than reacting to it. Basically the strategy was to use


thought to conquer thought. It was all very rational, but you can’t hold rational states with major organ deficiencies and yin and yang imbalances. Thought is already unable to control thought or you wouldn’t be panicking. So it was unsuccessful for me. I did board the plane, but struggled with waves of anxiety and panic for the next ten hours. By the time we landed I was sweating, twitching, and looking more like a drug smuggler than when I actually had been one. I was fully expecting to be arrested and executed. I had forgotten the incredible power


Then slowly rise up, inhaling, thinking ‘acceptance’. Keep the focus on the dantian, your power centre, and send your awareness to your legs. Breathe into the muscles in your calves and thighs. Repeat until you feel centred again. This is a simple strategy, but it builds yin, which is a natural antidote to the yang states of panic, anxiety and delusion; so it will quickly create emotional stability. Being highly susceptible to anxiety


and panic is normal after drugs, but if you do your chi practice daily, you will be constantly balancing yin and yang, so these body/ mind imbalances won’t get on top of you. If you drift away from the practice though, they can quickly come back. Many years after I quit drugs, I’d get recurring anxiety attacks. They were always connected


to stressful times in business, and disrespecting yin. During one of these periods, I had to fly on a business trip to Asia. I started getting anxious about the prospect of being in a confined space up in the air with no escape, and I started panicking about it. Panicking about panic was just


getting ridiculous; so I made an appointment with a psychologist. I hadn’t done that before. Once you’ve been on a mission with a goat, you tend to avoid those who examine your sanity as a profession, but the therapist part of me is always interested in other therapeutic approaches, and there was really no need to mention my goat Schroeder (I hadn’t seen him in years); so off I went. They told me there was no biological basis for panic attacks and, as I didn’t want medication, they


of yin. I’d fallen into the yang success trap of thinking I had to do ‘whatever it took’ to achieve my goals. I had temporarily stopped doing tai-chi, thinking it was too ‘slow’. This is the road to failure, not success. Being so yang created imbalances, and anxiety and panic resulted. As soon as I got back into the chi practices my symptoms receded. Anxiety has nothing to do with the


mental processes; so you can’t resolve it with your mind. Metaphysically, anxiety attacks are ‘fire’ out of control. Your internal balance has been so disrupted that the fire that is supposed to be fuelling your destiny is raging in the wrong direction. You correct this through your body. Use your body to create emotional stability


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