Bach flower therapy for panic attacks is becoming increasingly popular, due to the profound action that flower remedies are able to perform, up to the real cause of the disorder. In fact, the manifestation of panic attacks is the signal that our mind develops to make us aware of a psychological and emotional problem, which unconsciously afflicts us.
Bach flower therapy for panic attacks interprets the disorder as an organism's response to something deeper and involves an investigation by the flower-therapist into the patient's emotional life .
The study of the remedies and the sensitivity (sometimes sensitivity) of the flower-therapist who relates to the patient, will guide him in choosing the most appropriate flower, which varies for each individual patient, since each will present fears, stories, different experiences.
It is obvious that the incidence of genetic factors and / or neurochemical alterations in any type of human disorder cannot be ruled out. However, we must also consider that if the brain begins to produce certain neurotransmitters, or inhibit others, it does so in response to what he regards as a threat .
Finding out what factors the person lives as a danger, we will act on the actual cause that leads to the panic attack. From here we can see the value of the interview, a fundamental tool of every diagnostic process.
How do flower therapy and Bach flowers help treat diseases of the soul?
Bach flowers and panic attacks
For operators who use Bach flowers panic attacks fall into a form of fear and are distinguished from other forms of anxiety by virtue of their intensity and their sudden and episodic nature ; although their incidence is statistically greater in people suffering from anxiety disorders, agoraphobia, claustrophobia, external pressures, and other psychological conditions, which lead the person to fear dying, "going crazy" or losing control of emotions and actions .
The experience generally causes a strong need to avoid or escape from the place where the panic attack begins and, when it is associated with chest pains, rapid heartbeat or wheezing, a sense of imminent death, one tends to seek help at the ready hospital assistance or other types of immediate assistance.
Rescue Remedy
Rescue Remedy is the corresponding remedy in immediate first aid flower therapy; is a mixture of 5 Bach flowers that work in synergy with an instant calming effect . However the Rescue Remedy is a symptomatic remedy, in the sense that it solves the problem in the instant in which it manifests itself, but does not go to cure the specific psychological problem that causes it.
Rock Rose
Rock Rose is the elective remedy for paralyzing panic attacks : due to external and internal tremor, sweating, tachycardia and blocking of the ability to react in an emergency situation. It is for those who let themselves be carried away by their emotions, when fear turns into extreme panic and they get stuck, with shortness of breath and heart in their throats, unable to react.
The remedy helps to regain control, calm, courage, determination, allowing you to react quickly, with cold blood and the ability to keep the shock and fear in hand.
Aspen
Aspen is the remedy of indefinite, ancestral fears : for those who are always restless and apprehensive; he fears vague dangers, the unknown, the dark and experiences terror without explanation, of unknown and unjustified origin. He thus finds himself living in the expectation of an imminent catastrophe, of a looming ruin, under a sense of constant threat, of deadly and unjustified omens.
For those who are pervaded by thoughts of death, religious fixations and feel the torments of the planet on their skin, war, hunger, violence, disease and are prey to anxiety, premonitions, nightmares, tremors. The flower helps to keep obsessive thoughts at bay and to stop the continuous work of the mind, favoring relaxation. Despite the extreme sensitivity that allows him to understand profound information about the surrounding world, the individual in treatment will look with courage towards the unknown, the shadows of the imagination will dissolve, and anguish and fear will be overcome.
Mimulus
Mimulus is the remedy of fear for known things : it serves those who are not well integrated into the world in which they live, they fear what they have experienced, a tangible, concrete, precise fear (insects, aircraft, elevator, diseases, operations, claustrophobia, agoraphobia etc. .). He fears all the excesses and is annoyed: noises, cold, light, screams, confusion. Under stress it is agitated, can sweat, stutter, blush and even raise the volume of the voice. He feels in awe, as if everyone were better than him. It lacks courage and returns. The flower helps to face the fears of everyday life. Anxiety turns into calm, serenity, balance, it takes away the horrid veils with which the fantasy had covered them.
Cherry Plum
Cherry Plum is the remedy for the fear of losing control of one's actions : the individual is terrified of the idea of going crazy, of committing suicide, of dying, of performing extreme and unconscious gestures, even self-defeating, giving vent to dangerous impulses. He can't stop the terrible thoughts that crowd his head in a real mental overwork.
He has the impulse to perform violent acts of which he feels horror and ruminates crazy and contradictory thoughts towards himself and towards others. The flower helps to accept the negative sides of our character and to overcome the fear that they take over.
It also helps us to recognize the richness of our inner world by releasing the positive energies we all have. It favors the recovery of balance and good relationship with one's own unconscious; relaxation, self-control; makes it available for constructive dialogue; brings back the psychic balance, relaxation and peace.
