Re: Stress has Triggered SEVERE Anxiety/Panic Attacks. PLEASE HELP, PLEASE!

Hi, Piuma, the techniques that I have employed and suggested to others do not require any external devices or any expense.  These are all techniques that we have the power to use within ourselves. 

Perhaps, a guided meditation might not be appropriate for you, at this point.  Relying upon any device or application for a device takes away your own ability to control the direction of your personal healing.  Have you developed any positive affirmations for yourself, by any chance?  My "go-to" affirmation has been, "I'm okay, and okay is good enough."  I developed this into my personal mantra and would use it to control my breathing, as well as provide the rhythm for the EFT-tapping technique. 

The problem that I have seen arise over, and over, again is that someone (or, some company) will descend onto these forums and insist and guarantee that THEIR method, product, or protocol is "the only" method of "curing" any given disorder or disease.  That is simply not true because each person might share the same components as an organism, but we are each different in our emotional, physical, and spiritual makeup.  Our personal experiences have helped to shape us into who we are, today.  Plain and simple.  The only thing that we really "know" about emotional well-being is that fear and trauma create specific reactions within human behavior and perceptions.  How each person got to the point where anxiety has become a problem is as different as oranges are from granite countertops.  

So, consider developing your own personal affirmation - a phrase that contains ONLY positive words.  "I will not," "I don't," I can't," etc is not "positive."  Then, using that phrase, it can actually help to control breathing as a matter of course.  In  your situation, you feel as if you are suffocating, so it might be a good option to develop an affirmation that tells you that you are not going to suffocate by controlling your breathing.  Something like, "I breathe and exhale and I am safe."  I don't know..........you'll know what words are more helpful to you than I will.

At any rate, we can absolutely manage our own anxieties.  I am walking, talking, living proof that it can be done without purchasing devices, applications, supplements, or following someone else's protocol.  I have what I need (emotionally), already, and learning how to tap into that is simply an ongoing process.  NOTHING works, immediately, or will "cure" whatever causes anxiety.  But, it can be managed in due time with due practice.

Best wishes to you.