Hi Sabrina,

One of the things we get in an anxiety state is what I have called 'whole body pain'. It might be like a person coming off a drug, except that we haven't taken any drug in the first place.

Whilst in this state I once took some strong (prescribed) pain killers and the effect was pretty quick. I felt much better.

The problem with this approach is that you want more, and that would lead to addiction. My best strategy has been to trick my mind onto thinking about something else, to get the focus off the pain.

I believe that the anxiety is centred in the mind, and that's where we need to do the work. This is only my own opinion/experience of course.

One example is in the treatment of tinnitus (noises in the head with a physical cause). I have that pretty bad, and over a period of two years I trained myself to stop listening to it. Now I don't hear it at all, unless I remind myself to do that. If we could just train the mind to stop feeling the anxiety we could put the drug companies out of business!!

Hope it eases for you.

Good thoughts, M