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How To Beat Anxiety, Panic, Phobias and Stress is a small illustrated handbook that shows you how to do three simple things to get control back into your life. The methods and techniques will help you to overcome your anxiety problems, as they have for thousands of other people. The approach is sensible and practical. The adrenaline rush, or fight-or-flight response, was needed for survival in hostile territory thousands of years ago. In today's world it causes the modern problems of Panic, Anxiety, Phobias, Stress and Anger. It seems to be beyond our conscious control. We are told that it can only be moderated by medicines. However, there is good news. We can bring a natural counter-system into operation by changing our breathing, posture and the language we use for speaking and thinking. The author understands the issues having suffered from anxiety, panic and stress many years ago. He did extensive research and found ways to control them. Now he successfully treats others for their anxiety related problems. If you suffer from anxiety related problems, this book is ideal for you. It shows you how to use natural resources that bring about the opposite reaction to panic, anxiety, stress and anger. We can easily promote feelings of relaxation, recovery and control. Read it for the answers that you have been seeking.

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The basic point is that the panic, anxiety, phobic responses and stress are supposed to happen. They have kept humans and all other animals alive since we have existed alongside other creatures that want to kill and eat us.

We are hard-wired to have those responses. Call it instinct, call it behavioural conditioning; call it what you want, it happens. As modern creatures we suffer from our inherited nature.

To beat anxiety, panic and phobias we need to learn how to work with our primeval dispositions and find relief, joy and happiness.

This book shows you how to do just that. Based on many years of helping clients to regain their lives, the author has written this book for sufferers of anxiety related problems rather than for therapists.

The contents are taken from other books written by John Smale that have taught therapists how to deal with their anxious and panicking clients. This book contains methods that have helped many thousands of people to regain control over their lives.