Method 1. I have found that staring at any part of my body produces a great anti anxiety, calming effect. I stare at a small part of my hand like my knuckle is the easiest way to accomplish this, not the whole knuckle at once, but a specific small spot of skin on the knuckle. At least five people now with panic attacks confirmed that it worked for them, within a couple of minutes Stare continuously, don't avert your attention at all for 2 minutes. I guess it works because over the eons of evolution when we were injured we often looked at the injury a lot, assessing and monitoring it, and after enough eons of doing that, that created a benefit in us , a triggering gene perhaps, from doing so that included an anti anxiety effect.
Method 2. This method is actually more powerful at least in my hands. And my friend was having what amounted to a panic attack. Staring at white noise, perfectly random TV snow or static puts me in what is a dead ringer for the anti-anxiety , calming theta brainwave state so I asked her to try it. In 3 minutes I watched her attack totally disappear and she reported total calm. A couple of days ago another person reported aborting their panic this way. To get the random static, one must have a TV pre 2005, called analogue, It may say that on the back. Digital and internet static is less random and doesn't have the same effect. Take the cable off and turn the set to a non broadcast channel displaying only black dots jumping around on a white background, so called TV snow or static. Most digital TV's don't display TV snow, instead display a blue screen, when turned to a non broadcast channel, TURN THE IRRITATING SOUND DOWN ALL THE WAY, as its disturbing and merely look at the static, the so called snow. The effect is so profound on anxiety and calming that I cant imagine many people not being able to calm themselves in short order.
Other ways of creating so called white noise do not work, they are not random like fans, waterfalls, etc and of course one doesn't look at them like in this method. I have reason to believe that it works because it puts one in the theta brainwave state, a highly valued and strived for healing and relaxing state which is also attained via hypnosis or swimming with dolphins due to their sonars effect on us. There are other methods proposed like binaural beats that put us in theta, they say, but I would bet this TV snow method does it better with greater effect.
I bought one analogue TV at a thrift shop and one at a garage sale and maybe one could find one at a TV repair shop. They cost five to ten dollars only , but maybe you can test a friends if you don't have one.
Steve Lord
Method 2. This method is actually more powerful at least in my hands. And my friend was having what amounted to a panic attack. Staring at white noise, perfectly random TV snow or static puts me in what is a dead ringer for the anti-anxiety , calming theta brainwave state so I asked her to try it. In 3 minutes I watched her attack totally disappear and she reported total calm. A couple of days ago another person reported aborting their panic this way. To get the random static, one must have a TV pre 2005, called analogue, It may say that on the back. Digital and internet static is less random and doesn't have the same effect. Take the cable off and turn the set to a non broadcast channel displaying only black dots jumping around on a white background, so called TV snow or static. Most digital TV's don't display TV snow, instead display a blue screen, when turned to a non broadcast channel, TURN THE IRRITATING SOUND DOWN ALL THE WAY, as its disturbing and merely look at the static, the so called snow. The effect is so profound on anxiety and calming that I cant imagine many people not being able to calm themselves in short order.
Other ways of creating so called white noise do not work, they are not random like fans, waterfalls, etc and of course one doesn't look at them like in this method. I have reason to believe that it works because it puts one in the theta brainwave state, a highly valued and strived for healing and relaxing state which is also attained via hypnosis or swimming with dolphins due to their sonars effect on us. There are other methods proposed like binaural beats that put us in theta, they say, but I would bet this TV snow method does it better with greater effect.
I bought one analogue TV at a thrift shop and one at a garage sale and maybe one could find one at a TV repair shop. They cost five to ten dollars only , but maybe you can test a friends if you don't have one.
Steve Lord
