I'm sure you know what anxiety is. Let's say fear is your constant companion. Each day certain thoughts and situations cause you to experience it. Let's go one step further and say you become physically nervous. Obviously, you feel rather uncomfortable. Your anxiety keeps you from enjoying the present moment. It's even possible it “blesses” you with the physical symptoms of breathlessness, chest pains, sweating and a racing heart.

Now you may be thinking wait a minute—the above sounds like an anxiety attack. After all, it appears the person who is experiencing fear, anxiety and uncomfortable physical symptoms is having one.

You have a valid point. The chronically anxious person is no doubt praying for relief.

You've got to feel for a person experiencing the terror of a panic attack. Not only do they suffer the symptoms of anxiety to the extreme. Go ahead and add in dizziness, pins and needles, blurry vision and incredible fear and you have a person who feels that death has surrounded him. Can you imagine the constant despair this person lives with?

The sufferer of one of these attacks feels a sense of impending doom. Of course this unfortunate individual is adding terror on top of fear.

He or she also knows that it can blindside them at any time, although there are certain times when they are more susceptible to an attack.

For instance some people experience them when they wake up from their first sleep cycle. Some have them while they are driving. How dangerous is this? In fact, many different situations can induce a panic attack.

As mentioned earlier, the greatest apprehension has to come from the sense of impending doom the sufferer experiences. It's as if the person is at war—on the battlefield of extreme anxiety.

Here's what happens. Their body immediately goes into the survival mode—ready for fight or flight. This is an automatic response to a dangerous situation. Try to visualize how scary this is because flight isn't really an option for these people. To make matters worse, fighting it just increases the already unbearable stress.

Do you see the problem a person experiencing one of these attacks is confronted with? Once it begins, he immediately goes into a heightened state of fear. It's too much to expect the afflicted individual to possess the ability to calm himself down. If you suffer from them, you know what I mean.

Wishing and hoping that the man or woman who unjustly suffers in this manner finds relief won't get the job done.

Maybe you're wondering if there is a solution or a formula to stop panic attacks in their tracks.

Well guess what? Fortunately, a simple technique exists that you or someone close to you can use to reduce unwanted anxiety to zero.