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Anthony Goldner shares two fast ways to stop panic: hold a melting ice cube to shock your nervous system back into your body, or bite a lemon for the intense sour taste. Both jolt your attention away from panic and let your body reset.
Anthony Goldner shares two fast ways to stop panic: hold a melting ice cube to shock your nervous system back into your body, or bite a lemon for the intense sour taste. Both jolt your attention away from panic and let your body reset.
And one of the things they said was to, when your, when your body is flooded and you're in the fight or flight state and you're, you're in panic to grab an ice cube, to hold an ice cube in your hand and, and let it melt. And what that does is it helps, it helps bring you back into your body in a forceful way. That's not causing, you know, it's, you're not harming yourself, but you are being brought back into your body because of the coldness. And, and so it helped, it helped me connect my mental state with the state of my body to be able to get back in, to get regulated. And then, and then I also, they, they introduced the idea of biting into a lemon for the same thing of, of that tart flavor that's really uncomfortable and you're kind of squirmish, but to then bite into a lemon.
