Anxiety sufferers are quick to ask, is there an anxiety cure that will make me stop having anxiety attacks?

The thing is, would you want to be cured completely?

It's easily overlooked when anxiety attacks become such a problem, but anxiety is there for a reason. It makes us alert when we sense danger. It causes our bodies to prepare themselves for any action that might be required to ensure our safety.

Imagine finding the anxiety cure that removes all anxiety from your body. Imagine being perfectly calm under all circumstances. Nothing stirs you. No matter what comes along, you do not react. Your heart doesn't speed up. Your mind doesn't race. Your muscles don't tense.

You just sit there. Unmoved.

Now imagine that the "something" coming your way is a big old grizzly bear. You're so relaxed you really don't much care that it's a threat to your well being. What do you suppose the result will be?

Yes, the bear might stroll right on by and ignore you. It might, but you can't be sure. It likely will want to sniff you and if it smells something interesting, it just might attack you.

You see, an all-out anxiety cure would be a bad thing, even though you might think it would be a tremendous benefit to your everyday life.

What you're really looking for is an anxiety cure that will teach you how not to get anxious when there's really nothing to be anxious about. Those are the times when whatever you are dreading is what you "perceive" is dangerous when in fact it isn't.

Unnecessary anxiety is a reaction that you learned during some experience that caused your anxiety switch to get stuck in the "on" position. In other words, you attached anxiety to that initial experience, and it stuck. Thereafter, you always get anxious when you revisit that experience, even though the initial danger is long gone.

Believe it or not, anxiety is a good thing, otherwise you'd die. Of course, too much of it can create havoc in your life.

So what kind of an anxiety cure would you be looking for?

It would have to teach you how not to become anxious all the time. It would teach you how to respond only to real dangers as you did early in your life, before something caused such a panic that your anxiety button went awry.

The trick, though, is learning how to cure anxiety, even though it travels at the speed of thought. You probably don't even recognize what triggers the anxiety because it happens so quickly.

Now, you don't want to slow down your anxiety responses because that would be as disastrous as not having any anxiety at all. In an emergency, your body needs time to prepare and in order to do so, your brain has worked out the time commitment required. It knows how long it takes for your heart to pump more blood to your muscles, and for the muscles to respond.

Although this process of preparation only takes a matter of split seconds, it's coordinated with absolute precision. You don't want to play with that.

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