I keep having panic attacks and anxiety that everything i know may not be real.............?

Question

are there any of you that can prove philisophicaly that reality IS real? its a very disurbing that that nothing truly exists and everyone i know and love and everything i have ever known is just part of a reality that i either created in my head or is artificial and somehow not real. the only thing i know for sure is that i exist because of the "i think therfore i am". can you help??

Answer 1

Soccor mom, what people call illusion and reality is but a mental outlook. Like cinderella becoming a princess. like the pauper who discovered he was a prince. All things are but God expressing his vision of himself. "God dwells within you as you". WE can see the world as the world or we can see the world as God. the difference is in our awareness. nothing changes except our awareness, You have been shown this from creation so it is vaguely familar. See romans 1-19/21. Read "the Impersonal Life" by Joseph Brenner. No you are not going crazy. Relax and see what God reveals to you, Just watch your mind as you would watch clouds pass across the sky.

Answer 2

Relax. You are stressing yourself out unncessarily! Look at concrete things around you. Look at the ceiling. Look at the floor. Find something in the room that's white. Take a deep breath. Feel comforted by concrete reality. Be in present time. Your panic is what is not real. There is nothing to fear but fear itself. Fear is pretty scary! Stop torturing yourself thinking too much! Just keep taking deep breaths. Calm yourself down. Maybe exercise a little to exhaust yourself then have a nap. Everything exists. Philosophy shouldn't cause you so much torment. It is possible to overanalyze too much. Try just living in the tangible world for a bit & give your mind a bit of a break. Enjoy what you can experience with your senses. This is real. Anything you see, hear, smell, touch, taste. Savour it. Focus on your breathing. This is real. Relax. You are ok. Get some rest. You may be sleep deprived. If you don't get enough sleep then your mind starts playing tricks on you. I get the sense that someone who thinks & worries like you may have insomnia. If you keep feeling this way, speak to someone. Talk to your doctor. Don't stress...find your zen...

Answer 3

The reason why you are having this panick attacks is as you clearly feel that everything is real. If it would not be real and you would not be conscious, you would not feel panick.
Life is real, you have a purpose, things and you truly exist. Your friends and family are real and not only created in your head. In your head you create thoughts and even they are real and have an effect, how science can even prove today. But there is something in you, which lives on beyond what you see, feel and hear with your body organs and this is the part which talks to you now. This is the most real aspect of our humanity, but most people ignore just that, so do not listen to the majority as they are just confused.
What is there besides your thoughts, your talking, your body? Yes you feel right, there is still more. Do you feel the heaviness when you are sad? This reality is as much real as if you carry a heavy bag. Do you feel the lightness in your heart when you see a loved one? THis is as much real as a butterfly joyfully flying in the air . The real world expands beyond our physical senses. Did you ever receive an inner warning coming from your solar plexus?
Did you ever feel an inspiration or a love dwelling up from deep inside you? Yes, this is totally real and the same laws are applicable to this aspect of your life than to the natural world around you. Reality is wonderful, simple and true and you are right on the path to find it.
Links which might interest you are Grailworld, Masaru Emoto, or articles how love can heal us.
Love is a reality having an affect on our health and our surrounding. Is love coming from your head or from your heart?
Let your thoughts out of play and find what else you carry in yourself and trust it.
Where does your panick come from? From fear. Fear is real too and even has a form and you can feel it. You have in your spirit the tool to decide what you attach to. Is it to love, then you attract to forms of love and circumstances of love. Do you feed fear than you attract fear forms and they will attract even more and more. And all this is as real as when you sow a carrot seed. As if you sow a carrot you will not reap a cucumber but only carrots.

Answer 4

I have read some litterature about panic attacks. But they allways seem to have a more scientific approach and that is nothing I need in my struggle to survive those horrible panic attacks. This is a "hand on" and very practical book. I felt it was written to me. I am sure that you are going to feel the same.

Joe Barry writes exactly how I think. The examples are perfectly described. And the method is genius. I recommend this book and thanks Joe Barry for writing it. It changes your life

Answer 5

You have woken up and are one step away from what we easterners particularly Hindus call moksha, the ultimate liberation! Far from feeling anxious, you ought to celebrate!

The whole world is maya, for when we see it from an individual's perspective, it all ends one day. All things you spoke of, love, pride ownership etc all will vanish and change.

Man lives in delusions because he does not realise this.
You have.
O'Enlightened one, go forth and explore the realm of truth that shall be open to ye.

If you care, you can send me notes to another wayfarer searching out the same thing: to [e-mail].
We can see if we will go to gather.

Answer 6

Think of this: If they are only creations of your head, why can you touch them?
Try this: touch a person longer in his or her hand and feel his or her pulse and look how he or she breaths the air because he or she will not exist anymore or she will die if he or she don't breath so that you can feel and see that he or she is really real and not just an imagination.

Answer 7

There are many levels of real . The ultimate one could only be known by Adepts , or saints . But , the level of real you know now is the one according to your evolution degree . It is true in a way , and you can`t tell it`s illusion only . It`s true cause you feel it inside . When you will " graduate " another knowledge level , you will feel another way , and it will be true , too . It`s like childhood , when we believed in fairy -tales ( and it was good and real to us ) , facing to adulthood . But the adulthood , too , has many degrees .
So , don`t think about what`s real or not , but to improve yourself to see larger pieces of " real truth " .

Answer 8

Look, I've asked you before: what do you mean by "not real"?

Part of your problem is not analysing what you actually mean enough. You are leaving yourself with confused terminology that creates a puzzle. If you enjoy the puzzle that's fine, if not you have to dig down into what you mean.

What does it mean for the world to be "unreal"?

Answer 9

All through our life we meet other people, we learn of them in our family first, we learn who has been our caregivers and place most of our trust to follow them, it is difficult to play without them near or even to go away from home to school where we must include even more people in a trust not nurtured there. when we have grown all we can and have lost the first caregiver of trust , we search the world over for another of the kind.and there we do not find, the rare one of a kind. we do what we can to sooth our nerve to stand one again where we began.A.M.H.

Answer 10

Been there, done that. You have to let it go. So what if it isn't anything. You can still have a good time and love your family and friends. Don't let the thoughts control your life. To me, you're just made up in my head, how do you feel about that?