Hi Bead,
in the therapy that I'm doing for my 'cfs' they talk about 'cellular memories' & how the body uses these in order maybe to protect itself. eg: if you were stung by a bee your body 'records' this (creates a cellular memory) in order to know how to react next time & therefore to try & protect itself.
An anxious person might start to feel unwell / panicky in a supermarket queue & so next time you're in a shop queue your head starts thinking 'uh oh-last time I was here I felt unwell & in a split second your brain thinks 'danger' & sends messages via hormones to tell your body to react-fight or flight which then makes us feel panicky because these feelings are out of context.
You probably know all this but I think this is what RLR means by a conditioned physical response-if I'm wrong RLR please correct me.

I know what you mean about getting these symptoms when you don't feel anxious. When I had my palpitations yesterday I was having a pretty good day & was just flicking through a catalogue feeling very relaxed. I know that if I wasn't getting palps I wouldn't be as anxious but I also understand that how I think caused the anxiety state in the first place.

I know with anxiety that if you lose one symptom another one takes it's place so even if my palps got better I would start to focus on another symptom so I know I have to learn to deal with the anxiety & then I hope everything else will fall in to place.

I wonder if NLP might help with this as I think this kind of 'reprogrammes' how you think / react. Don't know enough about it.
I'll be interested in RLR's reply to your post Bead!
Glad that they seem to be easing up for you abit-it's about time!!
love Seffie xx

I appear to have cursed myself (LOL) - the palpitations are already back just as badly as before.  So really cheesed off.

I feel really disappointed as day to day is a struggle with constant ectopics - being out of breath all the time and dealing with position changes is a challenge. It's like my heart can't deal with changes in blood pressure at all and can't catch up with what it needs to. I don't know, that is what it feels like.