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Your intense and compelling fears are the result of gross misperceptions about the underlying nature of benign palpitations. You must come to understand that these events do not originate in the heart and are therefore not a sign of a heart problem whatsoever. Furthermore, because of the actual true nature of benign palpitation events, they are entirely incapable of causing any type of cardiac event or transformation into some type of dangerous arrhythmia. It's not medically possible and yet your believe it is because you misunderstand their actual cause and potential.
Benign palpitations, in the most basic term, is the equivalent of a muscle twitch that occurs from time to time elsewhere in your body. For instance, myokymia is a very common manifestation and the term simply equates with twitching of the eyelid, a very common occurrence for people from time to time and often the result of fatigue, stress or anxiety. Well the exact same premise is true for benign palpitations with the exception that the heart muscle is twitching or responding to wayward innervation by the vagus nerve. Due to the dynamic nature of the heart, these twitches result in paroxysmal or irregular contraction of either the atria or the ventricles and the response by one or the other is entirely dependent upon precisely when the evoked potential, or nerve impulse, enters the tissues during the cardiac cycle.
You must combat your fears with undeniable logic. Your health and physiology does not exist in a world where absolutely anything is possible. Humans are biological organisms with known characteristics and patterns of life which do not yield to boundless speculation as to their ability to transform from these known parameters. It's no different than any other belief system which can, in some instances, guide your daily patterns of life. Simply because many people give way to these beliefs does not give them validity. Do you understand? When people establish beliefs, they can sometimes be based upon inaccurate information that is derived by way of cause & effect thinking strategies.
This type of pattern is the very same origin from which superstitions arise and become quite formidable in the lives of some persons. It is a compelling internal sensation that an actual connection exists between events simply by virtue of their proximity in time. In ancient times, this sort of pattern guided many cultures and we still see it in existence today. For instance, if people of a native village act out of context to their social order and the eruption of a volcano occurs within close proximity in time period, it is human nature in persons who lack a more sophisticated knowledge about volcanos as part of naturally occurring events, to immediately interpret a connection as though their contrary actions or thoughts actually influenced the onset of the volcanic eruption. As as result, consensus can be derived by virtue of fearful consequences, i.e. risk of death, that can influence sometimes entire cultures to act or behave in a certain manner to avoid reprisal.
Now that's a fairly simplistic example, but one that is very real and it's place here simply illustrates the commonality of establishing life patterns based upon beliefs that are both irrational and inaccurate. The person generally affected by benign palpitations does not possess a background in medicine and therefore, they can only apply what information they know in their estimation to be relevant.
It's also critical that you realize the all-oowerful influence of human nature from a biological standpoint. Realize that all animals, humans included, possess basic survival instincts which come to bear upon any event which is construed to represent a threat to one's life. For many persons suffering benign palpitations, this is the hallmark of underlying concern and therefore, produces variable but relentless underlying concerns that their life, their survival, is at risk. Well the brain takes that sort of interpretation very seriously and it responds innately to identify the fear, assess its potential and take steps to prevent it, all of which occurs in a manner that causes the individual to feel such influences as very natural. Indeed they are. They are instinctual and it is this gut instinct which causes the circumstances to seem so compelling in nature, i.e. continuous testing and seeking despite what the test results reveal. In other words, as long as the fear exists, no matter how much it is repressed, the brain will continue to persist and compel the individual to overcome it or alternatively create distance to the extent that safety is restored.
That's the plateau where most persons who seek out this forum exist upon and it takes a good deal of determination and realization of the true facts in order to reverse the process which was originally initiated.
Here's how that process typically arises. A person experiences or is exposed to a significant life event. The perception of that event, if significant enough, can challenge the self-confidence and individual security to the extent that vulnerability arises, whether subtle or overt in nature. This type of emotional experience is more often than not enduring and the resulting stress begins to impart changes in physiology. This transformation is often recognized as mere situational stress and no direct correlation is perceived between the particular life circumstances and its impact on the body from a physical standpoint.
Because of its extended nature, physiological manifestations which arise are almost universally misinterpreted as symptoms of medical illness or disease. Unlike most of these manifestations, the onset of vagus nerve-induced palpitation events gain fast attention by the individual and because it's related to their heart, the immediate impression causes fear of that special type we previously spoke about.
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