That's a great technique, Nick. I'm going to remember it. I also suffered from anxiety attacks, not related to public speaking, but as a result of a car accident several years ago. I found that, after a while, I could almost always create an attack from thin air, which also taught me how to take control of them! For example, I would be in an enclosed space like an elevator and I would think to myself, "I might have a panic attack in here." And because I started thinking about it, I created it. That taught me how to talk myself *out* of an attack, first by using breathing to physically calm my body, then by using self-talk to tell my brain to stop messing around and that I'm really fine.