Breathing exercises for anxiety not only Help with Stress
Channel: Panic Attack Recovery
Date: 2017-04-17

Whether you're looking for anxiety breathing exercises, deep breathing exercises for anxiety, or even breathing exercises for panic attacks, this video is for you.

While this video discusses breathing exercises for anxiety and panic attacks, there's more: breathing exercises for anxiety and panic attacks are one of the most overlooked things you can do to feel better, and quickly. 

This is probably because breathing exercises for anxiety need to be completed on a regular basis before one can truly recognize their benefits.  Proper breathing can help both anxiety and panic attacks.  

Many people feel that they need specific techniques described by some as anxiety breathing exercises.  However, in this video, I would like to share the fundamental techniques of proper breathing that I learned from really good medical doctors.  

This video demonstrates that you really don't need specific anxiety breathing exercises in order to carry out proper breathing and feel better.  In fact, I believe that everyone is too caught up in discovering breathing exercises for anxiety that they believe will act as a magic pill. 

Give the suggestions in this video a sincere try and end your search for that elusive anxiety breathing technique.  I guarantee you won't be disappointed.  You might even save money if you were planning on paying for the latest and greatest breathing exercises for anxiety.

Breathing exercises are one of the most overlooked things for anxiety and panic, probably because they're one of those things that needs to be done on a regular basis before one can recognize their benefits.

The reason you might dismiss the effectiveness of breathing exercises is because you have not had a chance to see the results of incorporating these exercises into a regular routine.  I am confident that you'll find an improvement once this takes place.

I would like to share a technique that I read in Reader's Digest.  It was written by a medical doctor.

Here were go:

The trick is to breathe using your stomach not your chest.  Breathing through your chest is a form of very shallow breathing which you don't want to do.  This is in fact what many anxiety sufferers do and it exacerbates their anxiety.  Dr. Larry Deutsche, M.D. makes a very helpful statement: that over the years anxiety sufferers have got into the habit of shallow breathing.  This makes a lot of sense.

Let me explain it another way:

Imagine that you are trying to take in air through your stomach rather than your chest.  In other words, take a nice deep breath and watch your stomach rise.

You might try the following:

lying flat on your back for several minutes (or as long as you wish)
putting a pillow on your stomach
focus on trying to raise the pillow (which is now on your stomach) as much as you can
The more the pillow rises, the more air you take in.
This is proper breathing.

If you've ever observed newborn babies breathing, they understand proper breathing.  They breathe by raising their stomachs as opposed to their chests.

If you become accustomed to focusing on proper breathing, taking deep breaths - when under stress or feeling anxiety, you'll notice the calming feeling it can bring.  You cause your physiology to relax instead of entering "fight or flight" mode.  As you may be aware, "fight or flight" is the process your body undergoes a panic attack.


 
As I said, a medical doctor wrote about this technique.  This doctor talked about a lung cancer patient he was treating.

At one point the patient became very agitated and distressed because he felt he couldn't breathe.  The doctor suggested to the patient that he give this proper breathing technique a try and the doctor put his hand on the patient's stomach and told him to breathe into his hand.

Well it wasn't very long before the patients O2 stats (indicators of the amount of oxygen circulating in one's bloodstream) and other physiological indicators had normalized and the patient was no longer anxious over his breathing.

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