Breathing to Relieve Anxiety
Nov 30, 2015
Linda Newbold
Nov 30, 2015
- Breathing is an excellent tool to help calm yourself if you notice your reactions are becoming stressed, irritable or anxious
- Whilst you would normally breathe without much awareness, you can bring it within your conscious control and better use of it when you need to react differently
- If you are living with overwhelming anxiety, find a therapist here
Difficult, stressful or traumatic situations often cause shallow breathing, holding of the breath, tight anxious breathing or over-breathing and panic attacks. Negative beliefs and unresolved and non-discharged emotions held in the body from all kinds of difficult situations or trauma create a build up of toxins and breathing properly can help to release them.
It's helpful to remember:
- each time you breathe in you stimulate the sympathetic nervous system SNS to prepare for action
- when you breathe out you stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system PNS which slows down the heart
- If you slow down the out-breath to about double the length of the in-breath you will start to feel more in-control and much calmer
Linda Newbold
A very experienced integrative therapist offering calm and confidential help to resolve a wide variety of problems, including trauma and abuse. I include many creative and cutting edge approaches within a relational base to achieve this. I'm delighted that appreciative feedback from clients has confirmed that a great deal of success and welcome change has taken place for them.
