Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and

tranquility in your life through anxiety release exercises and supportive

tools created to slay your anxiety. Welcome to Anxiety Slayer.

I'm Shan Vanderleak here

with my friend and partner Ananga Severe. We come together weekly

on Skype to share anxiety slayer sessions with you and answer listener questions

for our inbox and Facebook page. Together Ananga and I are armed with a powerful

collection of techniques to reduce anxiety. And this week we're answering the

question, how do you do the breathing exercises for anxiety relief

when you hyperventilate when you're anxious?

I thought that was a really great question in Anga because I know that this has got to be something that many of our listeners have faced before.

Yeah, it's a popular question actually because trying to control your breath when you have the tendency to

hyperventilate when you're anxious is very difficult so my answer to that would

be done don't do breathing exercises when you're hyperventilating. If you want to do something very

gentle to calm your breath down, then focus on your out breath, which is a very similar thing

to when they say or has a very similar

effect to when they say breathe into a paper bag when you're hyperventilating so to just drop

your shoulders relax your jaw make sure your hands are on clench, just let your body go as

limp and relaxed as you can.

Don't try and breathe in, just when the next breath starts to go out, just push it out long and slow.

And might need to purse your lips and just sigh the breath out

and then pause and let your breathing continue doing its thing.

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