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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk about

breathing and anxiety. We cover breathing a lot here and there, but I had a

great question that came in from a listener, so I want to go over this again and

share with you my answer to our listeners

questions. So let me just jump right in and read the question from our listener and then we'll get right down to the answer.

Hi Gina, thank you for all that you do.

It was such a great step for me to find this podcast. I am from Russia. Unfortunately, they don't

usually talk about such things here. I have one question concerning breathing issues. I have found out recently that I am hyperventilating much of the time even when it seems that I feel calm.

I always want to take an extra breath

and after many attempts to do that, my chest gets tighter.

I guess this is due to the muscles working. When I concentrate on

other things I stop taking the extra breaths, but then I remember and it starts over again. At these moments I also start yawning a lot.

At night and during exercise I feel okay. How is it possible to overcome this? I am

thinking of breathing practices but they are all so different I don't know which one to do.

Thank you a lot.

And that was from our listener in Russia.

I said listener, but maybe there's more than one of you. Anyway it's wonderful that you

wrote thank you so much and I also had permission to read this email from our

listener so what I want to get down to here is that I know you really do feel

better when you're exercising because the breathing naturally shifts and to accommodate the increase in your exertion.

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