924: Why Breathing Too Much Causes Feelings of Panic
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of how we breathe in our experience of and recovery from anxiety. Learn the basics of breathing and why slowing down the breath can do wonders for calming our nervous system. Learn how to breathe more through your nose and do so more slowly and reduce your anxiety today!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore |
| 0:12.9 | anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello, how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm your host and coach, Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today as |
| 0:34.6 | together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural |
| 0:41.5 | peace and calm. |
| 0:43.5 | In today's episode, I wanted to talk about why breathing too much causes feeling of panic, |
| 0:50.9 | and I wanted to start with a quote by BKS Iangar, and he said, regulate the breathing |
| 0:58.1 | and thereby control the mind. |
| 1:01.2 | This is such an important quote to me because when I first learned about breathing and how |
| 1:09.3 | it could change not only my physiology but my psychology, I felt like it put me on the |
| 1:17.3 | path to health and wellness again. |
| 1:20.9 | I really noticed big changes so much so that I had my health food stores at the time, |
| 1:27.7 | and I remember people talking to me about their anxiety or their distress or whatever their |
| 1:35.8 | panic. |
| 1:36.8 | I don't think we used that word so much then, but they would be wanting to buy supplements |
| 1:41.8 | and trying this and trying that, and I'd take them over to the little reading corner |
| 1:46.0 | where we had some quiet area to talk, and I wanted to just tell them about breathing. |
| 1:52.2 | Of course, my business was in helping them get the products they needed, but I swear to |
| 1:58.8 | God it made such a big difference in my life, I felt like I had to share the word, and |
| 2:04.7 | that's probably why I am doing this podcast because I know there are so many things you |
| 2:10.9 | can do just for yourself that will make a huge difference, and I hope that you will |
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