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.

How to use belly breathing to calm anxiety.

Your breath and your mind have an intimate relationship.

If your breath is fast and shallow, it can stir up thoughts and increase anxiety.

But if you learn to notice your breath and slow it down, you can

rein your thoughts in and calm your mind. Here's one easy way to use your breath to

lighten your load.

belly breathing.

belly breathing is good for releasing anger and upsetting thoughts. It's also useful for pain relief and

relaxation in general. Place your right hand over the center of your chest and

your left hand over the center of your chest and your left hand over the center of your stomach and take a slow deep breath in.

If you notice that the hand on your stomach rises higher than the hand on your chest,

you have been successful in drawing that breath deeply into the depths of your lungs.

If that isn't what happened for you, take a minute or two to

experiment. Be sure to empty your lungs fully on your out-breath to encourage the next breath in to deepen and

cause your stomach to rise. Exhale through your mouth, letting the breath out slowly

and completely.

When you feel that your lungs are nearly empty,

pull your stomach in a little to squeeze the very last molecules of air from your lungs.

Repeat four times until you have completed five cycles of deep refreshing abdominal breathing.

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