How Yoga Breathing Exercises Can Help You Control Anxiety
Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga
Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer
4.4 • 858 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2011
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life |
| 0:14.7 | through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your |
| 0:19.9 | anxiety. |
| 0:30.0 | How yoga breathing exercises can help you control anxiety. We will experience anxiety. |
| 0:34.0 | We all experience anxiety from time to time. |
| 0:37.0 | Fleeting moments of nerves before speaking, job interviews, trips to the dentist, or new social situations are common examples of anxiety-provoking |
| 0:46.6 | experiences. |
| 0:48.7 | But this kind of anxiety is more apprehension than anything else. |
| 0:52.2 | We know the cause, and the anxiety we feel is |
| 0:54.8 | specific to that cause. That kind of anxiety isn't a problem. But when anxiety spills outside a specific area and overflows into our life in general, |
| 1:08.0 | affecting our sleep and making us feel jittery, fatigued and afraid, That's when we need to take action and find out how to |
| 1:15.3 | tame and control it again. Here's where yoga breathing exercises can really help you. |
| 1:25.0 | When you control and steady your breath, you have direct impact on your heart rate. |
| 1:28.0 | As your breath slows down and calms down, |
| 1:31.0 | so does your heart, and your mind and thoughts. |
| 1:36.0 | Yoga breathing exercises work in a similar way to meditation in calming and clearing your mind |
| 1:41.0 | and bringing a feeling of relaxation to your entire body. |
| 1:46.0 | You can use breathing exercises to stop adrenaline causing through your veins, |
| 1:50.0 | to activate the relaxation response, to help with dizziness, slow your racing heart, clear your head and bring rational thinking back online. |
| 1:59.0 | With your own breath, you can learn to calm the symptoms of a panic attack and regain a sense of control. |
| 2:07.0 | And it all begins with developing awareness of your breath. |
| 2:11.0 | When we're anxious or stressed, we usually take very shallow breaths, as if we're anxious or stressed we usually take very shallow breaths as if we're breathing from our shoulders, |
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