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Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

How Yoga Breathing Exercises Can Help You Control Anxiety

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Education

4.4858 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2011

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Yoga breathing exercises work in a similar way to meditation in calming and clearing your mind and bringing a feeling of relaxation to your entire body. In this podcast Ananga talks about how learning some simple exercises can help you control anxiety.

Transcript

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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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