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.

One of the many challenges of living with anxiety is that it can make us feel really confused and bewildered. It can also affect our short-term memory.

And it's a real challenge because it's hard to get on top of anything and work out a strategy

unless you've got some space in your mind and some clarity of thought to do

so.

So in this podcast I'd like to share a really simple technique that's very popular in Iraveda, India's

ancient science of living a long and healthy life and also in yoga. And it comes from a collection of breathing techniques which are referred to as

Pran a yam. Pran refers to our vital breath, the energy of breath moving within our body that moves our thoughts and all our nervous impulses,

and Yama, minced in Sanskrit to control.

So these exercises Pr Prana Yum,

are ways of working with controlling the breath. And yoga and Irava give very specific ways

of doing this. There are several different pruning arm techniques each

with their own methods of practice and their own benefits. And the one I'm going

to share today is a lovely technique called Brahmery, the Bumblebee

breath. This breathing technique gets its name from the sound you make when you're practicing

it, which is supposed to imitate the sound of a bumblebee.

It's been known for thousands of years to calm the mind, calm the nervous system.

This has been confirmed by recent research which has proven that when we make a humming noise in a meditative state,

it genuinely relaxes our mind and increases the release of serotonin.

It's very good for headaches and releasing tension in the head.

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