Dr Emma Sepala, who is a psychologist, author of sovereign and internationally renowned happiness expert,

explains why you can't think your way out of anxiety and how the breath, body and nervous system hold the key to deep emotional healing.

So I was in New York City during 9-11, and after that day, I had a lot of anxiety every morning

at 8.30, you know, and I tried a lot of things. I went to like hot yoga, you know, five times a

week, and I followed these, like, Tibetan monks to all their talks in New York

City and I you know I'd feel peace for a little bit but it just wasn't lasting I'm and I was still

shaking at 8.30 in the morning every day and so before I had to get it I go out of the building so I

um until I walked into this breathing class called sky breath meditation art of, it's offered by a nonprofit called Art of Living,

which is a world.

It was started in India and it's all over the world now.

It's deeply entrenched in like the traditional yoga philosophy and culture.

But it's not what you would learn in your local yoga class.

It's much more in depth.

It's called sky breath meditation.

And I took the class just thinking, gosh, this is just another thing.

It's not going to help me.

And then, lo and behold, you know, my anxiety went away.

And I, you know, what is it, 20, 25 years later, I'm still

doing my sky breath meditation every day. It was very transformative. And I was able to just

move on, you know, and excel at what I was doing and feel so much better. And about 10 years

later, I was a postdoctoral research assistant, a postdoc in psychology at the University of Wisconsin.

And I was seeing all these veterans with trauma and not being helped.

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