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Yoga For Panic Attack Anxiety Stress For people suffering from frequent panic attacks, anxiety, or stress it is very important to be aware that these experiences are not out of the ordinary and are in fact experienced by most people around the world.
Fear, stress or anxiety, are all natural feelings that we experience if all our bodily functions are running smoothly. These feelings however, become a problem when your nervous system is out of sync and you start to experience such feelings, even when completely uncalled for.
Your body is just doing its job. The problem starts with your nervous system being out of sync. Your body is made in such a way that it reacts very fast to help you escape from danger. In a panic attack the problem is that the danger is imagined, not real. Even so the onset of attacks will, as a rule, be based on previous events. Every attack is linked to the “flight-or-fight response”. Likewise, every exhalation is linked to the relaxation response.
Folks afflicted by anxiety and panic find that their inhalation is more prevalent over their exhalation. Yoga’s approach in dealing with the problem is to bring both sides of the nervous system back to balance. Folks suffering from panic attacks and anxiety are usually shallow breathers, inasmuch as they are also normally highly creative and imaginative people. So Yoga’s philosophy is simple. Alter your breathing patterns and you take care of the anxiety and panic attacks.
Yoga poses (called asanas), help stretch and relax the muscles and skeletal system. In so doing, the bodily release as a result of these comforting movements definitely help bring about a sense of calmness and well-being. All exercises tend to help people suffering from high anxiety and panic levels. Yoga poses carry the additional bonus of generating especially deep muscle relaxation. At the same time they tone up the nervous system and muscles.
Equally important in Yoga are breathing exercises. The too help create a balance within the system. These breathing exercises are called pranayama and focus on breathing with deep philosophical roots. Pranayama focuses on employing deep breathing techniques to bring about a balance of prana (vital life force) within the body. When there is less prana in the system, we tend to become restive and feel hemmed in. likewise, anxiety is the by-product of prana imbalance. Here too deep Yoga breathing exercises help brings more prana into the system. It’s simple, and it definitely helps develop a new habit of deeper, healthier breathing overall.
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| Submitted on July 16, 2010 |
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