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How To Breathe Through Your Next Panic Attack

If you are unfortunate enough to suffer from panic attacks, you will know that there are a wide variety of symptoms. All of them are distressing and can have a negative impact on how you live your life, maybe even causing you to be constantly worried about when your next panic attack will arrive.

By learning to control how you breathe, you can make a vast difference to your panic attacks and, given time and practice, you may even be able to stop them dead in their tracks.

Initially, it may not be easy to breathe into your panic attack. It is worth practicing these breathing exercises so that they will become a natural reaction for you.

Breathing exercises are a simple yet effective way to deal with your panic attacks.

Learning to breathe from the diaphragm

You need to learn how to breathe from your diaphragm. Once you've learned this method, you'll find that it becomes second nature. Initially it may seem a slightly odd way to breathe. Stick with it and you'll see some positive results quite fast.

Breathing from the diaphragm is actually the most natural method of breathing. You used it as a baby but, over time, you have learned other, less natural breathing methods. Now is the time to re-learn!

Place one hand on your abdomen (the part of your body that lies between your chest and your thigh) and the other hand on your chest. As you start to breathe, your chest should remain still and barely moving as you breathe in. Instead, your stomach should expand with the air you are breathing in.

Once you've taken a deep breath in, slowly start to exhale. Imagine that all the air leaves your body as you breathe out.

The aim of this technique is to slow down your breathing. After a few deep breaths, you should be taking around six breaths a minute. Probably quite a few less than the shallow breaths you are taking at the moment.

Your breathing rhythm should be slow and natural. There's no need to rush. Your stomach should rise and fall smoothly. Although I suggested imagining that you are breathing all the air out of your body, keep that thought in your imagination. Don't strain breathing in or out.

If you feel dizzy or light headed when practicing this new breathing method, just stop and relax. Once you are back to normal, start to practice again. Keep up the practice for a few minutes.

Congratulations! Now that you've learned this breathing technique, you can simply apply it whenever you feel the symptoms of a panic attack coming along. At the slightest hint of any of the symptoms, start to breathe from your diaphragm. This alone should reduce the risk of hyperventilating when you next suffer from a panic attack.

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Anxiety Disorder and Panic Attacks- The Ultimate "Rush"

For instance anxiety itself seems to be a precursor to panic attacks. What I mean by this is that you will experience some anxiety symptoms, and depending on your level of overall stress at the time, will determine if you may lapse into a full blown panic attack or not.

What happens is that being an intelligent person that you are you gain some perspective into your own thought process and when you become aware of the common stress indicators that you have been accustomed to, your mind then triggers the fear factor.

Your mind tells your body that it recalls a similar experience from a previous anxiety feeling that lead into a panic attack. Since previous anxiety and panic attacks can leave a profound imprint in your thought process your mind immediately relates and pulls up defense mechanisms that can trigger the release of adrenaline into your blood stream.

The injection of adrenaline into your blood stream causes you too feel what is commonly called "hot flashes" and rapid heart beat followed by some breathing symptoms as hyper ventilating.

There are many more Anxiety disorder symptoms associated with panic attacks.

Often people are too embarrassed or can't explain the feelings that they have but it is very common to have in addition to the above symptoms, intense thoughts of unreality and a fear of dying, along with rapid heart beats, or even skipping heart beats.

Especially in children and young adults they can become very afraid to go to an adult for fear that nobody will understand and say they are crazy.

Because anxiety disorder and panic attacks are self perpetuating and escalated by ones fears and thoughts they can become quite debilitating and cause people to withdraw and become isolated in their own world.

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