Overcoming Panic Attacks

Welcome to this meditation where I will guide you through a short breathing technique to help you slow down your nervous system during extreme anxiousness or a panic attacks.

When we are overly anxious, or find ourselves having a panic attack, our sympathetic nervous system begins to go into fight or flight. Adrenaline, cortisol and heart rate increases causing us to feel like we can't breathe decreasing oxygen and increasing carbon dioxide.

Concentrating on breathing in for a series of breaths, shorter on the inhale, and longer on the exhale will begin to calm the whole nervous system, and bring yourself back into a calmer state of being.

Anytime you feel anxiousness or a panic attack try this technique. Best used sitting up to allow more space for air to move through your lungs. This is just a tool to assist in these moments, but not a solution. Please see a professional if you are struggling, and these tools aren't working. You are not alone.

Sending you love.