Breathing and Anxiety

When your feeling anxious it becomes very easy to forget about breathing correctly. Muscular tension and stress can alter your breathing adding to your feelings of panic or anxiety.

Learning how to breath correctly can have a huge effect on the way you feel and can:

• Decrease your heart rate
• Lower blood pressure
• Decrease metabolism
• Help with muscle pain and cramps
• Increase circulation helping with pins and needle feelings

Breathing the wrong way can cause symptoms including:

• Dizziness
• Tingling
• Shortness of breath
• pins and needles
• muscle pain
• shaking
• and more

Tips for proper breathing:

• Breathe your anxiety away
• Breathing the Yoga Way