Can You Breathe Your Way Out of Stress and Anxiety?

Being anxious and feeling stressed is a fact of life, but how you deal with it is the key. Can you relieve your anxiety with just your breath? Dr. Ian Smith shares a breathing technique designed to help you move through feelings of stress.

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[angelamangum]

Deep breathing has helped me at times.

[MKF]

There's other breathing exercises besides the 4-7-8 too, like 4-4-4, 4-5-6 etc there's different ones but I personally prefer not to do the ones where you're holding your breath for more than 4 to 5 seconds, especially if you're having an anxiety or panic attack, breathing in those situations properly aren't easy since you're trying to calm down.

[annetteslife]

I do breathe my way out of anxiety as well as going for walks and meditation

[jennyrose]

Maybe some people can. It's never worked for me. When my heart goes up to 150 bpm during panic mode not able to stop shaking much less breathe slowly

[debzdebz]

Doctors please help me with my anxiety 52 and mind is racing

[waltermarlin]

I smoke weed to put my head at mellow.

[sassykaren]

I have already tried the breathing technique, but when I feel a panic attack coming on, it doesn’t work for me at all!

[Lkmsundastood]

You empty the lung out of the air lmao

[noahkelley]

Dude said "you empty your lungs out of your air" he must be anxious to be talking dixlexic like that he should empty his air out of his lungs instead.