How to Deal With Anxiety Effectively With Breathing Exercises

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How to Deal With Anxiety Effectively

Wondering how to deal with anxiety? Here’s a quick breathing exercise that can really calm things down. It’s called the 4, 7, 8 breathing technique. To do this, breathe in through your nose for 4 counts, hold it in for 7 counts and then exhale for 8 counts. The elongated exhale helps calm your nerves and relax any anxiety you may be experiencing. Mental health and well-being are just as important as working to make a living. Let’s be good to ourselves and breathe through the stress 🙂

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Having this prolonged exhale on the out breath is super important for calming the body and dropping out of the sympathetic nervous system into the parasympathetic nervous system.

How to Deal With Anxiety Effectively With Breathing Exercises

Hi there.

So today we’re going to be focusing on breathing for anxiety.

We all face anxiety in our day to day, whether it be answering emails from our boss, whether it be going through a hard time with our partner, and being able to control the breath and become aware of the breath is a really important part to control your anxiety or stress.

The specific breathing exercise that we’re going to be focusing on today for this is the four, seven, eight breathing technique, which involves inhaling for four counts through the nose, holding at the top.

Then seven counts and exhaling out of the mouth for eight counts.

Having this prolonged exhale on the out breath is super important for calming the body and dropping out of the sympathetic nervous system into the parasympathetic nervous system.

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