Push Away Panic Attacks With Breathing Exercises

Most people when they have panic attacks or anxiety attacks, they tend to breathe very shallow and take very short breathes that come from inside the chest. This is called Thoracic breathing.This can cause the oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the body to be disturbed which then results in the heart beating faster, being dizzy,and tightness in your muscles, increasing the likelihood of a panic attack or anxiety whichever you are prone to. This also results in the blood not getting enough oxygen which creates stress responses which increases anxiety and panic attacks.
Abdominal breathing is using the diaphragm or the stomach to breathe. When you are sleeping or relaxing this is the way most people breathe and the way you should always breathe. Newborns also breathe this way.
How to breathe with abdominal breathing techniques.
Put your hand on your waist and the other one on your chest. As you breathe see which one goes up first. If you are doing it right your stomach will go up and down with each breathe that you take.
Try this breathing technique
1.Breathe deeply through your nose,expanding your stomach.
2.Exhale through the mouth and as you let out the air purse up your lips and keep the jaw loose. You might hear a whoosh sound.
Do it several times in a row.
You can do it anywhere,lying down, standing up on a bus .Try it.If it makes you slightly panicky stop and try it again later slowly easing into it.