What To Do If You Have A Panic Attack?
According to the latest research, breathing is effective when you have a panic attack, but why is that?
There is no doubt that having panic attacks or anxiety attacks at public places, or workplaces is a serious problem.
Thinking about what should and could you do if you face this situation can be a little overwhelming. What can you do to stay calm, and have all the control to deal with a stressful situation?
In this blog, we will explain why, according to the latest research, having a panic attack can be helped, and be calmed down by breathing, and how far breathing techniques can be very effective.
Why Breathing Is Effective When You Face Panic Attacks?
According to the latest and several recently published studies, scientists have explored the effectiveness of different breathing techniques and found that one method — which is called SKY Breath Meditation — offered the best results for both immediate and long-term stress reduction, while facing a stressful situation of having a normal panic attack.
What Is SKY Breath Meditation?
SKY Breath Meditation is well known as a comprehensive series of breathing and meditation exercises. Those exercises are engaging with the parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system is mainly responsible for the body’s “rest and digest” activities, and breathing can help you to calm down and think rationally in the face of stress.
By applying that simple technique it can help you sustain greater emotional wellbeing and lower your stress levels at work and beyond.
Simple Breathing Technique Can Save Your Life!
According to a story of one of the soldiers in the US Army, when he was bleeding to death, he started applying a simple breathing technique that he read about years ago, and he found out later that if he hadn’t done so he would have bled to death.
If a simple breathing technique could save this soldier’s life, then it can certainly help the rest of us with our more common workplace stresses.
What Are Those “Simple” Breathing Techniques?
There are 3 techniques when it comes to breathing techniques, and they are:
Breathing Exercises: As we mentioned above, SKY Breath Meditation, is one of the breathing techniques that help in lowering the stress level, as it is a comprehensive series of breathing and meditation exercises learned over several days that is designed to induce calm and resilience.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: a meditation technique in which you train yourself to be aware of each moment in a non-judgmental way.
Foundations of Emotional Intelligence: a program that teaches techniques to improve emotional awareness and regulation.
So, Why breathing is effective?
So, to sum this topic up, it is pretty hard to take yourself out of string emotions like stress, severe anxiety, or even anger. But with breathing techniques, it is possible to gain some mastery over your mind.
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