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Great tips! Thanks Alex – I’ve never heard of these before so I will be giving them a go, no doubt in the near future. Thank-you for sharing!
Thanks Alex,
I do incorporate deep breathing when I feel anxious.
I will try this paper bag method starting today.
Maybe this will help me with the lightheaded dizzy feeling.
Your information has really helped me.
Loving Kindness,
Susan
Really good advise, although I found the breath sharply for two seconds, hold two seconds and breathe out for six seconds kinda made me feel light headed.
thanx very good of u to share your experience with breathing i have phobias and panic disorder and will try anything
I would really recommend these techniques. I’ve been doing some breathing exercises for a while and the DO help. I’m seeing a therapist for my panic attacks and he recommends using just cupped hands over your mouth and nose (in case there is no bag available). He told me that years ago miners used to use this technique to preserve oxygen if there had been a pit collapse. It not only saved their lives but helped to keep them calm !!!!!!!!! Thanks Alex for being here. Gerry
hi alex, thank you for making this video. i have breathing issues (usually hold my breath during stressful times), and the tip at the end about breathing into a paper bag at times throughout the day sounds so logical, i’m definitely going to try it.
Hi Alex,
I always love hearing your voice and your suggestions; your voice alone calms me down, and the breathing exercises were helpful. I too have panic attacks much less frequently in general. I find just knowing I’ve gone through this many times before very helpful. One advantage of just growing older?
Thanks for sharing your ideas with us. I always look forward to the next video. Great pictures of cats! Do you love them as I do?
Alex,
As well as proper breathing, I find it very helpful to have water with you at times of potential stress. Also wear light clothing as the claustrophobic feeling of too many clothes is unbearable, I think aerating your body internally and externally very helpful if not curative in panic situations
Kevin
Very good tips. Breathing is so very important and these are very simple techniques to use at any time. I like the bag idea.
Sometimes when I am doing breathing exercises, such as the relaxing breathing and calming breathing, I find it helpful to picture a very calm, serene scene in my mind, and then focus on it – color, sounds, smells, etc. Really concentrate on details of the scene I’m viewing. Breathing and guided imagery like this are beneficial to me to distract the panic and break the cycle. I also use mantras sometimes, verbally speaking them, to disrupt the panic. My favorite is “healthy, vital, strong”, but it really doesn’t matter what you use.
thank you for the tips! Do you think that if I continue to do the breathing in the paper bag thing that eventually I can correct my shallow breathing? thanks!
Hello Alex I think that all the tips are good. My panic is almost non existent from all the help you have given in your videos. This has help me feel normal again and I keep going back to reinforce the tricks and information you have supplied in your videos. I would like to thank you as without this information, I would probably be still feeling all the stress of these terrible attacks. Again Thank you for sharing and keep up the great work.
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i find this very interesting, i am getting information for my daughter,she;s had a lot of seizures, ending up in I.C.U under a medical comma for a week. when she gets home , she has panic attacks,ive shown her the paper bag one, its helped already. she was getting them between 4 and 5 each day, now its just now and again. so i think the rest of it will help a lot more. also its helping me, i don’t panic , but i can feel anxious, so the breathing ones are good thankyou .carol
Alex,
I strongly urge you to look into Buteyko breathing for vitality and calmness. Please, also, check out EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) for anxiety relief and personal growth. I have personally benefited greatly from the aforementioned. Feel free to call me at 312-355-2306 if you wish to discuss.
Jack
PLEASE LOOK!! Alex thank you again for another good video , But i want to tell u and everyone else how i went from extreme anxiety – feelings that for some reason i thought i was going to stab my kid- to being normal again,i know it sounds stupid and silly right, well it turns out it really is silly and stupid its all made up , like when one is a kid and is scare of monsters they dont really exist but you see them on tv and you toy with the idea of them until you start believing your own lies! lies, lies, lies that’s all they are and you need to take the blindfold off and realize that!. The reason i started having this problems was because you always hear on tv about a man going crazy murdering his family and plus you watch scary disturbing movies sometimes and you start toying with the idea in your head that you might also be in danger of these kind of happenings and before you know it you start believing it. sound familiar? LIES LIES LIES!!! take the blindfold off and live life theres so much more good there, find a hobby , get involved in something , be positive, life is GOOD AGAIN!
If anyone would want to discuss of ask me for help i’m here for you -loon1871@yahoo.com no matter how small i will help you. DO not BE AFRAID Friends!
I AM IVAN GARCIA AND I LAUGH AT THE FACE OF DANGER!!!
hello i suffer from social aniexty and i was wondering i u had any tips on that bascally i feel very akward walking roound and sitting down having ci=onverstio or eating or doing something i feel very messy and for ths reason i have droped out of college becaue i cant face the world anymore , i am very scared for my future as i dont no who will giv me a job as i cant even explain myself properly….plzzzzz helppppp
ivan, you are aware that people don’t have social anxiety by choice aren’t you? So telling us to “take off the blindfold and live life” is kinda pointless. if we could do that then we wouldn’t have a problem in the first place.
Anyway great vid Alex! I’ll be sure to try out these techniques.
Hi Alex,
Thank you for your email with new tricks to stop anxiety.these tricks are realy very helpful.Hope to receive some more.
regards,
aamir
thanks for this video
I have used the first one for a while but I think the last technique will be really useful. Almost looking forward to feeling bad to try it out! I haven’t heard about that bag thing wither so will give that ago. As usual, some great ideas here, Alex.