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Why Deep Breathing Doesn’t Help Anxiety

Why Deep Breathing Doesn’t Help Anxiety

  • April 21, 2019
  • Anxiety Exercise

Imagine this…

Your eyes are closed. You can hear the hum of a crowd around you. Your face is flushed from the heat of the lights bearing down on you. You forcefully exhale the breath you didn’t realize you’ve been holding and open your eyes. You are on stage looking out at the crowd in front of you waiting for you to begin your performance. There’s only one problem… you never practiced. Well shit. That’s not good.

Sounds like a nightmare right? Most people would never try to perform something, whether it’s a musical act, a sport, or a comedy routine, without first practicing the heck out of it. So why do you do it when you try to cope with your anxiety symptoms?

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Episode 60: All About Breathing

Episode 60: All About Breathing

  • May 10, 2017
  • Anxiety ExercisePodcast

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For this episode, I was feeling a little too overwhelmed by the week to do a Q&A so instead I decided to talk to you all about breathing. We talk about different breathing exercises and how to practice them so that they are useful to you in moments of stress or anxiety. We cover the physiological mechanism behind relaxation breathing. Finally, we briefly cover mindfulness and meditative breathing.

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Episode 36: A Guided Muscle Relaxation

Episode 36: A Guided Muscle Relaxation

  • November 16, 2016
  • Anxiety ExercisePodcast

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Things have been weird over here in the states. I need a break from podcasting this week and I think we could all use a little relaxation. Whether this relaxation is to help you cope or to rejuvenate you to get back out there and keep at it… you deserve a few deep breaths. What I uploaded for you this week is a guided muscle relaxation. There is no intro or anything like that. I just dive straight into a walkthrough of how you can use your breath and muscle tension to put yourself into a deep state of relaxation. Enjoy and take good care of yourselves.

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This GIF Can Stop Your Anxiety Part 2

This GIF Can Stop Your Anxiety Part 2

  • July 9, 2016
  • Anxiety ExerciseBlog PostPopular

I have done a post like this before, but that was based on an animated gif that someone else made. This time, I commissioned someone to make an animation out of my personal favorite breathing exercise to help stop your anxiety. It’s called 4-7-8 breathing and it goes like this…

Stop Your Anxiety GIF

Please feel free to save/share/steal this image if you need it.

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This GIF Can Stop Your Anxiety

This GIF Can Stop Your Anxiety

  • February 5, 2015
  • Anxiety ExerciseBlog PostPopular

I’m so glad you’re here! Since this post, I’ve actually added another guided relaxation with a GIF that I had commissioned just for Duff the Psych. You can see that post here!
Breathe along to this. Nice and slow. Breath comes in, breath goes out.

breathe gif

Please follow along with me and if you would like…

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