Self-help Advice for Natural Anxiety Relief

I always feel very confident when I am approached by a new client who suffers from anxiety, fear, phobia or panic attacks. I have helped so many people with these problems and everyone was able to completely eliminate these painful feelings within a matter of weeks.

How can I be so sure that I can help everyone who suffers from anxiety? Because chronic anxiety and similar feelings are not really psychological problems. They may have started at some point through a psychological trauma but in itself chronic fear is the result of breathing in a faulty way. So, all I have to do is to show my clients how to gently correct their breathing and the chronic fearfulness will almost immediately lessen and be completely eliminated after only a few weeks. This is not just a theory – even people in the throes of an acute panic attack have regularly experienced almost immediate relief by changing their breathing. It never took longer then a few minutes until the panic had completely disappeared. In fact, every single client of mine who worked in this way has had a 100% success rate in eliminating their anxiety simply by changing their breathing.

When I explain my approach to curing anxiety to my clients many have trouble believing this because they have a feeling that there is something deeply wrong with them on a psychological level. But that is not true. There is nothing wrong with them – they only have a faulty breathing habit that results in anxiety.

What is this faulty breathing habit? To put it simply – it is over-breathing – inhaling too much and too fast. Inhaling too much and too fast for a long period of time changes the chemical balance in our body in a very destructive way. Just like over-eating produces bloating in the short-term and obesity in the long-term, over-breathing creates stress and anxiety symptoms and even panic attacks.

So, what does the breathing technique look like that will cure our chronic anxiety? Simply put – we need to breathe less. This is how you do it:

Inhale naturally (not strained or very deeply), immediately exhale and then take a break and do not breathe in again. The longer the break the more quickly your chronic anxiety will be cured. Continue to inhale, exhale and then pause as long as possible. Always breathe through your nose. If you can hold your breath after the exhalation for about 15 seconds you are doing really well. If you can hold your breath even longer it is even better. Remember, you always hold your breath AFTER exhalation on empty lungs. Continue breathing in this way for 10 to 20 minutes with full concentration. During the day slow down your breathing as much as possible whenever your anxiety comes up. This is the entire cure for all anxiety!

‘But will I get enough oxygen if I breathe so little?’ someone has asked me recently. The answer is a resounding ‘yes’. In fact, theoxygen in your blood will be delivered even more efficiently to your brain and inner organs if you breathe more slowly. And what is most important, you will feel calmer and your anxiety will disappear.

Is this advice too simple? Sometimes people dismiss this quick solution to their anxiety problem because they just cannot imagine that it should be so easy. If that is the case, they do not give this approach a serious try. That would be rather sad because nobody has to live with anxiety – you can get rid of it quite easily.

The best approach is to measure your average fear on a scale of 0 to 10, breathe correctly for two weeks and then check how much your anxiety has gone down. You will find that your anxiety will have decreased at least two points. If you continue with the breathing technique your fears will lessen more and more with every week. After a month or two you will not need to do the breathing exercise any more because it will have become an unconscious healthy habit.

For a more detailed and expanded explanation about natural anxiety relief and anxiety treatments without medication please refer to my book The Five-Minute Miracle.

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