Will (does) Yoga help with anxiety attacks?

If you use yoga as a relaxation method it can help you do learn some techniques to help calm yourself. This might help if you are an anxious or panic prone person.

Good luck trying to get into even a basic yoga position while having a panic attack. I do hear it’s good for decreasing anxiety in general, though.

Yes.

The deep breathing techniques you learn along with yoga are very good for calming down

Yoga breathing can definitely help reduce anxiety.

Yes, breathing exercises, yoga, meditation all have a calming effect.

It might help you to remeber that anxiety is a false threat created by mind.

Our thoughts do become feelings.

Anxiety is the bodies reaction of fight or flight spurred by unrealistic thought processes.

You are safe in your bed, no threat to your well being, no wolves at the door so to speak..BUT…your mind creates the body sensation response of threat, only it is all in your imagination.

I only experenced anxiety attacks once during a divorce some years ago, it was not a pleasant feeling.

Fortunetly I have not had chronic issues with this.

I’d also reccommend some soothing music or ‘spiritual’ works on cd, such as Eckhart Tolle as a reminder of how your thoughts can be managed for optimum well being.

I also highly recommend hypnosis and learning self hypnosis techniques.

A certified medical hypnotherapist can do amazing things for you.

I just completed a 7 week program for self improvement, creative resourcing and to maintain abstinence from an on again/off again smoking habit.

I feel GREAT!

Best to you! :-)

Absolutely!

I’m thinking it would be hard to do yoga after an attack hits, but maybe as a preventative therapy it might work. After an attack hits it’s got to be tough to get into a yoga focus.

Part of yoga is about remembering that you are a spirit-based entity and most yoga sessions end with a bit of reflection on this kind of connection to the world around us. So it frequently creates a state of mind that is antithetical to anxiety.

Yes, it will help. Tremendously. Also try jungian therapy and breathing exercises. Remember that this does not happen all of the sudden but will lessen the effects of panic and anxiety over time. I used to have a really hard time, especially post war. I now go about my day mostly without interruption.

Yes. The breathing helps regulate oxygen, since most panic attacks create strange breathing patterns, and the focus on the poses takes your mind off your worries and onto how to do a pose. It’s the same idea as counting to five on the inhale and then again on the exhale – it’s just a few seconds where your mind is on something else.

I think it would because it Really makes you sleep deeper.

No.

Bummer.

Beginning Bikram Yoga helped me quit anti-depressants long ago. (of course you know i’m on them again, but it’s different now)

I’m sure it would help, but when I was having them I found relief in a book by Claire Weekes called something like Hope and Help for your Nerves. Now she has a website of her own. It was like a miracle for me, it taught me how to cope and not to fear. And for me when the fear of them dissipated, the occurrences decreased to nonexistent. I would suggest you buy the book, what do you have to lose except a few bucks!

I don’t know about yoga, but the breathing techniques are similar to TM, which helped my late wife immensely with her PTSD.

The only thing I know about yoga is Yoga X in the P90X program (which I think is difficult by the way). But my personal experience has been that most negative emotions (anxiety, depression, anger etc) are neutralized by exercise.