Stress is any change which our nervous system has to adapt to and the key to that is having enough energy to deal with the stress. Breathing practices are the easiest ways to raise our energy. Stress generally creates an imbalance in most people. If someone has one anxiety disorder, that is easier to cure than several. Many patients have several anxiety disorders and often other things such as depression and substance abuse.

If a person has generalized anxiety disorder, then it will be very easier to treat, whereas if they have obsessive compulsive disorder, or post traumatic stress disorder, will require more intensive treatment. If you have decided to do the breathing practices to reduce the anxiety disorders, you will have to learn more about them because there are many types of breathing practices. Changing the pattern of breathing can change the state of your mind. It can even change the way your thoughts are going and help with anxiety.

So, by doing certain breath practices, it is possible to turn off the worry activity of the mind and certain breath practices rapidly reduce anxiety or agitation. Therapists are advised to begin learning about these breathing practices. Most therapists attend the seminars and training sessions themselves before they can teach the breathing practices to their patients. The therapists need to understand the different types of breathing practices and learn what to apply best for their practice.

For the therapists, there is an excellent book named “How to use herbs, nutrients and yoga for mental health care. This book is written to teach the therapists what breath practices are most suitable to their patients and how to use them safely and effectively. Before teaching the breathing practices, it is recommended that the therapists master the art of the breathing practices and then try to teach the practices to their patients. Controlled breathing is an excellent anxiety therapy.

In this way, the therapists will understand how they affect ones mind and emotional state, and also to understand what obstacles can arise when doing them. Most of the breathing practices may take just 15 to 20 minutes and after performing those breathing practices, the person who was in the excited or anxious state will feel relaxed and will not want to take the medications which he or she normally took when they had a panic or anxiety attack.

Most patients who are on the medications for the anxiety attacks don’t have the confidence on the breathing practices. It is a challenge to all the therapists to convince their patients about the good effects of the breathing practices. There are some immediate benefits that people suffering from anxiety attacks can experience. Breathing practices is also very helpful for patients who are suffering from sleep disorders. In fact, with the breathing practices, the patients can put themselves to sleep without having to take any strong medications.

To gain maximum benefit, a person needs to practice the breathing practices on a daily basis. It is really important for the therapists to understand and believe how the breathing practices work. The therapist needs to encourage and reinforce their patients to do these breathing practices on a daily benefits. Any treatment for anxiety disorders has some risks and so does the breathing practices. If the patients are suffering from some bipolar disorder, then the therapist must not allow the patient to do the breathing practices.

Patients with seizure disorders also need to be very careful with the breathing practices. There are more and more people who are doing the breathing practices to reduce their anxiety or panic attacks. One major point to be noted here is that most people have very limited knowledge of the breathing practices and they try out just one type of breathing practice and they are satisfied about it. The patients need to go out and explore the various types of breathing practices that are available to reduce the panic or anxiety attacks.

Patients with post traumatic stress disorder or patients who have panic attacks, it is important to modify the breathing techniques so that they don’t trigger some underlying mental condition. In the medical arena, there is nothing very new in terms of the medication for anxiety disorders. The anxiety medication are doing a good job of controlling the anxiety attacks. Anxiety medication are:

o    Expensive

o    Habit forming

o    Injurious to health in the long run