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let’s talk about how to stop a panic

attack if you have them

you’re going to be very happy you’re

watching this video i’m going to show

you how to put yourself back in control

over the situation because in a panic

attack there’s an intense fear and it’s

a feeling of you’re out of control here

are some symptoms hyperventilating

sweating

dizziness palpitations a lump in the

throat or you feel like you’re

suffocating

your pulse rate starts to go up your

heart starts to pound

chest pain and there’s quite a few other

symptoms now what’s actually fascinating

about a panic attack is that all the

symptoms

are identical to another condition

called respiratory

alkalosis

this is a situation where the ph of your

lungs is too

alkaline

hyperventilation

sweating dizziness palpitations lump in

the throat high pulse rate heart

pounding and chest pain they’re the

exact same

symptoms so that’s pretty strange right

why do you have these symptoms over here

panic attack

are identical to this other condition

right here

to understand what’s going beyond behind

the scenes there’s something i need to

teach you

there is an effect called the bohr

effect b-o-h-r

bor comes from someone’s name christian

bohr he was a danish physiologist and i

think it was 1904

he made an observation which still

stands right now in order for oxygen to

bind and be released in the blood okay

the hemoglobin

you need

co2 okay

if there’s too much oxygen and not

enough co2 the oxygen will not be

released from the blood in fact check

this out 80

of oxygen is returned to the lungs

undelivered but here you are trying to

breathe oxygen right because you’re in a

panic mode all this oxygen is going

through the lungs it’s going through the

body and it’s coming back to the lungs

and you’re exhaling

oxygen eighty percent of the oxygen

because the oxygen for some reason

cannot be released and in normal lungs

when you have normal oxygen and

sufficient co2 we get this release of

oxygen from the hemoglobin hemoglobin is

just the part of the blood that’s

protein that helps you carry and deliver

oxygen it’s like a transport system for

oxygen and so

when you don’t have enough co2

you get air hunger you’re trying to get

more oxygen right that’s called

hyperventilation and then what are you

going to do you’re going to over breathe

right you’re going to breathe more and

more and guess what you’re going to get

worse you’re actually going to be

suffocating i mean just think about when

a person hyperventilates they actually

end up passing out or better yet let’s

say you have a party and you’re the

person that has to blow up all the

balloons right what happens when you

start blowing up all these balloons you

feel very very dizzy you feel like

you’re faint you’re going to pass out

and that’s because you’re trying to get

too much air

so

oxygen is unavailable unless there’s

enough co2 we think of co2 being a waste

product but it also has a very important

function to help you release

oxygen from your blood so you can

breathe so what causes respiratory

alkalosis

too much oxygen but it’s unavailable

right you it’s another term for this is

oxygen toxicity oxygen can become toxic

if you get too much in the presence of

carbon dioxide deficiency so how can we

use this information to pull ourselves

out of a panic attack

well

which one of these conditions can we

control can we control sweating no not

really how about dizziness palpitations

lump in your throat

high pulse rate no you can’t control any

of these except your breathing okay

so by controlling your breathing which

i’m going to show you

you can

get rid of all of these symptoms

let me explain so by controlling your

breathing in a certain way

you can resolve this whole thing and

very rapidly pull yourself out of this

stress or flight or fight

mode

okay so this is what you’re going to do

number one

you’re going to start to nose breathe

right no longer breathe through your

mouth start breathing through your nose

what is this going to do it’s going to

start to increase co2

co2 is a bronchial relaxer it relaxes

the lungs it allows for the oxygen to

finally go back into your lungs also

when you breathe through your nose you

increase

it’s called nitric oxide which also

gives you a smooth muscle relaxation

effect okay so it starts to relax the

respiratory centers

all right next thing is to slow down

your breathing okay so we can get some

more co2

so we can switch from here to here it’s

going to start to allow you to breathe

much better all right number three

start breathing from your diaphragm so

if you put your hand on your chest okay

and your stomach

we want to avoid breathing from your

chest so when you breathe from your

stomach not your chest you’re affecting

the diaphragm

and the diaphragm is connected to

a part of the

it’s called the parasympathetic nervous

system that is

rest and digest it’s going to start to

relax you all right so breathe through

your nose

start slowing down the breathing

and start breathing through your stomach

or the diaphragm number four make sure

your breath is soft and gentle we’re

trying to

relax the body we’re trying to allow a

perfect balance of oxygen to co2 so you

can get maximum oxygen so you don’t have

too much or you have don’t have too

little this is why in a panic attack the

timing

is also important too because a lot of

times the exhalation breathing out is

not the same as the inhalation

so you might find that your

your exhalation is too quick so if you

start to

balance out the inhalation with the

exhalation you’re going to do much

better and you can even just count

breathe in one

two three

through the nose

breathe out

one two three maybe four

so it’s going to be about i don’t know

between three to four seconds in

and then three to four seconds

out but we’re going to calm down the

breathing all this is going to pull you

out of this panic attack very very fast

and if you can do this outside where

there’s more space you do not want to

get yourself into very small spaces

because there’s just not enough space

and when you’re in a panic attack

everything is kind of collapsing in on

you you feel like controlling your body

is just suffocating so with this

technique we’re just balancing the

oxygen with the co2 and when you do this

guess what

you can pull yourself out of this

condition too the ph of your lungs start

going into balance and become less

alkaline and exactly where they need to

be all right so the next time you have a

panic attack try this and then comment

down below how it worked for you now if

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