Panic Attacks – Treatment – Yoga For Panic Attacks

November 19, 2009 by Jeffery  
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Panic Attacks are episodes of extreme anxiety when when your brain
sends out stimulation to your sympathetic system without any apparent
cause. This causes the symptoms of racing heart, tightening of
chest,difficulty in breathing, sweating, extreme nervousness etc.

Since the all the physical symptoms are related to the stimulation of
your sympathetic system, it makes sense to try and inhibit this system
for the treatment of panic attacks. Also, during the phases between
the the attacks, the threshold of the sympathetic system is also
lowered (meaning that the bomb has a very small fuse – takes very
little stimulation to set it off). Thus by depressing the sympathetic
system, the threshold for the panic attacks also increases thus
preventing another potentia attack.

Now, for depressing the sympathetic system various drugs are available
in the market, such as propanolol, which lead to the prevention of
further panic attack. While these drugs do provide instant
gratification, these are only for symptomatic treatment – that is they
cure the symptoms but not the root cause. Also drugs have multiple
side effects and do not have any long term benefits.

This is where we start discussing the role of Yoga in panic attack
treatment. Yoga is basically a set of exercises which in some as yet
unknown way have purportedly led to the treatment of many diseases.
The Yoga for panic attacks has a simple and straightforward mechanism
- it depresses the sympathetic system by change in your body’s nervous
system firing rates and probably through hormonal changes as well.
Thus over the long term your sympathetic system slowly stabilizes.
Thus you have fewer number of panic attacks and the panic disorder
component also get cured as a secondary effect of lowered number of
panic attacks and increased self confidence.

If you are sick of drugs that you take for your panic attacks, and are
in search of alternative therapies you should try yoga.The only
problem is that having a personal instructor is pretty expensive. So
if you are short on resources, you should try out an e-course of yoga
at The International Yogalyam.

If you are reading to enhance your knowledge about panic attacks then
go ahead and visit this blog :http://panicattackss.blogspot.com/.

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