Wellness Works NZ
  • Welcome
  • Buteyko Method
    • Asthma & Emphysema
    • Allergies, Hayfever, Sinusitis
    • Snoring & Sleep Apnoea
    • Anxiety, panic, worry & stress...
    • Blocked nose, Breathlessness
    • Hypertension - High Blood Pressure
    • Sports & Exercise Performance
    • Children
  • Success Coaching
    • Why would I work with a success coach?
    • Wellness Works Weight Reduction Programme
  • Information & First Consultation...
    • Organic whole-food supplement
    • Iodine in New Zealand
    • Wellness Works 'White Gold' unprocessed sea salt
  • About us
  • Contact
    • Privacy policy, values & purpose & terms of trade
  • Wellness Works blog

Anxiety, panic, worry & stress...

When we become anxious or worried, our palms may become sweaty, our muscles tense and our mind and emotions become totally focussed on the anxiety-causing event. Another physiological change in our bodies at this time is an increase in the rate and depth of breathing. We enter what is termed the 'Fight or Flight' state and this is a normal response to stress.
In a person with a normal anxiety response, once the anxiety-causing event has passed the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems return the body to normal physiological baselines
If a chronic state of hyperventilation exists (that is, if we breathe more than physiologically required all or much of the time) then this will trigger changes in the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems, producing a chronic state of anxiety. We may feel as though we are in a permanent state of 'Fight or Flight' and have a permanently elevated level of anxiety and worry
Hyperventilation and anxiety and panic form a vicious circle, one leading to the other. The process may be initiated from either end. Some will experience anxiety and panic, which then leads to hyperventilation -- others will hyperventilate, leading to feelings of rising anxiety and/or panic. One feeds the other in an increasing spiral
The Buteyko Method acts like a circuit breaker, teaching people how to reduce acute anxiety producing hyperventilation, so reducing the resultant anxiety and panic. It also teaches participants how to retrain their breathing back to a normal level with the result that they no longer have to live constantly in the 'Fight or Flight' state. Their body is then able to return to normal after cessation of the anxiety-causing event and their condition ceases to be chronic

Wellness Works
Health as it ought to be
Book your initial consultation today: 03 4090 736

Wellness Works...Health as it ought to be